Bite Me, Tony

So far, 2024 has not gone according to plan and now we are in the midst of a semi-shitstorm; semi because it pales in comparison to what many of our friends are going through  but still... shitstorm . To help put things into perspective getting old really sucks it just really  really  does. There is no point in sugarcoating this fact even if aging is sucking less for us than others we know.  A couple of weeks ago, just to remind me that I was, indeed, getting old, my blood pressure tablet that I'd begun taking a month or so earlier began to fuck with me. And by fuck with me, I don't mean a leisurely roll in the hay. I mean hard, hard fucking with no lube and no foreplay nay not even a kiss. At one point, I actually thought I was having a heart attack in the shower. Fortunately, it turns out, I was not having a heart attack. No, it was the massive white blood pressure capsule, the size and shape of which suggests that it could conceivably be put into service as a sexual implem

With his ultraviolent, profanity-laden, testosterone-infused bro-fests, Guy Ritchie has largely built a successful career directing reliably smart and funny projects that usually center around groups of guys (wise and not) involved in criminal enterprises of one sort or another. Forget about Swept Away , the godforsaken Sherlock Holmes misfires, The Man from U.N.C.L.E . and, the needless and charm-free  Aladdin . Instead, acquaint (or reacquaint) yourself with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels , Snatch , Revolver ,  RocknRolla and 2019's  The Gentlemen , a direct movie precursor to the new Netflix series,  The Gentlemen .  Set in the same universe as the movie, The Gentlemen loosely follows that film's trajectory while introducing an entirely new set of characters to spread chaos and mayhem throughout the not-so-staid countryside. Theo James is well-cast as British peer and former soldier, Eddie Horniman, who, unexpectedly, inherits both a title and a considerable amount