This week's conversation starter

You: "Oh, hey, LimeyG, so how was your interview with the guy from Newsweek?"

The Ten Most Prophetic Sci-Fi Films

American discourse has now reached the point in which even Popular Mechanics is publishing lists. It's not a terrible list by any means, since it does include the all-time classic The Running Man, featuring assorted governors and comedy POWs. But where's Idiocracy? Where's Rollerball? Where's 1984? Really, isn't everybody becoming stupider while corporations get more powerful and governments tell increasingly bigger lies?

Moreover, none of those movies star Ethan Hawke.

What y'all missed this week

1) We were forced to sit near the bar because a group of beeyootiful people had reserved (with actual "RESERVED" signs) our table and our default table.

2) After much setting-up of Macs and reconfiguring of files, some chick in a hoodie started projecting footage of hyperrealistic streams and pine trees on the wall.

3) We got free beer. Not good beer, mind you; it was the type of beer one would expect beeyootiful people to order: Miller High Life.

My Name

For those unfamiliar with the Spanish language. My name means "the."

A Declaration of Purpose

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to begin thoughtlessly sharing their ideas with the world at large...where was I?

Yes, my purpose in creating TNPP is mostly to have a record of our Mortimer bets. I still don't know if I have to give someone a dollar for predicting Romney would be our next president.

Anyway, I just had a Manhattan and it seemed like a good idea at the time.