His point, I think, is that while the western genre produced a lot of unremarkable, samey product, there were some gems that transcended the genre…which we don't see at all with superhero movies. Some are better than others, but there are no surprises, as Gilliam says.

Thing is, I agree with him completely, know full well that these films rot my brain…and yet I'm still going to watch them. Just as I will continue to eat Doritos, even if they're not really food.

I just learned about this trend, from (of all places) a Russell Brand podcast, in which he rants about how stupid it is that adults are now wasting their time coloring. But I'm with you…it sounds relaxing.

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My experience has been the precise opposite: one pleasant cop for every 10 dicks who seemed to delight in fucking with me, just because they can. Most of that experience was from the period when I was a dirty hippie living in Texas, so I guess that explains itself.

I think that when we're dealing with big institutions, there are systemic problems that persist regardless of how good or bad a particular individual in the system happens to be. The system, or the professional culture, produces a certain kind of worker…managers of corporations might not be bastards as individuals,…

He's thrown a kettle over a pub. What have you ever done?

The 6th doctor's costume looks completely stupid on a human, but kind of works on a corgi.

Calypso from the 30s is the tits.

I was pedantically correcting someone who was pedantically correcting someone, so technically (arguably), I did not start it.

You reek of death, my friend. I salute you!

When you finish the Thieves Guild quest in Skyrim, you're not quite done…you've still got to run countless side missions if you want to be Guildmaster. Steal 500 gold from Solitude, or whatever, over and over again. A great deal of annoying work just to tie up that Thieves Guild loose end.

I never thought I'd hear people complaining about too much fire-breathing lionman, instead of too little.

That's the glass-is-half-full way of looking at it. The glass-is-half-empty way would be: Doctor Who is great right now, but sooner or later, they'll screw it up…

"Hey, that guy has two arms and two legs, just like the figure on the poster…seize him!"

In the 17th century, did they depict criminals on Wanted posters in silhouette? That seems like a pretty bad way of identifying people.

If you're talking about Doctor Who on the internet on a Saturday night, you don't have a girlfriend. Even if you do have a girlfriend.

Egg…like a bird's egg!

So, we've got time-traveling lion-men from Warrior's Gate…fire-breathing lion-men from tonight's episode…cat nuns/nurses around the year 5 billion. Seems like they should consolidate these cat people into one thing.

I just skimmed a couple of reviews that called her Me throughout. No. We're not doing that.