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First: you write extremely well,
Second: for whatever it’s worth, I concluded that Billions is written by solipsistic assholes who took their stylistic cue from a Dennis Miller standup set. “Hey, Ma! Look how smart I am.” Brevity is the soul of wit and this approach quickly gets boring. Truly smart people need not show off. People just know that they are smart. I’m reminded of the movie I think was titled Limitless, where they showed us things they thought smart people do, but do not actually. Hand Alexander a Rubic’s cube and he’ll cut it in half with his sword.
I stuck with Billions because I liked a few of its actors, not because of its alleged erudition.
Top it? Question whether any will equal it.
Ne plus ultra
We all need to take the hint and find sinewhere else to go.
Really? You don’t have the balls to write “faggot”? Are you afraid of logs for a fire?
And yet you name yourself Nico’s Nose.
You want to rethink that “I’m not an idiot” declaration?
Yeah, it’s a bad movie for children. What kind of parent would set lower standards for his children than he does for himself?
I love you, Otter. I find it hard to stomach the crap I’m reading here.
If Clint fucking Eastwood says that he thinks Cruise will be the biggest movie star in history, you better believe that I believe him. Who knows more about that than Clint? As for Sheen, I recently spent 10 months in hospital with mostly morons for roommates, so I wound up being exposed to a lot of 2 1/2 Men bullshit. HL Mencken, 1 of my heroes, wrote that “Nobody ever went broke by underestimating the taste of the American public.” THIS dung heap reflected the humor I was writing at age 12, when my nuts came on-line. Puerile and dumber than Republicans in a whorehouse, no wonder this was a hit. It takes a very special kind of homeschooled stupid to nominate Sheen as a peer to Cruise.
I did not know that. Thank you for correcting me. I was an undergraduate English major at the time. All my research told me that Eric Siegel, a professor at Harvard, wrote the book and then wrote the script when Hollywood optioned it. The story is crap either way. “What do you say about a 20 year-old girl who died”!? How about, “She’s dead. ‘Less you’re a necrophile, time to move on.”‘I know perfectly well that an author wants to make the first line of every story a “grabber.” That’s what they teach us to do, and it makes sense; but wouldn’t “I started to cry as I was fucking her corpse” been more of a “grabber”?
I apologize for having been flippant with you before. Please forgive me.
I envy you! We’re supposed to be at 48 here in Boston—but at least with no snow!
Yeah, but with an Eastern European education, which is a joke.