Sensible Xam.

I honestly am not sure I’m up for another season of Vikings, having had to drag my way through Season 5 after really enjoying most of the first four. I removed it from my DVR watch list after the finale and was all set to stop caring about it. But damn if that screenshot of Ivar and his wild and crazy buddy on a sled…

Kiss of the Spider Woman would also benefit from an actual Spider Woman.

I’m kind of a tapas guy by temperament -- I like a little bit of a lot of things, often in strange combinations -- so the replicator is second only to the transporter (I’m also extremely lazy) on my wish list.

Canonically, it’s supposed to be very harsh on the human palate, despite looking like Kool-Aid on the show. In one of the Trek novels there’s a line to the effect of “Humans drink Romulan ale for the same reason that they climb mountains — to prove they can.”

My head-canon is that Edmund’s preference for Turkish Delight foreshadows his heel turn later in the novel.  Misguided candy for a misguided child.

I want to go to there:

Oh, speaking of greasy — not a fictitious food, but common in fictionalized “frontier adventure” stories I used to read as a kid -- pemmican has always sounded kind of tasty to me. A concentrated ball of meat, fat, and fruit? I’m in. A friend of mine said she made it in grade school and she was the only one who liked…

I think I will always remain slightly crestfallen that I’ll never be able to suck an entire glazed ham off the bone in one bite, the way Tom from Tom & Jerry cartoons does. I don’t even really like big ol’ chunks of real-life ham that much (it’s good in sandwiches, or diced in omelettes, but a little salty as an…

Not mentioned in the review but possibly of interest: The CW is airing a “Talking Dead”-style recap show called Crisis Aftermath featuring filmmaker/comics geek Kevin Smith after the Supergirl episode on Sunday and the Flash episode on Tuesday.

After walking out of Joker (which I did enjoy) my main source of puzzlement was why it needed to be a “Batman” movie at all. Since we’ve established that Peck is an unreliable narrator, my bold reimagining of it goes one step further with the premise: Peck is not the Joker, and he doesn’t live in Gotham -- he’s a…

It’s entirely possible the screeners sent out for review either did not have subtitles or had different ones.

It may be the same genre, but it’s a different kind of show with different things to say. It’s OK to prefer Tolstoy to Dickens, but both are classics for a reason.

I like Mary too, she’s my favorite character on the show... and yet, damn, she is desperately thirsty for a relationship with a step-sister who has never demonstrated more than basic politeness at best. Admittedly, Kate has not been doing a great job with her secret identity and has zero plausible alibis for why she’s…

Much like Queen Industries on Arrow, it only exists to explain why the character is rich and set up “troubled legacy” plotlines. Comic books tend to have a very superficial relationship with the business world, and major corporations are usually just around to finance secret supervillain projects (like battlesuits and…

Sorry to chime in so late, but I have the perfect excuse: I was eating delicious food. Kate, you are a fine writer and know a lot of things and (according to the rules of online journalism these days) I look forward to seeing your byline somewhere and thinking “Hey! I know who that is, she’s awesome!” without…

At the risk of getting much further in the weeds on this topic than it really deserves, I will add that the opinion he’s expressing with that second clause is no longer strictly about food, but could also include a sub-opinion about the way people express themselves about food. 

I disagree that anything in his Tweet was meant to be understood as anything other than his opinion. Whether he stayed on topic or got all racist doesn’t really matter in terms of how “universal” his statement is. Even if his judgement about your opinion is included in his opinion, it’s still his opinion and nothing…

I disagree; he is participating in a quote-tweeted exercise explicitly soliciting unpopular food opinions. (Thus, the fact that it is him who thinks so and not God Almighty is baked into the cake, as it were. He doesn’t have to say it again.)