Dammit! So who's left then for the next Big Bad of Phase 4+? Doom is out, Kang is out, Galactus is out, Venom is out, Ultron has been done, Apocalypse has been done, Magneto has been done, Red Skull has been done… who's left? I'm kinda drawing a blank here!

Does the MCU have the rights to Kang the Conqueror? Or is that stuck over at Fox too?

Ima spoil this bitch like a day-old ham sammich on a Mississippi summer afternoon

And then on December 25th we get a weird comic-relief bit with Romana singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas" but each verse is sung by a new Romana until there are all twelve on screen at once.

Rain rain go away

Who run Barter Town?

Du Jour means seat belts!

Perfectly valid reason, actually. Flashing a little tit at Ser Bronn gets his heart racing and his blood pumping, which activates the poison that was on the blade she nicked him with earlier, he humbles himself and begs for the antidote, etc. It's a great scene. Not alll of the nudity on GoT in gratuitous, credit…

That was the biggest surprise that I took away from this whole kerfuffle as well. Like, damn girl. I think I need to step up my moisturizing game.

It's more of a question of micro vs. macro. Racism will have an impact on someone's life in a personal way; not getting a job or being turned down for a loan, or worse - getting beat up or lynched. Anti-intellectualism threatens to degrade our trust in and understanding of science and facts, which will have…

My wife shared basically this exact same opinion this morning, when we were discussing our daughters' new Youtube obsession with MandaPanda (her shtick is Pokemon and My Little Pony mashups/repaints/unboxing toys while carrying on in a painfully annoying stream-of-consciousness blah-blah high-pitched sing-songy tone…

Absolutely true. After we worked out our interpretation of that song, I was like "huh, that sounds very different than Bono's usual message".

When I decide that I love a song, I listen to it over and over and over, include it on every playlist that I create for the next year, get burnt out on it and then take a break from it, but then come back to it after awhile and love it all over again, etc. There is exactly one song ever that I have resisted this…

I love that Timebomb has become cemented as the song to close any and every Old 97s concert (at least, every single concert of theirs that I've ever been to, which is about half a dozen over the course of maybe a decade) because, really, what could possibly top that?

I recently decided to go back and give Songs of Innocence another try, and I've ended up listening to it a lot lately. It actually prompted one of the more fascinating conversations I've had recently with my daughters (7-year-old twins). We were cruising in the car, listening to "Raised By Wolves" and one of my girls…

It was Newtown for me. I stayed off the Internet as a whole for a solid month, and have only barely returned to Facebook since then.

My little brother went as Wonder Woman for Halloween one year when he was about that age. We have pictures to prove it, which we frequently and delightedly do. Barring a little "confusion" when he was college-aged, he is currently (so far as I know) straight as an arrow.

"Clopping".

I could understand the "Syrio's not really dead" movement going into season 2 or even season 3, but any longer than that and it's pushing into "bring back Firefly" territory.

The first time I saw ELP play was back in the mid-90s when they were opening for Jethro Tull. Although they weren't so much an opening band as it was a double-bill in which ELP played first and Tull second, as they each had roughly equal time. I distinctly remember Ian Anderson thanking ELP for joining them on tour,…