I still haven't watched it, because my heart can't handle that kind of sympathetic embarrassment. But when I heard about it, my first thought is the people on the Today show are fucking assholes. Not the first time I thought that.

I think it was relatively well-received by the writer. I've noticed the writers using the Royal We quite a few times on this site when presenting opinions. Though, I think that might be in the Associated Press Stylebook now.

Does ANYONE else remember the hot mustard sauce at McDonalds? Not Honey Mustard. Get the fuck out with your honey mustard, I mean Hot Mustard. It was a dull yellowish brown. It was glorious. They discontinued it, and I think my family were the only ones to mourn it's passing or even knew it existed.

This role and Willy Wonka are my favorites of his, like pretty much everyone, but the thing I like the most about both performances is the quiet. As zany as he could be, he knew exactly when to play a line low key, and it brought a genuine sadness and world weariness to those roles that elevated them. That and his…

This really hit me hard, because I am a perpetual assistant. I really bought into the "you can do anything if you are willing to work your way up from the bottom" but what happened to Laura has repeatedly happened to me, and I've even been presented with direct evidence of it, just like Laura. Everyone wants to…

Best single line of dialogue ever. I also used "Isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, the sky is the limit." as a yearbook quote.

Yes. I grew up in Jersey, so the three artists young people liked that they ordinarily shouldn't were Bon Jovi, Springsteen and Billie Joel, who we had on loan but didn't seem to care. Of the three, I couldn't get down with Springsteen. He not only seemed like Dad Rock, but it was like, glum, dire Dad Rock. The hooks…

It's mildly racist in the way that everyone on Earth is mildly racist. You can have a bit of a thing for "half Japanese girls" without being a monster, and you can enjoy this song without feeling the need to apologize for it. At least for that reason.

That little moment when Amethyst nuzzles Steven at the end was such a beautiful bit of animation. It will keep me warm in the winter months to come. That is all.

Ha! Then I officially quote nothing from Family Guy.

I've heard/read that a few times, it's not quotable. Quotability takes time. Who knows what we will be randomly dropping into conversations a couple of years from now? I would have never guessed the only Family Guy quote that makes it into my conversations regularly is "Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply…

Aren't people actually trying to reach white people with #BlackLivesMatter? Aren't they the intended recipients of the message? I didn't think it was commiseration, I thought it was meant to bring attention to a problem that many people don't think really exists. In which case, maybe these examples are inelegant but…

I thought Pearl's song was really beautiful. And she really has such a lovely singing voice. I usually have no patience for Pearl's shit, to be honest, but that song almost sounded like something out of Sondheim. I would add it to a Broadway playlist in a heartbeat.

I really appreciated John Cho's take on it. He carefully considered every possible objection, stated them articulately, but still defended the overall choice as coming from a good place, with good intentions. Which it undeniably is. I think this needs to be the overall Think Piece approach. If every step towards…

I think I'm mostly disappointed that ol' T Swift played this so poorly. Even if she wasn't expecting the lyrics to be quite that harsh, a simple "Hey, that's art" shrug on the red carpet would have made the whole thing blow over. Someone who is so singularly obsessed with whether or not everyone likes her was going…

I think there are some legitimate gripes. TXDoT already felt the need to issue a public service announcement about not driving and catching in Texas, people have been complaining about people entering churches randomly and then essentially loitering disrespectfully, people wander onto private property, scaring home…

I was quite a scardy cat as a child, so I watched the kiddie-friendly versions of a lot of 80's entertainments before I ever saw the film. I suffered the double heartbreak of finding out both Slimer and the Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice and Lydia were not BFFs Forever in their original movies.

To clarify, I think I agree with you. There's been a lot of kids entertainment that has been dipping their toe in these waters lately, starting with Dumbledore in Harry Potter. But few have gone all in, and I think the reservation has to do with the fact that yes, many grown adults do immediately jump to "sex" in…

Definitely. It is also adults who will insist that two female characters are really just close friends if it is not otherwise explicitly stated, even if the story beats are the same as a chaste heterosexual romance. That's why its hard to say, I think, if making Elsa gay in a way that satisfies the community is really…

Eh, I get people being hung up on the genital sucking a bit. Culturally, a dude and a lady who are not related spending time with each other is shorthand for sex. It can be extremely chaste, but the understanding is that these people will bone later. Just because this is how all stories have worked.