As the #Aquaman trailer debuts, can we take a minute to appreciate the superhuman patience of Jason Momoa?
The dude's last five years must have felt *glacial.*
Momoa must have felt great in 2010: he got cast in CONAN (2011) and the first season of GAME OF THRONES...
but CONAN didn't work and he was promptly killed off in GoT, and then he did a bunch of forgettable stuff
Momoa didn't really capitalize on his GAME OF THRONES (2011) sex symbol status until he was cast as Aquaman for BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN, which didn't come out until 2016.
AND HE WASN'T ALLOWED TO EVEN TALK ABOUT GETTING CAST IN IT FOR LIKE A YEAR!
So then BvS comes out and Momoa's confirmed as Aquaman in a three-second cameo
And then Momoa has to wait another year for JUSTICE LEAGUE to come out so people can actually see him *playing* the part
And then Momoa has to wait ANOTHER year for his greatest casting victory to actually translate to status as a leading man in a blockbuster motion picture.
Jason Momoa has been waiting for his moment in the sun as a leading man since he got cast as Aquaman, which according to his Wikipedia page was in June of 2014.
Four years, people. *LITERALLY FOUR YEARS.*
THE MAN WENT OFF AND DID CANADIAN TV WHILE HE WAITED
I'm looking forward to the movie now, but even if I weren't I'd have to give serious respect to Jason Momoa for patience.
If I were him, I'd be down to like one fingernail by now.
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Yesterday was the 45th anniversary of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL. Four girls were murdered: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, & Carol McNair.
McNair was 11; the others were 14.
The FBI identified Thomas Blanton, Herman Cash, Robert Chambliss, and Bobby Cherry as the perpetrators, but they weren't tried for years and Cash died without having been charged. (For his part, Chambliss blamed Gary Rowe, an FBI informant.)
The perps in question were KKK -- specifically, UKA, United Klans of America, but even more specifically they were members of a small but even more radical splinter group called the Cahaba Boys.
sudden realization: there is an ADL or SPLC intern whose job is just keeping track of which white nationalists guest on which other white nationalists' podcasts
Jesus, that poor bastard
Oh hey that joke sounds like as good an excuse as any for an actualfa update
For new readers: "actualfa" is the term I use to distinguish people who get called fascist but are not from those who are actually uh
Haven't done one of these in a while because let's face it, most of 'em aren't doing anything too interesting, but the big trend appears to be consolidation and reorganization
A pleasure to head to Hollywood for the unveiling of Weird Al Yankovic’s star on the Walk of Fame today.
The great Dr. Demento was on hand to speak, as was only proper. The second introductory speaker surprised me: Thomas Lennon, best known for playing Lt. Dangle on RENO 911, who shared a delightful story about how he and Al met.
RENO 911's Thomas Lennon and Weird Al Yankovic met in Staples.
LENNON. "Excuse me, are you Weird Al Yankovic?"
AL. "Yes. Are you Lt Dangle?"
LENNON. "I am. Should we just agree to be friends for life?"
AL. "Okay."
And they shook on it. And *actually became friends for life.*