When I was in high school (circa 1998 or 99) I saw a PBS documentary on the making of a musical about disabled teenagers who share an online chatroom.  I don't recall the songs being too good, and the bits of plot I remember seemed a little on the nose (I remember a character named "Lucky" dies in the third act, of…

I find it interesting that the young couple gets progressively less likeable in each season, to the point where I wanted to shake Sara Polley and tell her to get over that dickbag she's pining for.  Given how carefully crafted and witty the show is, I can't help wondering if it's designed that way, but they never…

She's one of the highlights of the Dawn of the Dead remake, though that barely counts as praise.

I looked her up on imdb, and apparently my wife (who is also from Chicago) had episodes of Road to Avonlea on VHS as a kid and watched them over and over.  She was born in the wrong country, apparently.

No doubt Senor Bagofcrap, contrary to his name, is referring to the very real phenomenon that black people are more likely than white people to die from most illnesses (even if you control for factors like income and availability of health care).

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The Anglo-Saxons called that system "war-gold."  I didn't realize it was still active in the 80s.  Can we blame Reagan/Thatcher for that?

@avclub-011d0b4fe6835bb3d37ef4e0ea713de6:disqus , regarding the carseat thing - babies have extremely large heads relative to their bodies and such poorly developed neck muscles, so they can experience fatal brain trauma (it's sort of like "shaken-baby syndrome") from rapid-deceleration accidents at less than 20mph if…

When the movie came out I was annoyed that they were so poppy, because I was a teenage shithead.  I still don't love pop-punk, but the soundtrack is solid, and watching the movie made me sorry I didn't have a tweenage daughter to share it with.

Well this is adorable - I just looked up Josie and the Pussycats on Amazon, and in addition to the PG-13 version, there's a (out of print) PG version.  I like the idea of the gritty director's cut being rated PG-13.

I'm pretty sure there was such an inventory maybe 5 or 6 years ago?  Something like, "x number of songs owned by movies."  Personally, I think that Tarantino owns Misirlou and Stuck in the Middle With You, which weren't prominent until they became synonymous with hit men discussing McDonalds* and cops having their…

so what you're saying is… the backstory of this movie involves 1) intergalactic war, 2) developing cloning technology, 3) cloning einstein and fermi, 4) educating them on a century of advances in physics, and 5) einstein, fermi, and a sexy physicist played by jennifer lawrence developing humanity-saving…

that's also how you can try to play morrowind, but the sneak mechanics are so wonky in that game that sometimes you can pickpocket a guy while standing directly in front of him, and other times you're detected stealing from a jar even though there's not a single npc in sight.

i love when i assume something is an impenetrable reference that i'll never understand and then realize it's a clever puzzle.

there's a mod that lets you start the game in a different location and then pick up the main storyline later if you choose.  apparently you can start as a dark elf living in the slum in winterhold.  seems like an ideal choice for a thief or assassin, but i'm not starting a new character in skyrim anytime soon.

my primary character in skyrim is a nord, and i played the stormcloak side of the civil war.  i was a little frustrated that you never get the chance to turn on ulfric and kill him for being an unlikeable jagoff.  but seriously, at the beginning of the game the empire is going to execute you - how do you get past that?

Oh, don't worry, whatever Brony wrote that comment is too busy with his fruity-flavored schnapps and his pornography to do any harm (or good) to anyone.

That's a fair point.  If Bieber were 13 and wishing Anne Frank had been his friend, I'd be a lot more lenient on him.  But he's a grown-up.  He can reflect that maybe his celebrity has nothing to do with the Holocaust.

Fuck it.  I get that he's emotionally stunted and no doubt trying desperately to wrap his perfectly coiffed head around the idea of a young person dying for no reason at all.  BUT he's old enough to be a college freshman.  If he can't crawl out of his own asshole long enough to realize that the fucking Holocaust…

YES.  When I saw this on another news site, initially I was like, "Oh, that's dumb," but the more I thought about it, the more it occurred to me that there is seriously no excuse for filtering the murder of a teenage girl through the myopic worldview of a pop star.