MAG-NUM! I assume Higgins was like Superintendent Chalmers.

Yes, I should have said I liked the musical performance that was the monologue but decided to use fewer words since everyone would have known what I meant.

This movie came out in 2012, after her big break year, so I assume it was one of the many movies she did before she became known. Now I don't think she does nude scenes anymore, though if she's Marilyn Monroe in the adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' Blonde, she might. The scene here is she walking naked down the hall…

Well, you're more cynical than I am. I don't disagree that corporations love franchises because it's easy money, and I would agree that audiences may be terrified of originality and things that make them uncomfortable, but I would say they also like archetypal stories and stories with characters they know and love.…

Good TV critics I like seem to like it a lot. I'll get around to it. Enlightened I really want to see. I have HBO but for some reason didn't really pay attention to a lot of their programming.

I saw it! Megan McCormick remains gorgeous. But also pretty good show on the good things about Milwaukee and Detroit. It's very stupid big, historic cities and all once-thriving American cities are neglected by the federal government. But we need a stronger military! American priorities—they be wacked.

I guessed Russia—because of the oligarchy and thought they had lots of cows there in a mostly agrarian country—and then the United States because of our wealth and love of milk.

Never saw the show—I hear it's quite good if you don't need likeable characters—but that header image once again shows Lena Dunham has a good ability to constantly change her appearance. She's like a Costanzaean Two-Face!

I liked this episode more than you did, Dennis, and surprisingly in part because of Fallon, who does actually have talent as a good impressionist and song-and-dance man. Sure, he may blow his jokes on the Tonight Show and do childlike interviews, but the internet hive mind has so constantly criticized him that it was…

Disagree on SNL. I thought it was good. Fallon showed off his talent, why he has a late night show. He's a good impressionist and song-and-dance man; making the monologue a musical number of Bowie's Let's Dance was great.

Herzog's Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, which I ended up liking quite a bit after first thinking he was covering common internet subjects. But his philosophical/poetic inquiry into his subjects works here because the Digital Age readily comes out of science fiction and is a mirror to the vices and…

Whoa, their necks are snake-like. They can literally kiss their own asses. Nice.

Do the Lannisters always pay their debts, though, or is that something to say to cover up when they don't? They could be like the Republicans who get always get elected promising small government but always blow it up.

Likely. Lewis mentions Kahneman was writing that while he was writing his book. I had in mind to read the former after I finished Lewis's book, but didn't get around to it.

Related to that Kolbert article, Michael Lewis' latest book, The Undoing Project, is quite good. It's about the great friendship between two Israeli psychologists who took on the work of charting errors in thinking, with the depressing results that even experts in various fields will think badly, because the mind uses…

I wanted to mention this in the Boss Baby review (and I think I did), but here's just as good: actors are not precious or only artistic about the work. They of course do projects that will be very good and considered art, but they also do a lot of crap, for the big compared-to-ours paycheck and because they love to…

I'm gonna look for some cute radiators this weekend. Oh yeah.

I just started the book of Lost City of Z and, so far, so good. Funny the structure seems to be three men, who should know better, in different times embarking on the same perilous journey: we as humans self-protect by being self-deceiving about what could happen to us. Anyway, I would like to register a protest into…

Eva Green will be cast in the movie about this shitstorm. And it'll be a B movie with great artistic liberties like the goons try to beat up most of the passengers who rise up and fight back. In the sky, at 30,000 feet. In a lightning storm. With snakes and scorpions in the cabin. Okay, someone write this.

Good for you. I'd rather enjoy something than hate it, and really, really love at that too, but what are ya gonna do?