Odds and Ends

Cleaning up the links I didn't post earlier in the week.

This article begins "You may be trying to forget this is real and happening, but indeed, a release date has been set." Toy Story 4. Lasseter says it's a romantic comedy and has no ties to the first three. The Playlist notes:

Not really. They've wrung every possible tear out of the Poignancy of Childhood angle, and in the recent shorts the characters have been acting on their own, interacting less with their owner. (Except for "Toy Story of Terror," which we'll ignore because it ruins my conclusion.) Better to go off in a toy-centric direction.

Elsewhere in Hollywood: Of course there's a remake of "IT," because . . . I don't know why. Some details from CinemaBlend:

Other than that, take it to the bank.

The book is set in the 50s and 80s; if they make it modern, and the adults who return to the town to beat IT have smartphones, it'll change everything. Instead of seeing Pennywise down the sewer, he'll pop up on their lockscreen.

Speaking of which, here's a fun game they had in arcades back in the early 60s:

No surprises, but fun to see it codified.

UNFOLLOW How to tell a writer is just getting lazy. Verge: "Rand Paul swiped his new logo from Tinder."

The silver lining in giving Tinder a monopoly on the two-pronged flame symbol is that you can say things like "Rand Paul stole his new logo from Tinder."

This is the Tinder logo:

This is Paul's logo:

BENEVOLENT MURDER As BoingBoing puts it:

I don't know if they're bowing down to the Raven Queen who will eventually use them to bring woe on her tormentors, or whether the crows are softening her up so she'll help them commit some nefarious deed. Either way, if I was a parent, and crows took an interest in my child, I would move three states away.