There’s a character Da5id in Snow Crash. Da-Five-id. The audiobook pronounced it “David.” I was annoyed.

DeBlasio is meh. I really want to like him. He just keeps being so meh.

The original Kingsman comic was crap. Millar is the only comic book writer I know whose ideas are much better when translated into film by someone else. Kick Ass, Kingsmen, Civil War, and Wanted (yes, the movie is shit, but the comic is complete and utter shit). The fact that this is written by someone other than…

I’m still torn on this. I love Denis Villeneuve’s work. At the same time, Blade Runner, while an incredible piece of art is a slow, meandering movie that gets more praise than it should and definitely does not need a sequel. This is pushing me towards seeing it in theaters, but I’m still not sure. (Although I am…

The four:

Legally it is not a sport. If it was a sport, they would actually have to take safety into consideration. It’s more dangerous than a sport.

New way to make baseball appeal to the younger set- allowed pegged outs like in kickball.

This shows I’ve been out of MA for too long. I know what a bubblah is, I know to get jimmies on my ice cream and I know that a frappe is a different and far superior being to a milk shake. But what is an uey?

Spill beer on him next time, apologize, say you didn’t see him there. He’s old, what’s he going to do to you?

Do you know the only offensive thing you can call a white person? Racist. Call them cracker, call them honky, they won’t care. Call them a racist and they will get all offended.

That is technically correct. It stands for white supremacy, jim crow laws, separate but equal, lynching African Americans, thinking people are inferior because of their birth, believing that all Catholics should be driven from the United States (seriously, look up the KKK and Catholicism), anti-semitism and general…

The big new thing is bubble tea at least according to the New York Times. (Seriously, google it, it’s sadly hilarious, they were mocked thoroughly for it.)

Interesting fact is that without air resistance that fall will take 42 minutes.

I’m still waiting for that. If I can’t call the creepy computer that controls a good part of my life HAL, then what’s the point?

Convince the Kochs that it’s hurting the conservative brand.

Millar’s work was middling, making it one of his best comics. The movie elevated it to an actually funny, entertaining, and, weirdly enough, heartfelt piece of entertainment. I’m glad it’s getting a sequel. The fact that Millar has absolutely nothing to do with it makes me optimistic that it will be better than the…

When I make rice and beans (quick, easy, cheap as hell) I add some cumin. I think “perhaps I added too much cumin.” I taste the beans. I add more cumin. I have yet to hit the upper limit for cumin on rice and beans. I am sure it exists. But it is larger than anyone would suspect.

Her interview with Allie Brosh was painful to listen to, as Gross basically pushed her into a very uncomfortable emotional spot when she just kept up a stream of questions about Brosh considering suicide. I really like Gross, but that was one interview I wish she had never done.

Saw this on Broadway. It’s fantastic. One of the really nice things they did was to give Ned and Nancy their own songs and flesh out those characters. Ned’s song actually brought me to tears, which is not something I expected. It doesn’t hurt that the script (book) was written by Danny Rubin, who wrote the movie…

My uncle and aunt were visiting and I met them at the Met. When we were done, I said something along the lines of “it’s a short walk to the subway.” 3 long blocks, 5 short blocks. 10 minutes if you walk slowly. This was way too far a walk for my relatives who are not used to casually walking distances like that,…