French fries are physically addictive—or to be more specific, fat and salt (also sugar) are physically addictive. Studies have been conducted that showed they trigger the same pleasure centers of the brain as opiates.

So Corin Tucker's daughter's name is Glory Bangs?

I guess I'll have to add the word "female" to my business card. Now it will say "Female Female Body Inspector"

I thought I'm Still Here was seriously underappreciated, and will continue to share this anytime someone brings it up. I found it hilarious, and Phoenix gave a great performance as usual.

That's exactly how I would describe American Hustle.

About the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, no less.

So that's what those Scottish kids were singing.

Sorry, just saw this because Disqus won't show me notifications anymore. Granted, this was about 8 years ago, but we waited in line (on the sidewalk outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza) overnight, if I remember correctly it was about 8 or 9 p.m. until about 7 the next morning. In December. Luckily, it was cold that night but…

Let's not do this, Elizabeth.

Jesse Pinkman might have said it, what with all the "yos."

Hey, last time I got ice cubes in my half can of ginger ale. And I had the option of paying eight dollars for two tablespoons of hummus and five crackers. I felt like one of those kids on Instagram who eat dinner off of iPads.

I once went to an SNL dress rehearsal. My roommate really wanted to go to the show because it was near her birthday and she loved Justin Timberlake (I know, I know). We waited overnight for tickets, but tickets don't guarantee a seat for some reason, and we figured we'd have a better chance at getting into the dress…

The man loves stripes.

Ok, I just saw Dances with Wolves last week, and I went in fully expecting a fun, snarky hatewatch, but I loved it. I thought it was a great movie. (I'm not sure the totally legal copy I obtained was the original or director's cut—either way I give K. Cost many kudos. Especially for putting his own naked butt in a…

I facepalm anytime someone uses the word "braise" at this point. It almost never results in a well-cooked dish given the time constraints.

As I understood it, German is his first language, and he just speaks English very deliberately because he's not as comfortable with it. Also, maybe he's shy. I blame horror movies for this "creepy child" thing. What is so scary about these pint-sized pipsqueaks?

I'm guessing the 3-way tie was a logistics thing, considering they had 19 contestants to start with, and maybe having 19 kids running around making homemade pasta (and having to judge them all) would have been a bit unwieldy.

I thought one of the things Chicago had going for it was that it didn't cop out on staging the songs. Too many movie musicals these days opt for the "Let's just have the actors walk briskly while they sing!" method because they don't want to seem unrealistic or something. I remember that awful version of Phantom that…

Well, you sort of just re-explained the joke that I already explained. It was more in the "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" spirit than anything else. In other words, I agree with you.

I sorta just meant that the first three things are examples of basic rights being taken away, but there's still a huge divide in opinion on the topics, and it feels bizarre that this pop culture trifle is the thing that gets most people to agree for once.