WOO!  WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Ernie actually LOOKED like a young Jean Claude Van Damme and was so into playing the part, his blue-ass eyes going all crazy in so many shots.  I kind of grew to like him over this episode.  It's the first time we've seen him be goofy.  What was that twirly jump dance after passing the challenge?  Beauty, that's what…

also my passport hasn't been checked since i entered this country, even on FLIGHTS TO OTHER COUNTRIES. let alone train trips. i know it's an EU thing but it strikes me as fucking bizarre.

especially with regional travel in Europe, they don't check consistently, but will do random checks, and if you're caught without a ticket you either have to pay an inflated ticket price (on actual trains) or get stuck with a fine (on inter-city transit).  but yeah, it does seem weird coming from the U.S.  a lot of…

yeah, it's possible.  i spent my summer doing extensive travel on deutschebahn and while on the high speed trains my tickets where checked 100% of the time, there were several occasions on regional trains where it never happened.  also once on a TGV, even. it can happen, but man did they get lucky.  and i didn't…

also maybe i'm just a flabmonster but i thought everyone looked amazingly good for being "average people" who are more athletically inclined than the average person.  I mean, Bill is fucking ripped for an old dude, and Kathy was surprisingly muscled as well.  Ernie's body was kind of amazing and he was way too into…

The fact that you wrote this out this long-ass comment confirms my basic loathing of men.

Why shouldn't she bring it up?  They would've had one more, potentially very good dish if Keith hadn't fucked up.  Maybe I just feel solidarity because I too am a bitchy fat Sarah but in her shoes I would've done everything in my power to get him the fuck out of there.

Yeah, I thought that was his, and the judges said they liked it.  Although given that it appeared to be very standard carne asada and beans I don't understand why they didn't critique that as well.  Cooking basic street food well is not really top-chef-level quality.

my point wasn't whether or not they compare, but that the bullshit crazy behavior of the fans are pretty similar, yet people don't make enough fun of Harry Potter fans as they should.

I was JUST about to point this out in response to the article. I objectively don't find fandom of Twilight any less silly or mock-worthy than the die-hard Harry Potter fans (in fact, HP fans are more annoying because they think Rowling is a great writer, which she's not, whereas all the adults I know who read Twilight…

But the problem is that "feminism is about choice" is inaccurate.  Feminism is about recognizing the ways women are oppressed with the goal of ending that oppression.  It's not as cute a soundbite as 'It's about choice!" and it comes off as pretty heavy-handed, but feminism is an actual political movement with it's…

I know.  But we don't tell men.That's the first rule of Feminist Club.

Oh FFS the shooting in Oakland was unrelated to the Occupy camp.  Here's the thing about Oakland: shootings happen, in various places in the city.  Downtown is not exempt from this (it can be kinda sketch at night).  Trying to tie it to Occupy is just fucking dumb.

God I love the delusions of people who suck at the government teat and try to convince themselves they don't.  The benefits that come with military and government jobs is the biggest welfare game in the world - I say this sitting in a very nice apartment in Europe that the U.S. Government (i.e. you, the taxpayer) pays…

Too many comments to read, plus I still haven't seen "Scott Pilgrim."  The premise sounded terrible.  I too am Cera-ed out.  But I like Robinson's tastes, and I like Wright on "Doug Loves Movies" so I will watch it eventually.

Really?  Because at a top-notch land-based restaurant, a chef, or someone directly underneath the chef will be choosing the freshest-quality ingredients within a day or two of cooking them.  A cruise ship chef, even one at a more exclusive restaurant, is still going to be seating far more people than a top-notch…

Her being able to be vague enough that smart people can read smart intentions into it may be a valuable skill for a reality show, certainly, or for getting fame and money as an artist, but it doesn't make something "good art" in my opinion.  I think the artists' intentions matter - me and Jerry Saltz disagree on this,…

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I don't have a problem with her tastes - I'm a pretty dour, humorless feminist myself and I enjoy many of the dumb things she enjoys - I just don't know why the interviewer framed it in terms of feminism and why Kaling went along with that.  I am so sick of the notion that "feminism is about choice" (no it's not)…