Playing tons of Overwatch. My Competitive play is like the Red Queen's Race: "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

everything else about her comes across as 100% manufactured

Oh, man, Forbes. Forbes, if you won't let me even take a sneak peek at what I'm getting, I'm gonna assume that none of it is worth disabling adblock for.

You don't get life in prison for vandalism and lying to the cops, no matter what country you do it in. And anyway, now that he's in the US it's going to be a pain for the Brazilians to extradite him, they probably won't bother. Though I'm hoping the US gift-wraps him, sticks a bow on his ass and throws him on a…

Though this article has done the world — or at least me — a huge favor. Reading the news, it wasn't clear whether Lochte's misadventures in Rio were a douchebro athlete partying too hard and making up stories to dodge the law, or a corrupt police force trying to cover for their officers' criminal behavior.

Somewhere a casting director is kicking himself for casting Chris Helmsworth in the new Ghostbusters.

He's probably the only one who's got a professional Hollywood agent who knows how to deal with this sort of thing.

My train of thought just now:

Schaedenfreudefergnugen.

They think pregnancy is the woman's problem, and it's up to her to deal with it. Vasectomy, they say, is literally emasculating yourself for your woman's convenience.

I hear you, but it's better than the alternative…

You're joking, but Trump grew up in the church of Norman Vincent Peale, author of "The Power of Positive Thinking", which was the 1950s version of The Secret. The key to success, Peale said, was the repetition of confident phrases: constantly say what you want to be true, and it will become true. Sound familiar?

I don't really understand why the wingnuts are suddenly so obsessed with
Clinton's health, since their candidate is the one who looks and sounds
more unhealthy than she does.

"Please clap."

Let's be clear: method acting is a crock of horsesh*t perpetrated by psychopaths looking for an excuse to be hideous in public. But if it gets you performances like Dustin Hoffman's, maybe you put up with it.

This shit drives me crazy. Who's actually going to create the apps? Doesn't matter, the *idea* is what counts! Ugh. Everybody wants to be a designer, a brand developer, a concept engineer, and we worship famous "visionaries" for their imagination, but nobody gives a crap about the programmers, engineers, and…

For future reference, Ira, if you're trying to remember the name of a band during an AV Club interview, you don't Google it. You just hum the chorus, or mention some random bit of trivia, and the AV Club interviewer will identify it immediately. They're professionals. This is what they do.

I think so. IMO, pop culture doesn't have to actually be popular, it just has to be outside the genres of classical culture (opera, literature, fine art, etc.) All feature films get a pass, no matter how elitist they are.

Is Season 1 at least halfway decent? I'm tired of slogging through "Yeah, the pilot is terrible but don't worry, it gets really good around season 8" TV.

*and* it's hilarious on top of all that.