Yeah, the only people who think Catholics have anti-science views are non-Catholics. Twelve years of Catholic schooling here and I got an excellent science education. Not a mention of religion in any science classes.

The motorcycle chase scene from Wet Hot American Summer, with the hay bale, is one of my favorite things ever.

I love that guy who picks them up when they're hitchhiking. Especially when he starts making up lyrics to his song to echo their conversation:

Oddly enough, they seem to be a new thing around here (southern New England). I'd never heard of it till 6ish years ago.

I'm no expert on musicals, but there's a difference between having a "character-actor" sort of voice, and a bad voice. No, characters in musicals aren't supposed to be bad singers, at least not so bad that it's unpleasant to listen to them sing. They don't have to have technically perfect voices either. Sascha Baron…

Yeah, having Colm Wilkinson in the film was painful. Jackman's voice is so strained by comparison.

To be fair, it might have been food that would keep very long on a beach.

That movie has such highs and lows. Tveit, Hathaway, Redmayne — all great. Russell Crowe? So bad it was funny. And I thought Jackman was terrible, but that seems to be a minority opinion.

My brother had a student whose mother was 26. The student was 14.

It's a class thing, not necessarily a race thing.

Dora is on the TV right now as I type this, and your co-worker's dad is a wise, wise man.

….and I just had intense flashbacks to college and the insanely partisan X-Files listserve I used to belong to. Noromos vs. shippers! My introduction to the gaping hell of internet wars.

But I think that is precisely the point. Dre feels an obligation to be "black", and his understanding of that identity is colored by his experiences growing up in Compton. He's dealing with an interpretation, or version, of black identity that is all tied up with poverty and the urban condition. What's he's feeling…

….black-ish?

Nah, it was Ma who was a horrible wet blanket.

I'm laughing and it's so wrong.

There was an op-ed piece in my local paper by a black journalism prof. basically comparing the title to the n-word, but he did a terrible job explaining why he thought this way. Can you elaborate why you think it's so bad? How is the term Black-ish offensive? (I'm serious here, I don't understand the problem).

He is oddly shaped, with a barrel chest but skinny arms. He's one of those guys who look both thin and heavy at the same time. See: Jimmy Kimmel.

There was this commercial for the United Negro College Fund. A young black kid and his dad are discussing the son's upcoming move to college, and the dad is getting super excited, and the boy says gently something to the effect of, Hey Dad, I'm the one going to college, not you. WATERWORKS.

Holy shit, "Rags to Riches". My sister and I had that first episode on tape and watched it over and over. I don't remember that particular scene, which is funny because I think I remember every other damn thing about that show.