He also has an amazing Resting Bitch Face.

He is pretty much Exhibit A for why I am anti-bowtie.

Let me say up front that I'm NOT discounting the existence of white privilege or male privilege. Ok? Ok.

People have weird responses to ostensible authority, whether it's you or some punk 17 year old. Stanley Milgram basically talked people into a place where they were willing to maim/kill innocent human beings based on the fact that he was wearing a white lab coat. You'd be surprised what one can do with a little…

Well, I've worked in commercial litigation for 10 years with some very difficult clients with notoriously demanding corporate counsel. I can't say there isn't anybody who doesn't expect instant responses to every single e-mail, but I've yet to find that person. (Phone calls are a different story—you don't put those…

OK, I get it. He's being ridiculous. But doesn't this feel just a bit too mean to you?

The only thing I would add is that if my kid's at home and there's a baby sitter, I will put my phone to vibrate. If I get a text, I take my phone out of the theater to read it. Otherwise, yeah, put that fucker away.

Or knitting.

Honestly? I've found that my good-old local drive-in is becoming the superior choice lately. It's got six screens, shows the same movies, I can eat whatever I want, and I don't have to even *see* other people. Granted, the sound is not what you'd get in a traditional theater, but that's a tradeoff I am happy to make.

Oh, for God's sake. No one is responsive to their e-mails 24/7. Not even millionaire executives (hell, ESPECIALLY not millionaire executives). If you are regularly answering e-mails in movie theaters or after 10-11 pm, consider that the problem might be you.

Generally if you go down to the person and tell them they need to turn off their phone, they will comply. Granted, this technique does require a certain assertiveness that not all people have, but that's why they have theater managers, who will back you up on this if you need help.

I believe I have watched it exactly once and rolled my eyes so many times they almost stuck that way.

He was dancing to the Paula Abdul musical number at the end of the second season premiere (with Titus and his ex-wife in the train station). It was actually super cute.

It's not just you. I think that may be the house style, though.

I don't know that it's cynicism. It's just not a common way to end "adult" movies in our culture. (Slumdog Millionaire is the only notable exception, and that was more a tribute to Bollyood, where it's far more common.) Kids like music and dancing.

Now, now, let's not be that way.

Right. And yeah, Trolls was a little grating at time, but it obviously wasn't for me; it was for my five-year-old, who absolutely loved it. (And, bonus points: it's not a crashingly loud, hypermasculine fantasy about guns and killing, of which waaaay too many are marketed to my child.)

Agreed. The show has potential, though. Fuller has pitched some ideas that, frankly, looked terrible on paper (i.e., Hannibal), and ended up absolutely amazing (Hannibal again). I'll happily give him a try, though the new Star Trek show might break that trend because it sounds like even he is acknowledging it will be…

I made it through that whole book, and boy does it not get any better. No plot progession, just more road trip punctuated by weird, hallucinatory episodes and a climax that comes out of nowhere, with a twist/explanation that Gaiman already used once (to much greater effect) in The Sandman.

What is sickening about this is how, in publishing, a $250,000 advance is almost completely fucking unheard of unless you're Stephen King. Lots of new, talented authors don't even get advances and have to scrape by for years on day jobs, waiting to build an audience and be recognized. But if you're some asshole on the…