I find the masturbation torso pretty weird, actually. Shocking? No. But kind of weird and not predictable.

"Handler-led"

They're not just cash-ins, but they're also not nearly the movie that Back to the Future is. That doesn't mean they're bad—they're not—but they're not phenomena.

As someone who refused to fly for years (from 1999 to 2005), my advice to you is to not let this fester. Don't indulge it by avoiding flights, drug yourself if you have to, but do it.

I can still remember my mom laying into my dad: "Holy shit! Why didn't you tell me it would creep into the intersection on its own?!"

Same here. Also, Erin Gray from Buck Rogers.

Eh, there was a lot to like about that book. I loved the way Simmons wrangled a huge cast. It was a fantastic premise and his scene-setting was amazing and perfect.

King agrees it's terrible, and that it was really compromised by the accident and its aftermath.

It's the masked ingratiation. First off, the person is hiding their true identity behind a grotesque—a caricature of merriment or foolishness or whatever. And then, their style is the epitome of a "try-hard"—someone who is trying so hard to be funny or entertain, and it's suspicious. Our natural reaction is that of a…

And yet, the scariest thing in what you wrote is the phrase "clown culture."

Just not daddy longlegs, they're venomous enough to kill a human. It's lucky their fangs are too short to penetrate the skin.

That's not how crime works, and for good reason. Crimes (unlike civil harms) are prosecuted by the people, because we, as in, the people, want people to not go around raping people—whether or not their victims are upset by it.

Mary Poppins is an amazing film that fantastically enriched my life. Fuck P.L. Travers.

Emma's great. Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins is about the hottest thing I've ever seen, and Emma Thompson is ridiculously… I mean, look at The Tall Guy, um, I seem to have lost the thread. Kate Winslet seems like she would be game, or Alex Kingston, even. Hm. At this point I appear to be painting the Internet with my…

Me and quarterdavid watched 2001: A Space Odyssey recently and the intermission was a perfect blessing for the "recorded film/streaming" age.

There are a few different processes to produce black and white, I'm led to understand (I'm igorant, myself). Apparently the Coen brothers tested many techniques for The Man Who Wasn't There to get the look they wanted, and settled on shooting on a color film and post-processing of some kind. So if the director said it…

It screams "I'm being ironically bad because I don't know how to be good."

I disagree. They're not piratelike and not modeled on pirates. Real pirates are outlaws and fantasy pirates are colorful independents. They aren't outlaws or independents but state-sponsored raiders. Their model is very solidly the Vikings, not pirates, even down to being wishy-washy about occupying territory—having…

I actually went to the effort of logging in for once just to say "me too."

Me too. The only other one is that I make the "bbtthbbbtthb" "car sound" with my lips when exiting a drive-thru, echoing the end of Tenacious D's "Drive Thru" skit.