Last month, Ben Affleck’s new popcorn thriller, The Accountant 2, hit theaters, nine years after the original delighted audiences. Early reviews were positive, and the Hollywood trade rags reported a $24.5 million opening weekend gross. Millions of Affleck’s fans flocked to their local multiplex to see their favorite number cruncher wrestle with spreadsheets, fight bogus deductions, and clean up the books with style and panache.
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Taxes, with Salt and Lime
Americans are great at taking perfectly serviceable holidays and turning them into excuses for parties. On Super Bowl Sunday, millions of Americans who couldn’t tell you the difference between a safety and a concussion protocol guzzle one-too-many beers with their chicken wings. A month later, on St. Patrick’s Day, millions of Irish-for-a-day drinkers belly up to their favorite fake Irish bar to down pints of Guinness and shots of Jameson. Next on the calendar is Cinco de Mayo, when all those same St. Paddy’s fans become Mexicans for a day to down bottles of Corona and pitchers of margaritas. (We can’t wait to see what the hospitality industry dreams up when they discover Talk Like a Pirate Day lurking on the September calendar.)
𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮… 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤
When 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑠 hit theaters in May 1977, it felt like nothing short of a transmission from the future.
I saw the original 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑠 at one of the now long-gone drive-in theaters near the Sports Arena (now the Pechanga Arena.) Back then, the galaxy felt far, far away.
Today? It’s just another line item in our tech stack.