I think you answered your own question there.

Parable of the Sower alone is well worth the $1. It is sadly, prophetically relevant today.

Yeah, totally worth the risk. I mean, how much worse could things get?

How in Glob’s name can Kubo and the Two Strings not have been nominated for Animated Feature? Do not read this as a slight on the other nominees, but Kubo was incredibly good.

One of few. One of the few.

No DRM.

And it was updated! And it was a procedural! But it was not boring!

We should probably just agree that in a show full of truly terrible stuff (which I loved as a kid) the music was surprisingly great.

Panthro must be number one on the strength of his theme song alone.

I cannot recommend highly enough that you make time. It will be worth it, and your life will be less awesome if you miss it just because an audiobook is not available. It’s a quick read, to boot.

When in doubt, always rewatch Totoro. Especially if you have small children around.

Alternately/additionally, they could create a great API to Google Photos so that someone else could create an equivalent.

Better:

Arriety wasn’t Miyazaki, and The Wind Rises was there. Watch the umbrella rising to the man on the water tower.

Oh god, you’re killing me.

Not trolling. I—a lifelong singer and lover of music—truly believe that she can’t sing. At least, nothing that I’ve heard her sing has been impressive enough to match her fame. She was married to Webber, otherwise we would not know about her.

“soprano Sarah Brightman, who owned Broadway in the 1980s thanks to Cats and Phantom of the Opera being married to Andrew Lloyd Webber and despite being unable to sing”

Jackson, TN is a nice place to raise a family, but not exactly “happening.” The nearby town of Brownsville, though has this: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/7403

I came in for recommendations and also to make sure that this was here. Never have I been so interested in weaving and milk production. I cannot wait until the next volume is out.

This, a million times! Last week's episodes were just the icing on what has been a consistently amazing cake for a few weeks now. The episode where Steven and Connie merge is hands down one of my favorite parts of anything ever. It is an incredible distillation of young love/coming of age tropes and realities. I never…