I quite liked that book myself, actually. I think you're far from the only one.

Of course, I just saw some asshat on Reddit say that having too many LGBT scenes in Beyond or in Fuller's new series would be "SJW propaganda," so Trek does have disappointingly non-zero fans who completely miss the point of the franchise.

I would pay seventy thousand dollars to see Mae Whitman as Squirrel Girl. That's *perfect.*

It's really sad. I'm kind of intrigued and optimistic about Beyond, but Paramount seems to have no clue how to market it. So a little-promoted film that opens with the destruction of the Enterprise is how we're celebrating the 50th? That seems…off.

*cough* I thought the Tintin movie was a lot of fun. It was a much, much, MUCH better Indiana Jones movie than the last Indiana Jones movie was.

I'm talking about Arlington, TX, specifically. The Texas Rangers are getting the city to pay half (though due to some sketchy-ass wording in the proposal, it may be more than half) to tear down the Ballpark in Arlington and replace it with a new stadium, only a short time after Jerry Jones got them to pay another…

I never said I didn't get the appeal. I said I'm not "into" sports on any level. Understanding why others are doesn't mean I'm also into it ("into it" implies, to me, that I find joy/pleasure/enjoyment in at least some aspect of "sports," which I don't. I get that running around a stage playing a guitar or whatever…

It's happening here right now with a baseball stadium sold originally as "designed to last for a hundred years!" that's barely made it to 20something before the owners come begging the local city in question for a massive handout to build a new one. And they aren't even done paying public money for the absurdly…

Only if you'll stop billing me for excessively-huge car-dominated roads that destroy neighborhoods.

I perform loud, energetic music in a couple of bands, so yes, I do.

I dunno, a lot of us have trouble seeing how the Abrams movies are in any way an improvement other than in the effect budget. There's some really, really bad stuff in both but especially STiD.

There's a difference between "never particularly cerebral" and "completely braindead," though.

"So, HateSong as a feature irks and dissatisfies you so much you want the feature wiped out?"

Have to clear the way for more GJ,I! and twelve more GoT articles per week.

Of *course* it's for more GJI crap. Count on it.

I'm cautiously optimistic for the film itself and want it to be good.

I don't get the love for TSWLM's theme song. It's one of my least favorites - apart from A View To A Kill and Live and Let Die, almost all the Moore songs I find to be unlistenable. They're either train wrecks (Golden Gun) or easy listening snooze ballads (everything else besides AVTAK and LALD).

I don't get why it seems like an ordeal to have music on your phone. I'm not going to listen to 10,000 songs on every trip - I don't have to have them all synced over. I typically sync a large batch of favorites to the phone, and stream anything else I might need. I have a 5 gig/month plan and never go over. Phone…

I'm 33, but fully admit to not needing physical media for road trips - it's all on my iPhone, and my car setup is simple but effective: a power outlet charger that plugs in and charges the phone *and* takes line-out audio from the phone's Lightning port, sends it through a pre-amp in the charger, and into the car's…

I don't know that Pet Sounds is "puzzling" - Brian's production techniques had been advancing by leaps and bounds on the albums leading up to it, as evidenced by many parts of Today! and Summer Days (and Summer Nights). The songwriting took similar leaps and bounds in the run-up to PS, as well, though obviously Tony…