Oh, right… Not sure how that could have slipped my mind, but she and Joel McHale have shared the stage already: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I have to assume that the Venn diagram showing overlap of Community viewers and RuPaul's Drag Race viewers is really small, because no one's commenting on season three's sorta-villain (and season two reject) Shangela in her role as "the drag queen".

Not sure where it is that Obama isn't criticized, but it's certainly not the case in American media: http://www.journalism.org/a…

Might have been a bit funnier if they didn't feel the need to underline all their jokes so obsessively.  Class warfare.  Two different classes fighting.  Get it?  Get it? Let's have someone say it  out loud just in case.  Class warfare, amiright?  Stress the word "class", too.  You never know.

Yeah, MiaB was the movie that did it for me.  My brother and I were channel surfing one night and came across it by accident… and couldn't look away.  He had such a unique presence, and I'm happy to stick with the stuff he intended for readers/audiences instead of prying through the private stuff.

That's funny - I was going to pull the same moment (from Serpent's Pass) but I couldn't think of a good way to put it.  You said it so much better than I was going to.

Yep, it's a pain in the ass.

It would be obvious if there were any narrative momentum in the Carl narrative, which there just isn't.  You can only have so many conversations about whether it's worth surviving, and something about deer and zzzzzz… Sorry, what were we talking about?

Not sure… I saw this in person, during a recent presentation he gave.  He's dropped bits and pieces of it in interviews (google "crack-smoking judges"), but it's pretty great to hear him do an extended rant, like he used to on Facebook before the show producers made him take it down.

But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one.

Haven't seen the show, but I'll tip my hat for the Into the Woods praise, because yes.

That final twist might have felt a bit less cheap if they'd done a half-competent job preparing it.  I just don't get the directorial choices here: they kept deflating the tension by cutting back to the who-cares subplot of the grieving parents, which more or less prevented any real investment in what was going on in…

Yeah, I admit some of it is personal preference and my own (limited) gaming experience: it's hard to go from a 200 hour experience in Fallout to U2's 12 hours and feel quite sated.  I know that's apples and oranges, but even the Metroid Prime games give me a solid 20 hours apiece, and a more engaging search-and-find…

Yup, I agree.  Unlike Mondo, who lost through an entirely unfair round of judging (Tim Gunn has a lot to say about it, off the record, and it's pretty scathing), Viktor has no one to blame but himself.

Gawd, you'd think Jones showed up at their house, raped their daughters, and kicked their puppies for good measure.   It's a game review, ladies and gents.  Jones didn't like the lack of progress in the series and found the controls wonky.  Your mileage may vary.  Life goes on.

Well played, Kaiser.  Well played.

Oddly, the homepage for Catalina Island's chamber of commerce does not advertise its zombie tigers, which is a missed opportunity.  It DOES, however, advertise the yearly zombie crawl: http://www.catalinachamber….

"There’s something in us that doesn’t trust hitch-hikers."

Carnival of Souls is pretty great, so I'm glad someone picked up on the parallel.  What's most unsettling to me about CoS is that pretty much everyone in the movie (except for maybe the housekeeper) is completely unlikeable, so instead of a sympathetic female and her sympathetic love interest, we get a brittle harpy…

Well, I don't think art is purely subjective, but one's response to it may be.  Opinion and analysis do overlap, but they're different monsters.  It's entirely valid to say "I don't like Shakespeare."  It's not entirely valid to say "Shakespeare is a terrible writer."  You can't really apply pure subjectivity in the…