I disagree. I’ve seen a bunch of Romero movies, I’ve read World War Z, and now apparently it’s confirmed that zombies are 100% real and actually want my brains and are reaching critical mass in Seattle. I would be really, really sad about the Gulf Islands but there’s an excellent chance I’d throw Vancouver, Victoria,…

““Tim. My Lobster. My Dawson. My soulmate.” iZombie/The Lobster exist in the same universe, confirmed.”

6: What do you want?

The “running with lightsaber” phenomenon: I feel like this is one of the more egregious examples of whipping out your laser sword well before you intend to actually cut something with it. Put a foot wrong and you accidentally decapitate yourself. C’mon, Jedi, safety.

For what it’s worth, Netflix promoted the shit out of Little Witch Academia to me. It was the first time I ever actually managed to apply my knowledge that anime shows don’t evolve or change over time at all, so if you don’t like the first two you should actually stop watching.

Saw John Darnielle do this live in a basement when I was 19 or something. It made me regret chucking out my copy of The Sign (which couldn’t have happened more than a year earlier), and it also made me listen to a lot of Mountain Goats. And then all hail west texas came out and I never loved again.

I always feel like it’s fine to ask. I hate booths because I’m a fatass and I hate bar tables because... I don’t know, possibly because I’m a fatass? I just don’t perch very well. Anyway, one time a waitress led us to a bar table in a restaurant that was basically 100% empty. Maybe there was one other table occupied.…

You’re really exaggerating that pause, and missed the most delightful part of that quote: the ridiculously elongated Teeeeeeee. Of course my battery died long ago so these are just treasured memories for me.

Typically merchants would be hawking sand, not selling it at the pawn shop. Scammers might hock sand, I guess.

This is take two on my desperate bid to post something in order to be humanized via Kinja support. The relationship to lord of the flies is tenuous at best.

Oh are we talking about Kinja? I am a crazy AV lurker making a rare comment part of the epic process of getting an account ported over. You will never hear from me again, maybe!

I'm confused. It's extremely common to "adapt" Shakespeare to modern timeframes - present day, Victorian era, and either world war are particularly popular picks in my non-comprehensive experience. It's done to show how fantastically flexible and relevant the text is, and how modern the themes and conflicts are (in…

I just wanted to share that this sentence is 100% unparseable if you are not familiar with Veronica Mars: "That season also brought Charisma Carpenter to Neptune, California, her ill-fated trophy wife, Kendall Casablancas, following in the footsteps of Trina Echolls, a troubled child of celebrity played by Alyson…

Genuine question: Why? The "houseboy" trope is a common stereotype about Asian people, and "housegirl" (though they existed) is not as common a phrase - so to me it makes sense that she rephrased it as "house Asian," getting at the racial nature of the stereotype without referring to herself as a boy. Was there…

No, it isn't. I'm guessing Cho is adapting the british "houseboy," not the American house slave concept. "Houseboy" commonly described any "native" person employed by a British colonial in within the home (and in britain as well; houseboys and housegirls typically being people of color rather than white…

There is a not-insignificant chance that I have been lurking here since before you could read. Every several years, I boil over and post something.

UPDATED: Oh my god, people, STATUTE of limitations. *cries the horrified tears that your copy editor has been holding back*

I seriously logged in just to point out this brutally egregious omission. She also invented invisibility in Hollow Man, but was clearly hired so that she could be nearly invisi-raped. I assumed her scientist double-fail would automatically put her on the list, and I am wounded by her absence.

If it was a recreated village, that's kind of a relief.

Also: an entire credits sequence composed largely of "anonymous." a win from title to key grip.