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I'm not seeing the "I know I should like it" part of "I know I should like it but I just can't." Seems like you know exactly why you don't want to like it!

Oh, "Let It Go" is full of rage. It's a complete "fuck it all" song. I can buy that some people feel it's not earned, but to describe it point-blank as "triumphant" without acknowledging the deeper undercurrents of "fuck all y'all" in it seems a little disingenuous.

It's weird, because I watched literally every episode of this show during eighth grade/freshman year of high school, including the movies that had to be imported from Japan, and had a geocities fan site and even wrote a couple fanfics as birthday/Christmas presents for a friend who was even more obsessed with the show

Yeah, I recall some inexplicably long gazing into each other's eyes.

1) Would cut down on tourism dollars spent because nobody is going to watch gymnastics in Atlanta and then fly out to Chicago to watch basketball and then just quick jet out to California to watch some cycling and then rush back to Washington D.C. in time for the closing ceremony, etc. Anybody traveling would just

Some of the cities pulling out have hosted before, although none of them particularly recently—Oslo in 1952, St. Moritz in 1948. For the most part, Olympics infrastructure doesn't last that long—even stuff from Games as recent as Beijing or Athens has already been abandoned or neglected. The stuff that remains would

American cities decide against pursuing Olympic bids due to lack of popular support all the time; they just do it before they decide to prepare a bid rather than after they've wasted the money submitting plans.

For most of the locations, you'd have to spend almost as much updating the facilities as you would building them from scratch. Most Olympics venues end up abandoned after the Games unless they were pre-existing or can be repurposed somehow.

I'm guessing the problem stems from nobody wanting to be the city that hosts it every time.

Well, she did do Ten Things I Hate About You, so she did at least one better thing.

Zack entered Jessie's bedroom this way a couple times on Saved by the Bell. He didn't get his own guitar riff, though, and the whole "Zack and Jessie are best friends" thing was dropped fairly quickly and then it never happened again. Also Joey (and every other character on "Dawson's Creek") coming in through Dawson's

I think she's pretty too—just "normal person" pretty rather than Hollywood pretty. Even if you do believe that the guys she dates on the show are hotter than her, the attractiveness disparity between them is definitely smaller than the disparity on pretty much any hot wife/schlubby husband show.

Yeah, I understand that someone's perception is probably thrown off by the fact that TV generally consists of super skinny-minnies, but Kaling's a size 8, which is several sizes below the U.S. average. If you saw her in real life, as opposed to TV, I can't imagine she'd look anything but normal.

But that's pretty firmly solidified as a sitcom trope at this point, isn't it? It only feels weird in this case because it's a normal-looking woman with hot dudes instead of an average-looking guy with hot ladies, and we're not used to seeing that.

One weird old trick that is GUARANTEED to get you laid by your sister!

I'm glad I wasn't the only person out there to Google her after reading this article, and immediately become sidetracked by Other Anne Greene.

Whit Stillman, although for the purposes of this article, it doesn't really count, since when I first started watching him, it was ten years after The Last Days of Disco and it seemed like he'd never release anything again. So anything else he does after that just feels like a bonus.

Heckerling would still be working more often if she could, I think. That one seems mostly due to industry politics—she wasn't given much of a chance to rebound after Loser's failure (which probably had something to do with her gender, although that's a discussion for another time). I think her lack of work these days

Nah, I think the worst is when you wait years and years for something, and it still feels like it was slapped together in two months.

It was about what you'd expect. Sister Act 2 but with dancing instead of singing. Lauren Collins did fine, but her part was pretty boring, so not really worth seeing for that alone.