Are you dumb, or are you just anxious and sheltered? Your sentence about grad school makes me think it's the latter. There are a lot of people like you in the world of academia.

Likely behavior for Gary Busey

Just picked this one up today! I'm looking forward to reading it. I love their movies.

In college, I worked in our theater department's box office. My job mostly involved taking orders over the phone during the day and helping with the ticket window or concessions booth during nighttime shows, but occasionally we would get walk-up customers at the window during the day too. Mostly students and their parents or professors.

One day, two equally short and equally pot-bellied men walked up to the window. Clearly father and son - one looked to be in his 70s and the other in his 40s. They were dressed like a couple characters out of a mob movie - fedoras, sunglasses, gold rings, the works. And they spoke like it too. When it came time to pay for their tickets, the younger guy whipped out a HUGE roll of bills. If it weren't a random weekday morning and they weren't clearly related, I would have sworn they were doing a bit or method acting. I still wonder who they were and why they were going to see a college production of Legally Blonde.

Beautiful. It's on my bucket list to do a walking trip in Scotland someday.

I do think he writes way too many books to not be using AI, but he doesn't, or at least, he had that quantity before AI writing was a thing

IIRC Patterson only does the outlines for most of his books, then hands them off to various ghostwriters. It's a fairly common practice among pulp thriller/mystery/romance authors, or at least it was pre-AI.

Succession is a great show if you love to pick apart dialogue and character dynamics, but it's one of the worst shows to watch if you're looking for any type of visible action lol

I came to comment the same. I love mid century nostalgia and social/historical commentary. Love the cast in everything else I've seen them in. Love dramas where it's mostly people in rooms talking. But I must have started Mad Men 5 times and never got past the first few episodes. It just never hooked me.

I was a teen during the peak avengers era and loved them then. Nowadays there's maybe 1 superhero movie every 2-3 years that I actually watch and enjoy. It's amazing how quickly the genre has gone the way of the western.

Same, I know almost the entire discography of The Fray by heart atp 😅

In German, 'schwül' is a way to describe the weather when it's muggy outside. On the other hand, 'schwul' is how you would describe a friend of Dorothy.

I almost downvoted thinking you were being lewd only to realize you're 100% right lmao. wtf is that photoshop job