There are soooo many caveats to this discussion. The whole point of the "i before e" rule is to help in cases when it's not clear which letter is going to come first, and there's no easy data set for doing that. Not many folks are going around saying, "Hmm, is it 'freeing' or 'freieng'? 'Agencies' or 'Agenceis'?" …

Here in Portland, OR, we have Ground Kontrol, which is so damned successful that they recently bought the bar behind them so that they could double their floorspace. There's an entire mezzanine devoted to pinball machines, including some that have been updated with colorized dot matrix screens. If it wasn't so crowded…

I was surprised A Little Night Music didn't come up as being another instance of Sondheim making a musical out of a foreign film.

Whoa, I just realized that "We Didn't Start the Fire" came out a suspiciously short time after this ad campaign happened.

A C+ over Freddie Prinze Jr.'s face… Yep, that about sums things up.

Oops, I think you got the wrong Mara there, chief. And it's right there in the IMDB trivia, too!

I think we're missing the bigger question here:

Oh god, that title picture is from the Staten Island Advance, isn't it? I recognize the fonts. My borough's always known how to keep things classy…

The signs they put up when they were shooting near me all said "Brooklyn Taxi", so a name dispute does indeed seem likely.

Oh you may think you're outraged now, but just wait until the show premieres and turns out to be a bunch of repurposed Once Upon a Time in Wonderland footage with new dialog dubbed in…

Disney's master plan to secure all the necessary rights to release Muppet Babies on DVD continues apace!

So this show shares its central conceit with The Heart She Holler?  No wonder the networks were nervous…

I think I remember that horribly CGI-ed body of water used to cover up the Six Flags parking lot in the opening credits better than I remember any of the show's plots.  Granted, it was the early 90s, but so was Jurassic Park goddammit!

@kirivinokur Edie McClurg wrote her own IMDB bio!

@kirivinokur Edie McClurg wrote her own IMDB bio!

And lousy popcorn! I feel like that's one that often gets overlooked.

And lousy popcorn! I feel like that's one that often gets overlooked.

Here in New York I'll have you know that we spell our Angelika with a 'K', good sir!  It is the premier location for discerning filmgoers who enjoy listening to the rumble of subway cars throughout the whole goddamned movie.

Here in New York I'll have you know that we spell our Angelika with a 'K', good sir!  It is the premier location for discerning filmgoers who enjoy listening to the rumble of subway cars throughout the whole goddamned movie.

Actually, if people torrent it and then pay for it, they'll actually be saving Louis a whole bunch of bandwidth, since it'd have to be a hell of a server strain to send out a 1gig+ file to a ton of people at once, especially right now when it's just gone on sale. (It actually took me a few tries to get into louisck.net