I learned how to drink champagne a while ago. But the way I like to drink champagne is I like to make what we call a Montana Cooler, where you buy a case of champagne and you take all the bottles out, and you take all the cardboard out, and you put a garbage bag inside of it, then you put all the bottles back in and then you cover it with ice, and then you wrap it up and you close it. And that will keep it all cold for a weekend and you can drink every single bottle. And the way I like to drink it in a big pint glass with ice. I fill it with ice and I pour the champagne in it, because champagne can never be too cold. And the problem people have with champagne is they drink it and they crash with it, because the sugar content is so high and you get really dehydrated. But if you can get the ice in it, you can drink it supremely cold and at the same time you're getting the melting ice, so it's like a hydration level, and you can stay at this great level for a whole weekend. You don't want to crash. You want to keep that buzz, that bling, that smile.

Bill Murray, in an interview with Daze Digital

Don’t Look Up feels a much better fit for the reality we’re actually living through. There’s no villainous authoritarian ending democracy; as in our world, American democracy in the film has already been smothered under the weight of oligarch money and corporate profit-chasing. There’s no secret evil conspiracy, at least in the salacious form these Trump-era stories imagined; the villains are a self-obsessed, blinkered elite, and it’s their greed, venality and stupidity that lead them to evil decisions.

Brankko Marcetic, “Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up Captures the Stupidity of Our Political Era

What touches all should be decided by all.

Michael Walzer

Our rage against the machine actually strengthens the machine’s grip on us when it’s packaged in the form of Rage Against the Machine™, a capitalistic product in a universe where that’s the only thing that matters, a pacifying media spectacle among spectacles.

Ryan Zockgraf, “Even Neo Can’t Log Off”

Essentially, it's just one big, slow-moving cattle drive for the entire day for the entire summer, day in day out. And what we're trying to accomplish is regenerating the land, getting our animals full and protecting them from predators.

Ashley Ahearn, “How a Ranch Family Learned to Live with Wolves”

I have a very particular set of administrative skills.

Mission to Zyxx

It’s 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.

Blues Brothers

Polar bears take over an abandoned Arctic weather station.

The Long Winters, “Stupid”

Stupid, you could call it that.
Stupid, but you have no idea
How stupid I would feel
If fifteen years from now I see her
And she says, “Why didn’t it happen between us, stupid?”

Horse kicks tree, farts on dogs, then runs away.

Violent attempted revolutions fail twice as often as non-violent ones. Resorting to violence means you are playing on the enemy’s turf, and he will probably eat you alive. Whereas no matter how many people the army kills, it cannot eliminate a determined non-violent opposition. It takes great patience and huge courage to follow that strategy, but that is actually how non-violent movements win.

Gwynne Dyer, “Burma Resistance: Wrong Way”