I cut Dylan's hair, but not with any stylistic goal beyond making it shorter. I just run the clippers over his head and hope it doesn't look too much like he gets his hair cut by his Mom. (And if it does, eh, he's only one and a half. By the time he cares what his hair looks like he'll be old enough to sit still for a barber.)

Joy lost the last page of her book. No need to say here how insane that makes me, I think?

ZOMGYES. I started twitching as soon as he picked the book up, but I didn't feel actual physical pain until he tore out that page. And did you notice how deliberately we were shown that it was a page with real text on it? SO MEAN.

I am waiting patiently for the Dick Whitman mystery to resolve itself.

The shift to LA reminded me of the move to Nevada in The Godfather Part II, where there was a very established look that carried over from the world of the first movie, and all of a sudden everything was Bright! and Shiny! and New! and Modern!

Totally!

Oh! And one more bit of rambling that I forgot. What do we think happened to Kinsey in Mississippi? I don't think he got beaten up in the riot (the wrong kind of anvilly, plus he would've been very carefully standing back from the truncheons). But does he magically come back less of a dick? Or did someone on the bus finally get sick of him and smack him, and he comes back and claims he was beaten down in the riot? (I'm inclined to think the latter, but my respect for Paul is the kind that is not.)

Joy lost the last page of her book. No need to say here how insane that makes me, I think?

I forgot about this. This is when I decided that Don was evil. That's so SHITTY. I mean, I knew that he was self absorbed, but damn! (I also had a moment of John Glover love, when he played the devil in Brimstone and there was a scene with him in a bookstore, ripping out the last pages of books, and you could see that they were in the "Mystery" section. EVIL.)

And did you notice how deliberately we were shown that it was a page with real text on it?

Yes. And it was the very last page! I was hoping there would be a blank page at the end, but Weiner hates me that way.

(And he'd probably even check that the paperback edition available at the time did not, in fact, have extra pages bound into it. That is the extent to which he hates me that way.)

If you pause that frame and zoom in, the text on the page is probably something to the effect of "MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! TAKE THAT, BOOK-LOVING FANS! Love, Weiner"

I told Beau that if someone did that to me, I would lose my mind and give that person a beat down.

why not the title page of the book?

Because the last page makes it less obvious the book has been mutilated and will be discovered long after he's gone. Except in my house; I read the end first.

Because the last page makes it less obvious the book has been mutilated and will be discovered long after he's gone. Except in my house; I read the end first.

You think it was that deliberate? I thought it was just Don not giving a shit.

Not really. Just looking at other possibilities in the generic. I'm totally of the opinion that Don is one of the most self-centered pricks I've ever met. Yet, you can see his unhappiness with so many things, but he can't stop being the jerk he is. I thought I saw him pause just a second before he tore that last page out, but that could be my wish fullfillment that Don would finally get a clue and quit being a total ass.