I’m so old, I remember [insert movie- or pop culture-related ephemera]…
I’m so old, I remember when you’d get scowled at by the Blockbuster clerk if you hadn’t rewound a video you were returning…
talk amongst yourselves
what are your “favorite” weasel words?
I am particularly enraged by “PATRIOT Act,” which was anything but patriotic, and which set us on the path of “Homeland Security” and “Total Information Awareness”…
how easily do you identify with opposite-sex protagonists in movies (or TV, or books)?
I’m particularly interested to hear from men about whatever limited experience they might have being forced to identity with a female hero.
what do you think will be some unexpected side effects of global warming?
I’d never heard, for instance, about a potential impact on airline travel: commercial airliners may not operate safely in extreme heat.
how much national cultural protectionism is feasible in a wired world?
Would you want your country to protect you from too much entertainment from another culture (such as Hollywood)?
Edward Snowden: traitor or hero?
Or maybe he’s just a pawn, or a CIA puppet, or playing some other role that makes him complicit in an enormous bit of propaganda or security theater…
in which movies is it completely obvious that the entire cast is having a ball?
The one that comes instantly to mind for me is Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven…
what’s the rudest or most annoying personal question or comment you’ve received?
Probably the one that annoys me the most is the generic assumption that I’m married. Because, as a I woman, naturally I must be married.
which celebrities would survive which kind of apocalypse?
Does Matthew McConaughey’s full-body drawl doom him in the fast-zombie uprising? Will Ryan Gosling survive global warming because he’s totally hot already?
must we resign ourselves to living in a total-surveillance state?
I don’t want to think this is the case, but when even the Constitutional scholar U.S. President is okay with it, I’m not seeing any other options…
