I couldn't believe there was no mention of "Where The Down Boys Go" in the obit. That song fucking slays.

Sherman-Palladino wrote the show into a (really annoying) corner before she left. The guy who picked things up did about as well as could be expected, all things considered.

"Wildly inflated ticket surcharges"
…is redundant. Fuck you, everybody who sells tickets.

If there's no difference between supermarkets, why is Safeway asking $10.99 for the contact lens solution I get at Fred Meyer for $7.99 (or for $6.99 at Target when I can get there, which is when there's no traffic on I-5, which is never)? Hmm? WHY??!!

Thanks Carrie!
It's unlikely that I'd have checked out this show had I not read the review of the pilot, but I read, I checked, and I've enjoyed the hell out of this first season (or…first third of the first season? Whatever…). So thanks for that writeup and this one. Now the inevitable question: any chance of regular…

One thing "Lessons" lacked? Space hippies.
"Lessons" has always been one of my favorite episodes, almost entirely because of the music aspect. The scene where Picard and Daren jam out on "Frere Jacques" never fails to give me goosebumps. I just love how it starts out so simple and builds to that gorgeous ending as…

Ugh, I hate you for making me remember that. That song always sucked, but combined with that terrible video they made it was an unholy mess of suckitude.

No
I think my tolerance for Ben Stiller may be slightly higher than that of the general populace, but this is a bad idea. Danny Kaye was the shit, and attempting to fill his shoes would make ANYONE suffer by comparison, even a much more talented actor than Stiller. Cf. Johnny Depp vs. Gene Wilder.

If you have the BSG skin, and the last few blocks of your drive are kind of disappointing, do your passengers whine about how it retroactively ruins the entire trip?

It's a fact!
In New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson is known as "Fairly Ridiculous".

If there's a better place than Powell's to while away a chilly, rainy Sunday, I don't know what it is.

I'd love an explanation of how "retard" is two morphemes. Because it's not.

Well, certainly a lot of people at the time thought we were overreacting, and I get why one might think that. But, while I hate to play the "It's a gay thing, you wouldn't understand" card, I don't know if I can adequately explain the excitement we felt about the Willow/Tara storyline and what a gut punch it felt like…

I was a Kitten Board poster back in the day, and not for one second do I believe the story about Tara's return or that Whedon "made it up to get back the goodwill he had lost with [us]." I think he made it up because he was pissed that Amber wouldn't come back and because he's a dick.

Lizzy Caplan
So fucking cute. Fuck.

Yeah, it's an issue. It's hard to imagine somebody wanting to work for less than minimum wage (although maybe that's part of your point), but to use an example from real life: I went to a Pride event recently, and the news cameras ALWAYS focus on the extremes of LGBT expression. They're not interested in a…

I see Martin Short and
I immediately get Jackie Rogers Jr. in my head: "Pardon me MISH, but I've never done THISH with a REAL. LIVE. SHQUIRREL."

It's my understanding that he's not a strong swimmer.

I should have been more clear. What I meant was, "not judging her as anti-feminist or anti-woman". What I'm getting at is, if a woman chooses to live her life like she's Betty Draper, that's her business, and there's no reason that can't be a valid choice. I just get annoyed by feminists, second-wave feminists in…

On your first statement, we'll have to agree to disagree. On your second, we're in perfect concord.