“I’m sure if you taped a 30 round magazine to the bottom of it or painted it black, then it would really start to give me a raging boner....”

I mean, you could be right, and I’m not the guy to say, “Your theory is stupid, and you’re stupid for sharing it,” because it’s a legitimately interesting observation that may wind up being correct. If I had to counter (I don’t; this is self-indulgent bullshitting), I’d say that any plot point that could be that…

I’ve always been amused when a waitress is overly flirtatious right in front of my wife when I happen to know that my wife is likely to be the one paying on that particular occasion.

But since they’re able to do pretty much the exact same thing later in the movie with snow, I’m not sure that’s significant.

You omitted the fact that you’ll be able to buy a $500 Hot Toys super-detailed replica of it after the movie comes out.

Oh, it’s the realest.

“People of Earth, Thanos accepts your gratitude!”

I don’t think the Soul Stone is in Wakanda. I think it will be missing until the third act of Avengers 4, after Thanos has collected all of the other Infinity Stones, and the Avengers are scrambling to find the last one before he can. At some point, Tony Stark will freak out, screaming, “If it’s not in Wakanda, where…

She was actually really good, but I don’t think the SNL writers ever wrote anything with her specifically in mind. She was a really reliable “utility player” who could be counted on to deliver lines with great tone and timing, react to others’ lines in way that was neither boring nor over the top, and do serviceable…

Huh...Sounds like there’s a lot of extra footage... That’s...interesting...

I was transitioning careers right after my oldest was born, and I remember asking a headhunter whether there were any options that would allow me to work from home, but also essentially be the primary caregiver during the daytime (i.e., no nanny, day care, etc.). She said, “You can do both. You can be a stay-at-home…

Yeah, I couldn’t tell you how much time Alexa saves or how much harder it would really be without it, but being able to flip distractions (music, TV, etc.) on and off on the fly really helps, especially if you need to snag moments of productivity in 10-15 minute bursts.

Essentially, I’m just asking for foolproof, outsider parenting advice that’s applicable across all children — but specifically, mine.

“It’s really important when you bring somebody’s characters to life to make sure that you’re capturing the spirit and the essence of what they intended. And so far, he’s loved it. He really felt like we captured the characters well and the world and the environment.”

Yeah, I’m not going to say that there wasn’t a big contingent of “fans” that disliked the film for sexist or racist reasons. They were clearly out there. What’s annoying to me (other than, y’know, sexism and racism generally) is that these assholes were so incredibly vocal about their views, and expressed them long…

I think that when people’s minds latch onto a “fact” that suggests something is superlative or unique (i.e., something is the first/greatest/biggest/only), they tend not to go out of their way to look for evidence to disprove their own premise, particularly when there’s an argument to be made that something else holds…

Yeah, that. Also, how do you get two 50-year-old men to pretend to give a shit about a karate tournament they participated in while in fucking high school?

But I’ve never seen Amy Sherald’s work before—and after seeing photographs of her enigmatic rendering of Michelle Obama, I am desperate to.

I had a sorta-kinda-similar thing happen to me. We had spent the summer apart working at internships on opposite coasts, and we were returning to the same school for the fall semester. The plan was for me to pick her up at the airport and for us to go to a venue nearby, where one of our favorite bands was playing the…

Replying to myself here, rather than respond a half dozen times to the various Apple fanboys screaming from the greys...