Oh I definitely laughed at Black Dynamite, but with so few people in the theater it wasn't any better an experience than watching it at home. Movies like this are meant to be watched with as large and rowdy a group as possible.

It got two!

I linked to Johnny's song! I'm generally not into the type of music Johnny makes, but that's a great song. I liked "Free" too. I liked most of the songs Jes spearheaded, actually, and thought it was weird that the producers framed her as a less talented contestant flying under the radar.

Great points. RE: Kara, on American Idol it seemed like she was stifled by the live format, as well as the four-judge panel, which was never a good idea and forced all the judges to compress their feedback to the point of uselessness. But on Platinum Hit, which was entirely filmed before it started airing, she wasn't…

I agree with the point about Quinn and Rachel's behavior being somewhat understandable as it relates to Mary because they had no way of knowing her meds had been tampered with. But the bigger issue is Lilly Belle's involvement. When the topic of Kirk first came up between Quinn and Rachel, Rachel said Kirk "basically…

Holly drives me nuts too. She's like, "HONESTY IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TOMMY. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go steal from my boss's home."

Is my name WASP-y? Ugh, that's so frustrating considering Joshua Alston is a pen name I chose thinking it sounded much blacker than my real name, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Geoffrey Berenger.

Yup! Rowan Kaiser's all over it.

Jesus, I HATE when I make this kind of dumb-for-no-reason mistake. Thanks for noticing.

Oh my God, that's amazing. I love how Tracee phrased the question nearly identically to how you asked it.

You're mistaken. I was referring to the fact that Frankie introduced Lapari to Jeff, not saying she was introducing him to the show. Coincidentally, I revisited "Cork-Based Networking" the day before I watched this one, so I recognized Lapari. What I forgot about is the fact that Paget Brewster appeared in it as a…

David and Elizabeth have both handled the situation in an inappropriate way. There's no way either of them should be bringing dates around the kids this soon.

Was that not the weirdest thing? I'm trying to be patient with Taylor but she's been a complete brat all season.

You make some excellent points here, in particular the point about waiting to see if they bring B-613 back before nailing them for doing so. I get that, and while I don't completely agree, I think it's a fair argument. Here's my issue: I could live with a narratively satisfying soft conclusion or a narratively…

Thanks for sharing your story.

But whatever is happening, it's a helluva lot of it, amirite?

FYI, I cut this. There were a thousand better ways to make the same point. My apologies.

Was it really? As a huge fan of reality competition, this intrigues me.

Thanks for this! I'm still not seeing the picture though. I'm not making and would not make the argument that homophobia doesn't exist in hip hop, of course it does, but homophobia exists in every corner of society, and Empire suggests it's far more serious in the hip hop/black community when there's no support for…

Disagreement is healthy, but do you mind pointing me to some recent examples of homophobia in hip hop that come anywhere near what we saw from Black Rambo? I assure you this isn't that thing where I try to put you on the spot to suggest there are no such examples because you can't immediately come up with one. Take as…