It's "great to think about" putting a freeway in a tunnel? This is a sick joke, right?

Re: Burying I-5. Yeah not going to happen. But we should consider re-designing it so there are no left lane exit/on ramps plus an express bus only ramp out of the N. end of the tunnel for N. bound traffic that need the regular lanes. Both would work wonders on traffic flow through Downtown.

Spike Jonze: "You really weren't moved by this movie?"

He's so shocked at the very proposal that his work might not be overwhelmingly meaningful for everyone. It betrays the incredible ego below the awkward stumbling persona.

I saw Her over the weekend and loved it. I do think it's a bit of a rorschach movie which I read in a number of different ways. I didn't see it so much as a male fantasy as a male nightmare. He has relationship problems even with his computer.

You don't have to buy I-5 all at once, just allow a couple more developers to use the space above it like the convention center did.

A lid would not allow for significantly sized structures, which need deep foundations. That really limits the value of the space that would be liberated. Reconnecting neighborhoods would be helpful, but it doesn't pencil out without property development.

Just bite the bullet, redesignate 405 as I-5, terminate the old I-5 at Northgate in the north and I-90 in the south (and renumber them as interstate spurs), and tear down everything between. Freight can shift to the train tunnel under the city (for stuff leaving or stopping in the city), or to 405 (if not stopping in the city). People can use Link to get in and out of the city, or street buses for more local transit. For big events like Bumbershoot Link could be free.

Then you reopen all that land to redevelopment. Avoid big parks because we have enough of those already, and focus on housing. Target all the groups that really need housing--low income workforce housing, housing for families (larger 2 and 3 bedroom units), and housing for the currently homeless population. No NIMBYs to complain about what you build.

It's the 21st century. Let's start acting like it.

Is that really racism, maybe they are equally clueless on white history, sad fact is lot of kids don't know history.

Man the racism bar is set low here.

That Jeopardy screen is especially sad because one of the other categories was "Kiwi Fauna". Seriously? You're more confident on your knowledge of kiwi fauna than Black History in your own country? What is there besides kiwis and dodos, anyways?

I was a little worried what I would see clicking the jeopardy photo. The actual picture managed to be less offensive, but far more sad and depressing than I expected.

Or maybe just haven't gotten to that category yet

@ 8 maybe that why they picked it easy

Is it really that uncommon for people to work from left to right in Jeopardy? I feel like I've seen that configuration on the Jeopardy board a lot, no matter the categories.

I concur with @12.

Not only that, but the producers always provide at least a couple categories that'll have personal relevance to at least one of the contestants and so I'd not be surprised to see those also selected first.

I now like Spike Jonze a lot less. Her was incredibly dull as a love story (boy meets girl, they fall in love, they have awkwardness over sex, they break up). It was interesting as a techno thing, as a story of women developing, as a parable of how men are dinosaurs (we only allow women to be our servants, things are fine for us; we allow women to start developing, things are better, we have enriching relationships; we allow women to reach their full potential, we get left behind as sad and unable to keep up). I hate the love story reading. If you want a love story, go and watch a proper one.

What pretension! (Spike Jonze's assertion that Her is not a moving about Falling in Love with Software.)

Ummm. HER IS A MOVIE ABOUT FALLING IN LOVE WITH SOFTWARE!!!!!!!!!!!

I gave up on Spike Jonze after seeing Where the Wild Things Are - it was just so much surface with a really blah core. I think it's always good to see these kind of interviews and remember that people who make are not necessarily wise, or self-secure, or thoughtful.

Regarding the Jeopardy screen, maybe the racism is in the placement of the topic - African-Americans being put at the back of the proverbial Jeopardy bus, as it were... for god sake, they even have to sit behind animals of New Zealand.

I think the Jeopardy shot is actually far more embarrassing and shameful than we are making it out to be. I'm a long-time jeopardy viewer and long-time non-genius and even I have been able to recognize the sorry subset of answers that are at all likely for any given category: The prompt will bluff you with a florid, detail rich description of what seems to be some obscure figure, but the answer is always the mundane Mozart.

For god's sake, go into this category with Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and James Earl Ray on the tip of your tongue and you'll do fine. It takes an extreme amount of ignorance on the topic to fuck the jeopardy version up

For what little this thought is worth: could they be afraid of getting it wrong? I mean not getting a basic Kiwi question...eh. Getting a basic Black History question wrong on national television might have social consequences. Being forever the jerk who didn't know what the Underground Railroad was or that the Emancipation Proclomation left out a good many slaves could be a pain. Probably just a rationalization on my part and probably not any less depressing.

@19-20 - good point. I mean, what if the clue is, "This successful African American actor was not featured prominently in a commercial for the most recent Superbowl, and was subsequently confused with another similarly successful African American actor whom he vaguely resembles, who WAS featured in the Superbowl," and they say, "Who is Morgan Freeman?" It will go all over the internet and suddenly you are the exemplar of racist ignorance in America.

@21 I love Chris Rock!

I guess I'm just too old for anything; I can't read the screen shot. What the hell does the category say?

@23 I had the same problem. Is it really that legible to others?

Shouldn't we also ask how the contestants did in that category? If they left it for last and fucked up every answer, that's definitely a failure of the education system (racism... eh). If they got them all right, I don't think see what the problem is. One category has to be last.

i would kill it in that category. put me on trebeck!

@ 25 They were 3/5 and one of the question missed was to name a state, the first question was to name who gave the I have a Dream Speech, if that one was missed then ok may be racist.

@15, agreed. Her was about a man falling in love with software tricked up to be a person. Jonze calls that computer persona a "character." Maybe but it's not a real person - someone else made that "character" (and probably hundreds of others)up.

And this whining "Emily, didn't you like it?" The rule of interviewing is to NOT make it about yourself and to make it about the subject and their work.

For the record, I found some parts of the movie interesting but it seemed like a sad little film about a guy who can't even get love right with a made-up entity on a computer. Maybe that was what spoke to Jonze.

Wasn't "Her" the best reviewed film of 2013?