This is a good comment, your last sentence in particular. As a Japanese American raised in a Japanese sect of Buddhism, I often side-eye American (read: white) Buddhists for every reason you stated in that last paragraph. Some people are clearly only in it for adulation, which is gross. I feel so awful for their…

Or even Animal House!

This guy was like 2 when that happened!!

This sounds real similar to an incident in the ‘80s when the Portland Police killed a black Marine veteran who had stopped a robbery. He ended up in a fight somehow, and the police put him in a sleeper hold and killed him:

No, what Oregon is obsessed with is that goddamned carpet pattern at PDX. I mean, I like it too, but the carpet infatuation is fucking absurd!

You are remembering correctly. I think I have that episode on DVD somewhere, but Yemana says you should drink something hot like coffee when it’s hot out to cool off. Barney asks him where he heard that, and Yemana says he read it on a jar of coffee.

I am genuinely shocked he didn’t go with “Orientals” while he was at it.

He seemed so lovely at the Olympics! Also, I enjoyed his torso on this show.

The “dancing” in that one really is something else.

Thank God I’m white!

Don’t forget Zinke.

Nah, she would not have medaled at the ‘94 Olympics. She did go to Worlds that year since neither Tonya nor Nancy went, and I distinctly remember all the pressure on her just to finish top 10 to qualify two American ladies skaters for the following year’s Worlds. Which she just barely did! She was great, but like 8th…

My aunt is watching Redzone today, and I mention to her that Pence left the Colts game early supposedly because of players kneeling. She goes, “Who?” And I say, “Mike Pence.” “...who? Oh yeah, that guy.”

How about the time they found Data’s head in a cave, went back in time 500 years, came back and attached that old head to Data’s body? And also Mark Twain was there.

THANK YOU. I think these two may take the cake, and they’re not even on the list!

We call that a quiche.

I had no idea AV Club ever did reviews of Homicide! I’ll just add all these years later that this is still my all-time favorite show, and this particular episode is my favorite episode. It’s just so well executed, and I think it’s also kind of quintessential Homicide. The murders this week are almost mundane (none of…

I am in the middle of a Deep Space Nine re-watch and have been reading these recaps as I went along, and then this site got switched to kinja, where I have a commenting account. Which is the only reason I am bothering to comment now!

To be fair, that’s us the rest of the time, too.

Yes, I was at a hockey game in Portland (Ore.) several years ago, and the girl singing O Canada forgot the lyrics somewhere in the first verse. The crowd sang the rest of the song, but there were probably only about a quarter as many of us so we didn’t sound quite as impressive as this Oilers crowd!