Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

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[TiQuinn]

I actually don't care much for most mafia movies. Lots of "film people" don't seem to l think that's a very valid opinion. Meanwhile, it seems perfectly acceptable to turn up noses to animation and horror.

Oh, I totally get it. I think that as a genre it doesn’t have a whole heck of a lot to say but I do think they’re entertaining.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Tangent about mafia movies…

There’s a really good Indian restaurant a few miles from here with truly bizarre decor. The restaurant has 2 dining areas.

The main dining area is painted a golden tan and decorated in Southwestern prints by artists like Bev Doolittle, Peña and Rabbit- mostly horses, Native Americans and the like. Essentially, it’s a visual pun on “Indians”.

The other dining area is painted a deep red, and it’s decorated entirely in movie posters from Goodfellas, The Godfather, Scarface, etc. Why, I cannot fathom.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Tangent about mafia movies…

There’s a really good Indian restaurant a few miles from here with truly bizarre decor. The restaurant has 2 dining areas.

The main dining area is painted a golden tan and decorated in Southwestern prints by artists like Bev Doolittle, Peña and Rabbit- mostly horses, Native Americans and the like. Essentially, it’s a visual pun on “Indians”.

The other dining area is painted a deep red, and it’s decorated entirely in movie posters from Goodfellas, The Godfather, Scarface, etc. Why, I cannot fathom.

Did they take over the locations used by two separate businesses, knock down a wall between them, and call it a day? I've seen some restaurants with strange decor for that reason.

 

[Richards]

I'm in the opposite position of several previous posters: I'm almost 16 years younger than my wife. But they say older-wife/younger-husband marriages have the lowest divorce rate (at least in the US, not sure about worldwide), and we'll be celebrating our 41st anniversary in March....

Johnathan

 

[Thomas Shey]

I'm in the opposite position of several previous posters: I'm almost 16 years younger than my wife. But they say older-wife/younger-husband marriages have the lowest divorce rate (at least in the US, not sure about worldwide), and we'll be celebrating our 41st anniversary in March....

Johnathan

I'll be pretty happy if we make it to our 40th, since among other things, that means I'll have lived past 80...

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Did they take over the locations used by two separate businesses, knock down a wall between them, and call it a day? I've seen some restaurants with strange decor for that reason.

Nope!

As I recall, they’re the first & only business to be in that suite.

 

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[Smackpixi]

...I don't know that I agree with this as phrased.

Look, I've written words. SO MANY WORDS .... about problematic faves, or how to interact with works when you've learned that the creator of the work has done bad things, or how to reconcile the good feelings you have about D&D with the knowledge that D&D contains things that aren't great (and was written by people that didn't always have good views).

But I've also written words. SO MANY WORDS ... about why we need to re-examine popular narratives that take hold about people; for example, I've written about why Lorraine Williams, while hardly perfect, was not deserving of the vitriol directed towards her.

Which means I have good news! I am not writing another giant essay in this thread. But I am going to say the following:

1. Parasocial relationships are a helluva drug.
2. You don't really know other people, even the ones you do know. And the ones you only know from their works or their PR images or a brief interaction? No, you absolutely do not know them.
3. Just like some people have certain "good" images that are not true, others can have "bad" images that aren't true either. Narratives get created- both because narratives are easy to tell, and because our brains want to create them. But people aren't narratives. They are messy, and complicated, and contradictory.
4. In addition, people can, and do, change depending on circumstances and over time.


In a perfect world, more people would understand that when it comes to people we don't actually know ... we don't actually know them. And for famous people, there is a whole industry devoted to building them up AND tearing them down (I assume you've been following the Lively-Baldoni battle, which has exposed how there are firms devoted to pushing good and bad narratives in media and through astroturfing about celebrities).

There are some genuinely good people that are celebrities. There are some genuinely bad people. But most of them are just people- with good and bad.

While I can’t really argue with some people are bad, some are good, and some are just people, a bland statement approved by a dozen for it’s meaninglessness, I was just in the mood caused by the person I earlier posted about earlier yesterday. And the fact that 20% of women, and 5% of men self report having been sexually abused as children. And with much less than 1% of the population ever having been convicted of such a crime, far more of the people you know, famous and not, are really terrible. And that’s just one particular bad thing you can do to children, and just one of the terrible things a person can do, on the list that being good at ping pong or starting a community recycling project cannot erase.

So, I’m sticking with a huge number of people, famous and not, are worse than you know as being true.

 

[Deset Gled]

If more people internalized the Tao of Fagen and Becker, they could avoid so many problems.