Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!

I see the potential for a chain of Tom Bombadil-themed slam poetry coffee shops.

Joyce, Jonathan, and Mike trying to get through to Will while telling heartfelt stories from the past wasn’t only moving, but was such narrative perfection in filling in backstory that give these characters so much depth. Byers’ Castle origin story? Yes please!!

Whatever your thoughts on this show, I really think it does right by its characters. A lesser or more cynical show would have made a character like Bob a profound dunce or a coward in over his head, but he gets his chance to prove himself as something more than a symbol of Joyce’s unobtainable sense of normalcy. Even…

Yeah, Han was the cool one but even though I was an adult in 1977, Luke was my hero.

Lucas colonized the imagination in a way that was never done before in cinema. In the late 70s, a bunch of preteens and adolescents, including you and me, made a mass migration into the ancient, far away galaxy he created. And Luke was our avatar. He was our proxy into that world.

Yep. I was 5 in 1977. Mark Hamill used to frequently visit a local comic book shop that I visited as a late teen many times. I never saw him though. According to the shopkeepers he would breeze in and out and other customers wouldnt give him a second look when his career wasn’t doing so hot. My reply was along the…

Holy shit! Hamill is way older than I thought. Wow.

It blows my mind that he’s actually older than Alec Guiness was.

For whatever flaws this movie may end up having, there is an overwhelming poignancy seeing Luke at this stage in his life that only Gen-X’ers may fully be able to appreciate.

I’d bet Jeff Goldblum would be a great roommate. He’s the type of guy who would buy a large pizza with every intention of sharing half of it with you. When he buys milk, he’s like, “Hey man, drink as much as you want. Just make sure I have some for my morning coffee.” He’s the kinda guy who always washes the dishes…

“Oh, yeah, like the guy in the five thousand dollar suit is gonna construct a competent lineup. Koeman!”

A few years ago, someone applied to manage Middlesbrough FC on the strength of his Football Manager stats and his experience coaching a local u-11 team... and received a personal reply from the club’s chairman:

#TeamDiagonal

WTF, no opinion on diagonal staples? So much better, and less chance of tearing.

When NPR was recently talking about The various hurricanes that have hit the US, my 4 year old was getting all excited because “Harry Kane is coming!!!!”

Indisputable: Kevin Conroy in BtAS (NOT The Adventures of Batman & Robin or whatever, the art direction really dropped off then). The most human Batman there was.

The following “What???” from Chidi made it for me - the same intonation of exasperated confusion from the episode where both Eleanor and Tahani dumped him while Jason was marrying Janet

Or at the very least she likes playing his love interest.

I really hope Vicky gets more screentime. She is so funny. Her desire to be involved in Chidi’s torture was so great.