I find it amazing that a writer — a writer! — hasn’t told them to edit down the phone message by now.

Even now, they’ve changed the name, but only to Politics.

Which is why at my college it was called Government, instead.

The question is whether positive uses of Advanced Statistics (pace Ted Chiang) cross the 50/50 random chance line.

Too far from the River House.

We are close to opening the broadened I-90 light rail. Not there yet, though — only testing.

520 was rebuilt a few years ago.

So there’s still time to surf Lake Washington (cough).

This strip ran on 1975-03-20. Saigon fell on 1975-04-30, six weeks later.

Polio might be good.

I know I’ll sound alarmist, but I almost want to say smallpox might be wise. (No idea if it’s still available.)

Sorry. @brenttoderian.bsky.social — he’s an urbanist I follow & admire.

Getting reposted by Toderian. Not bad.

March ‘81…. Yeah, I wrote that poem within 3-4 years of that. Something in the air. The Petrov incident (of which we knew nothing) was in Sept ‘83.

Oh, I agree. I’m just saying good will only goes so far when you’re burning money. Tough to make more movies that way, unless you go very small budget/indie. Which Warren has never seemed inclined to do.

Yeah, Beatty hasn’t had a profitable movie after DICK TRACY. He won the Oscar for best director in REDS. Then came ISHTAR, then DICK TRACY. I suspect everyone’s wants to remember REDS as Beatty’s last profitable/“good” movie, and green screen in their minds everything since.

Same here. IMDb says it made $163M globally on a budget of $47M. I was living in LA at the time, had a number of friends in The Industry, and my memory is it was a flop. {shrug} Memories, man. It might be because Beatty followed it with BUGSY, LOVE AFFAIR, and BULWORTH, none of which paid out.

The crazier he gets, the bigger that “if” becomes.

I think ESQUIRE needs to do that pitch meeting.

(pinches nose, throws bottle)

(thinks: wish I’d thought of that.)