this and “by choice, man!” were what immediately sprung to my mind

My greatest joy with the youngs and Chuck Berry is playing them both “Johnny B Goode” and “My ding-a-ling”

Or put more briefly - Moore made it clear at every turn that these are pathetic people who may well make everything they touch worse. Snyder can’t get past that they’re just so cool, man.

The love scene gets a hot & sexy treatment when the book makes it clear that this is the only way Dan can even get it up - he’s got to go do his underwear pervert act for a while before he can perform.

In the book the alley scene serves to show how badly out of the game and out of shape they are. They end the fight winded and sort of amazed they’ve managed to pull it out. Snyder turns it into this glossy sequence where they’re still glorious.

The problem is exactly that it sticks so close except in a number of important bits. The two that always stick out to me are Dan and Laurie’s fight with the thugs in the alley and their post-rescue screwing in the owl ship.

“Naw, naw! Nawt dem bees! Nawt de bees!”

Ben Smith would be a step up, actually. Her husband is Ben Domenech, past plagiarizer. Presumably because what he writes himself is even more loathsome.

Do they have to have won? If you’ve never sampled Astor Piazzolla you’re missing out.

I like Phantom Menace a lot more these days primarily because it enabled Auralnauts. youtu.be/WSCm8yAxBr8?...

Pity. We were just there last week.

“It compiled, what do you mean it doesn’t work?”

Probably a Twitter adaptation from when they were deemphasizing posts with links.

This also assumes she’s not leaving to go on some wingnut welfare where they’re staking out an anti-trump (or more like a “Trump has failed us let’s continue the mission”) stance on some media nonsense.

Unless you’re beyond certain it’s not a creeping variety, avoid it like the plague. Not only is it uncontrollable, it’s FAST. I left town to get married and returned 7 days later. There were new shoots in the middle of the yard that were over 3’ tall.