@avclub-fec1b8d3fbc08f27a84e5a334d45bb5a:disqus there's also been a fair number of moves to get rid of park benches and other places the homeless might sleep, and to nimby all the shelters. people are gross

The GOP is notoriously inconstant in its 'small government' stance- they tend not to be so in favor of it when it comes to, say, the NSA (both parties: for!) the military (both parties: for!) or restricting marriage and abortion rights (the Republicans: slightly more for!)

Biblethump sounds like a White Stripes album

I remember that show being fairly funny, but preteen me was unable to get over being upset at the premise of a charming young man dying needlessly

His short stories are often pretty amazing- I'd back the whole of several of his anthologies, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and actually I Sing the Body Electric- but I think he's someone who was better at creating an atmosphere than in developing a world in a way one normally would in sci fi or…

There's a similar Philip K. Dick story, where families have robot nannies who protect the children, and to whom they become attached as family members- but in his story, they also go out at night and try to destroy one another so that your family will forever have to buy a newer model, with better armaments.

I believe that Lanzmann has said that he feels that the Nazis and the Holocaust/Shoah are and should be seen as unique historical events, impossible to contextualize or to understand, perpetrated by impenetrable monsters, which seems wildly unhelpful and unhistorical- and which creates a specific contrast to Resnais'…

I don't normally complain about this kind of thing, but is it appropriate to assign a Hodgman stand up special to someone for whom "A little Hodgman goes a long way"?

There's a pretty great Captain Marvel/Superman fight in the Justice League show, where they're evenly matched physically so Marvel starts yelling 'Shazam!' so that the lightning that makes him into Marvel comes down and zaps Supes (who is also pretty vulnerable to electricity, so magic lightning is kind of a thing.)…

"An old school princess adventure" seems like a kneejerk dismissal of Brave- the setting is somewhat Disney, but the actual themes and development of the story are really distinctive, and have as much depth as anything Pixar's done in a long time. Though I think it was probably a bit hampered by the last minute…

Wall-E is Pixar's masterpiece, everything else is well below it. Probably Wall-E, then Up, Nemo, and Ratatouille, then Monsters Inc, Toy Story 2 and 3, and the Incredibles, then Toy Story and Bug's Life.

"Increase the Flash Gordon noise and put more science stuff around!"
"No, sir, that's paper."
"I'm going to curl up in his sock drawer and sleep for days…."

Seriously, though, my girlfriend is a native Vermonter, and the episode's that much funnier if you've spent time there- it's impossible for me not to kind of love the filmmakers, too

Lousy Castleton snobs

The shorts are pretty great, but I know what you mean about the political content- it's really minor and usually pretty superficial, but I think it's less 'these guys saying things I don't agree with' (I think only Mike is actually conservative) and more 'that joke doesn't work because it's premised on a viewpoint…

Hodgman's Dead Authors Podcast appearance- which started the Ayn Rand thing- comes out tomorrow, and it is like the most exciting thing in the history of time

Well, somebody's aunt, yeah

eh, it's not much of a stretch

Dinosaurs? I appreciate the Henson shop puppeteering, but the show itself is really obnoxious, for all that the last episode is unexpectedly cool

Didn't the Simpsons reference Dinosaurs at least once during the golden era? Ren and Stimpy aged like the finest gouda compared to that one