I know when picking a career, I asked myself, "Kettle—what is the one thing you hate to do most?" and then I did that every day for years up to the present. I've hated every minute of it, so it's been a good life.

Half-right. I don't usually go to superhero movies but this one got so much praise as more than a superhero film that I had high expectations. Who knows how I would have felt if I hadn't seen any of the reviews.

I read the first two books years ago and enjoyed them. The series is apparently much different but, save for the magic games, I'm liking it too.

I'm already watching S1 of The Magicians, and that's my limit of college fiction. But also we're all idiots, whether in university, young, old, it doesn't matter.

I guess "transcend" is the wrong word. I mean does something interesting with that limiting concept, which I would argue doesn't have to be so limiting. I think you can pluck superheros into any genre—dramas, romantic comedies, tone poems even—when the plot isn't formulaic and there doesn't have to be a big bad or a…

That reminded me of Emma Stone's similar monologue in Birdman.

Did I go through a time-jump, like a UFO abductee? Kiernan Shipka.

A culture critic who thinks violence (not to mention superheros and tropes) is overused in mainstream American cinema will find much support for her thesis in Logan, a movie that was fine when I watched it, but sours more and more after. Admittedly, I'm not the target audience—no longer being a young person and…

I can't get enough of her singing "Happy New Year" over and over in the song.

Yes, but that made her more endearing to me.

We have to protect our farmers. That's why we subsidize corn.

Midnight Special. What if an X-Man, or X-boy, grew up in a religious cult. Done as a neo-Western. Pretty good.

Related to that: I want to see Logan but haven't seen past the third X-Men movie. To be moved, as I assume I will be, should I see the other tales of Wolverine first?

Still got the vocal chops at 90.

Planet Earth II: Deserts: lion v. giraffe; hawk v. squirrel; bat v. scorpion; beetle v sand dune to get to the top and drink before the mist evaporates, and chameleon on the way down; male mustang v. male mustang to take over the harem; the cutest animal I've just been introduced to, the golden mole, traveling under…

Take it sleazy.

I do not like all the comments squished at the far right of the page. No, this is not good. (My actual comment is recommending Philip Roth's Plot Against America.)

No, don't look at his real name! You'll lose respect for him!

Somehow the political system finds and rewards guys like this. French Revolution (before the Terror) the whole thing.

He'll get his karma when the Earth is too sick to profit off from. Wait, he and his business masters won't live that long? Start working on cellular immortality, stat!