Directed by Ben Falcone. With Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Peter Dinklage, Ella Anderson. A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
This was pretty god-awful. It had a little bit of heart and a cast which I’ve seen do far better in other pieces, but only about two half-decent jokes. Even the joke of her with her leg up on the wall with self-tanning creme was just trying to milk the same joke from Bridesmaids.
Watched on widescreen television from DVR from cable recording sometime about a year ago. It was languishing on the DVR for ages and I probably should have just deleted it.
With Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines. Chip and Joanna Gaines take clients Kimberly and Blake Batson on a tour through three houses in Waco, TX. The young newlyweds run the 'Common Grounds' coffee shop and are looking for a home close to their business.
With Chip Gaines, Joanna Gaines. Chip and Joanna Gaines are helping client Dr. Marla Hendricks find a home in Waco for her and her new husband. These baby boomers fell in love later in life but are young at heart seeking a home that will fit their lifestyle.
Directed by Alan J. Pakula. With Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades. A police officer uncovers the real identity of his house-guest, an I.R.A. terrorist in hiding.
Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. With Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Blake Jenner, Kyra Sedgwick. High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.
I’d started this a week or so ago and hadn’t seen the whole thing, so I came back and finished it off. Some interesting snark here on the lives of teens… I wasn’t surprised to see the production company behind it once I’d seen the film. Some generally sharp writing, but I was left feeling a bit flat at the end.
Directed by Brian De Palma. With Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
I’d delved into this last month, but came back and re-watched several parts including the end. Reminds me what a product of the 80’s this film was. Very indulgent, long, and despite the iconic end, it was not as awesome as it really should have been given the talents involved.
Depending on where you’re syndicating to and why, one could consider leaving some of these default sidebar widgets in their installation. Some folks, Aaron Davis comes quickly to mind, add titles (sometimes with emoji) to their notes, replies, RSVPs, likes, favorites, etc., which often are defined as posts which technically don’t need titles. Doing this certainly takes some extra time and work (or coding skill if you’re automating it), but can have the benefit of populating not only those widgets, but also adding a somewhat logical title to RSS feed readers and other tools which have been trained over 20 years to want titles on everything.
Recent Posts and Comments widget displays on Aaron Davis’ website
If you have the courage, certainly go title-less as it’s a whole lot easier, but there are other options if you like those sorts of touches.
Keep in mind that you can click on the “Details” and the “Author” tabs in Post Kinds to add all sorts of additional data to flesh out the reply context for your posts. In particular many posts don’t include metadata for the Author details, but when you’re doing a quote post, it can add some additional richness to your context.
As an example, I modified the Author data for this particular post so that it shows Dr. McVerry created it and included both a photo avatar of him as well as a link to his website.
If you have some coding capabilities and want to go all-in on gaining more control over the reply contexts that Post Kinds allows, I’ve written up an outline for doing so. (I’d recommend waiting to play with it after class is over though!)
A short video on how to send a manual webmention to a WordPress site that's using the Webmention plugin.
WordPress sites also have a separate visual endpoint that can be used manually. They’re typically found at http://example.com/wp-json/webmention/1.0/endpoint.
Directed by J.J. Abrams. With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy. The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
I’ve seen this in the theater and at least one other time on cable. Always entertaining.
Watched from Amazon Prime on big screen television over Fire Stick over the span of the last couple of nights.
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. With Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke. A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.
I’m never quite sure how I get pulled into things on television sometimes. Did get a bit of paperwork done at the same time though…
Directed by Stephen Frears. With Hugh Grant, Alex Jennings, Ben Whishaw, Chris Ashby. In 1965 Jeremy Thorpe, a successful Liberal MP and in line for the party's leadership, tells his friend Peter Bessell how, four years earlier, he met the handsome stable boy Norman Josiffe. Jeremy takes the homeless youngster in to repay an act of kindness and a sexual relationship follows. However Norman feels used, threatening to expose Jeremy, and Peter is sent to pacify him. Whilst ...
Took quite a while to get into this, but it finally started getting interesting at the end. Wish I had known it was just a three episode series/arc–I probably would have had much more patience with this episode if I had. As it was, I kept wondering what a weak episode it was.
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