I think I've come to a major life decision.  I'm not cut out for grad school.  Maybe I was, at one point, but I'm definitely not anymore.   I'm going to defend my dissertation prospectus, and maybe someday in the future, I'll come back to it and finish it, but right now, I'm getting nothing but pain and misery from…

I can't Dean-ny, it can Changry up the blood.

@avclub-7f87bb91e1944c0485c54044a3d85c44:disqus —I'll let you have this one.

Um…The Streets of San Francisco.

The Worthy: 71/130
The Greats: 5/8
The Essential: 4/6
The Definitive: 2/2

I knew I wasn't the only one who recognized Rock of Ages to be a cinematic masterpiece!

I never really got into The Towering Inferno, for whatever reason—it just kind of struck me as a worse version of the same basic premise.  (With a less great cast and more inane/convoluted premise, to boot.)  And it's weird, but the ending song selection is just one of those things that draws me ever more in to the…

14?

Episode: "Blue" (Red Dwarf)
Reason:  There are probably better episodes even from RD that encapsulate the theme, but none that emphasize it quite so explicitly, or so much.  After his losing best friend/worst enemy, Lister sinks into a glum moroseness, so Kryten decides to remind him just how what he's missing,  Bonus…

Brett Somers!

I got a Kentucky Derby notification for this?!?!?!?

"Flag…on the play."

I win!  Thanks, @avclub-5905114b2a37b2b7b0a719d55ac35cd9:disqus !

The good news is, I'm still in the "excited to think about this research" mode, as opposed to my actual dissertation research, for which my enthusiasm has long since waned.

'Elp, 'elp, I'm bein' exterminated!

Do as I say!

I don't know why—goodness knows it's not an objectively good movie or anything—but I freaking love Mr. Destiny. 

You guys, I think I just had a brilliant idea.  I was listening to someone give an academic presentation on the production of femininity in white supremacist message boards (and it wasn't as interesting as that description sounds), and suddenly, it struck me—this research project is essentially a content analysis of a…

Wait—confounding grading…nobody's sure how to make sense of what they've seen, but they know it was an event…by Godfrey, the episode was a Holy Motors homage all along!

Oh, it didn't take that long.  There are several jokes in Austin Powers that were also in Wayne's World.  (And SIMAAM, for that matter.)