Damn, what set this off? The Newswire bitching spans several posts. Sometimes, it's just a slow news day. Thankfully, we don't have a Kardashian post (although we may get a pass through post about that Vanity Fair article on Yahoo! and the Kardashians taking up the pop culture oxygen).

Focus Group Guy: [after showing the kids some Star Wars] Okay, how many of the kids would like Star Wars to deal with real life problems like the ones you face every day?
[the kids cheer]
Focus Group Guy: And who would like to see them do just the opposite, getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic…

Apparently, Canada is a country music market? Less the metropolitan cities but the vast expanse between Vancouver and Toronto. Alberta is North Texas?

I know a guy from college who's in a Blink 182 cover band. He's a nice guy, I swear.

And we still have Looking.

Being the coolest tween alive, I collected comic book character cards and I had the Havok card. It would list his abilities as "able to project plasma blasts" and I was like, "What? He can produce energy from his blood cells?"

Because I have nowhere safe to share this but I have recently been very turned on by Carol Danvers. Long hair, short hair, helmet hair, doesn't matter.

What's almost as messed up is that the reinforcement that teenage girls are self-conscious and shy. They aren't once I get out of the chat rooms and we meet up!

It's the next single coming out!

All That makes me want to get my couch pregnant.

I thought she's more of a Caroline Dhavernas.

MEW looks half-Asian, amirite?

Haha sorry I was pursuing old comments and didn't see Andy's screen name so I couldn't recall. Andy's still great!

Goddamn, of all the minor Seinfeld characters, Patrick Warburton has got to be the one that played his post-Seinfeld hand the best, right?

Aw shit, you just summon the insufferable The Californians skit that last six minutes too long.

Someone needs to make a post-Pinkerton play list of actually decent Weezer songs to make one super awesome album (if there's enough songs to do that, that is).

I feel like she and Lauren Cohan can play sisters in a shitty romantic comedy.

Hey where's JudgeReinhold and the other podcast guy?

SMILF.

Speaking of shitty challenges, let's not forget that season where the first episode had players falling twenty feet onto a ropey trampoline-y thing and that tattooed mom broke her wrist, which I read afterwards she was still feeling the effects from.