I haven't been to Medieval Times, though I totally wanted to go when I heard about it when I was 12.  I did, however, end up at a Rainforest Cafe the week before last, when visiting the Mall of America with my parents, wife, and 2-year-old.  None of us adults had had coffee or breakfast yet, and it was the first…

Especially in South Carolina!

I never understood your husband's and your brain's advice until recently, because every other time I've been looking hard for a job, I was unemployed.  But now, when I'm employed and looking around, I feel much choosier about what I will take.  A small increase in pay might not be enough to coax me away, since right…

Yeah, I get depressed on Sunday mornings, already dreading coming into work on Mondays.  I've been looking for another job for the last couple of years, but it's tough out there.  I've had interviews at 5 different employers in the past year (2 of 'em called me back for second interviews).  So the good news is that I…

I couldn't find your Wikipedia entry, @avclub-9b60cf1b2106f886f17cba2b1a0359b9:disqus . Should I search under another topic?

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus ¿Que?

Probably not, if it had Leo in it.  But I might be talked into it, if it turned out as great as I'm imagining it could be. I'm also beginning to think that Leo would actually be perfect casting for Gatsby, so I might not even need all that much convincing to watch a Scorsese Gatsby. As you can tell, I'm conflicted…

Wendell Pierce needs to be in everything.

[sneers] "Plough"?  'Round here we spell it "plow," Mr. Prissy Pants.

Where I grew up, "'splosions" were way more exciting than mere "explosions."  Maybe that varies region to region, though, like whether you say "soda" or "pop."

I've gotten so used to Leonardo DiCaprio being in Martin Scorsese movies that I don't see, that I immediately thought how Scorsese might have made a really awesome version of The Great Gatsby, despite that necessitating Scorsese do exactly what I have been saying for years he should not do, which is to step away from…

The penny used to be the only US coin on which a person was depicted twice: Honest Abe was on the front, of course, but he was also just barely visible in stature form among the pillars of the Lincoln Memorial on the back (the $5 bill still has this feature).  Now that the US Treasury has further subjected our…

Haven't watched Mad Men yet, because I don't have cable and I buy the episodes from Amazon, so I have to wait until I get home tonight to watch it (it usually becomes available sometime in the wee hours of Monday mornings).  I spend $1.89 per episode.  After Friday's discussion about a-la-carte cable, I have begun to…

@avclub-e463f97ca6bc46b1ba706474e108c7e1:disqus , could you post a link to my comment that has Cooper's Hawk in it?  I'd like to see what the hell I was talking about, and what kind of link ended up inserted in my post.

Hey, @avclub-e463f97ca6bc46b1ba706474e108c7e1:disqus , I'm glad you had a good time in KC!  Malinger-Her and I were just talking about how much we think it's one of America's best-kept secrets, and how we'd like to make a visit, since neither of us has been there in many years.  I'm glad some of my suggestions turned…

@avclub-6ca57d2774f04ac8acf3d2b10f0338f4:disqus : I meant Oscar Pistorius, the Blade Runner.  Fucked up his name.  I was making a tasteless comment, along the lines of that Onion headline that said "Handicapped Sprinter Proves He's Capable of Anything."

@avclub-4c56756898d633b36107f305da70351d:disqus , it's like you go to the same YMCA I do!

@bampote:disqus as someone who has been going movie theaters for over 35 years, yes, I know that was a common thing for ushers to do.  It was just really freaky right after the Aurora shooting, and for this usher to enter, walk toward the front of the theater, and look at the audience the whole time he was in there.

Interestingly, several of the people who escaped the Aurora shooting alive mentioned that they thought Holmes's entrance in gas mask, guns, etc. was some kind of promotion by the theater.  Apparently THAT was the take-away from the whole Aurora shooting for this theater manager.

You'll never go broke underestimating the stupidity of the American people.