Sigh. Guess it’s time for me to lean all the way into my age and prep myself for a flood of “ok boomer” replies, to wit:

Just to chime in here, The Office Ladies podcast is incredibly charming and sweet.

...or Hudsucker or Cadillac Man either.

I’m Jennyuinely excited to see this.

I want so badly to be excited about this movie. But JJ Abrams has fooled me too many times with his Star Wars and Star Trek movies. At this point I know what to expect. Trailers full of stupefying imagery, like incarnate storyboards, and then a subsequent movie where these visual setpieces are linked together by the…

I didn’t like it either. You had to work, first of all, to forget that it was basically a rehash of Community, but with more politics. Then Kal Penn’s performance was some bizarre amalgam of a half-assed Liz Lemon and a quarter-assed Leslie Knope (which was really disappointing because Kal Penn is a really funny guy…

God, The Rocketeer is so incredibly underrated as a whole. But Jennifer Connelly in that white dress...

At best, it’s an elaborate introduction to the abortion doctor who fixes Johnny Fontaine’s vocal cords, becomes the mob’s head MD in Vegas, and fixes Michael’s face. But I think Puzo really only included it for salacious titillation.

The fact that, in his final act of self sacrifice, he basically tells God to go f—- himself because they had saved themselves without his help shocked me when I was younger, but every year that passes I feel more and more like him.

The thing about 70s disaster movies was that they came along before everyone had the budget to make movies with a dozen different tentpole setpieces, so you had the Airport films, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, etc. basically predicated on one or two REALLY BIG effects scenes, and then a whole mess of…

The backstory behind the book is fascinating. Mario Puzo basically said straight out that he was tired of writing good fiction, because it wasn’t selling. He wrote The Godfather as an intentionally pulpy, garishly exploitative book that he thought would sell a bundle on supermarket shelves. I don’t think he ever…

Oh, we did that game too. We did all sorts of dumb games - most families do. You just switch games as the kids get older and the trends change.

I have four kids, and we’ve played the game where you make the upside-down OK symbol (which we considered basically a “finger circle”) and put it surreptitiously in various places, and then the person who sees it “loses the game” and gets a punch in the arm. We got to the point where we would hide them in photographs…

As a connoisseur of pizzas from all locales, the one thing I know is that the never-ending assertions of various markets - Chicago, New York, California, Midwest, etc. - that their pizza is the categorical best are a load of mule muffins.

Al did the “correct” thing.

Devil’s advocate: Nobody knows the long-term effects of vaping yet because nobody has done long-term studies on it. There is anecdotal evidence that inhaling anything artificial into your lungs long-term causes serious health problems (in fact, that is one of the concerns about inhalable insulin, a delivery system…

You had to bring that up, DEEEEEEEEEEN-chuh?

I laughed far harder at this than I really should have.

Honestly, they can’t win - if they don’t courtesy flush, they’ll get the FBI called on them for leaving poo marks in the bowl (or, worse, a Lurking Log).

I said it on another thread recently, but I’ll say it again - it is simply unbelievable what Adam Sandler is capable of when he decides to make a real effort as an actor.