I can't imagine how bland and ordinary my life would seem if I didn't have my devout faith in atheism.

Are you implying that Paul from The Kids Are All Right isn't a real person?!?

Although Red Tails wasn't particularly well recieved, I do think George Lucas will be less hated if he stops making movies using the franchises he helped create. If he makes a mediocre movie that's a "low budget personal film" then who really cares?

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was originally going to end with the characters getting stuck in a roofie cycle, so hey, it's all connected.

Sports are an example where there's sort of two ways you can interpret the rules. One is "You're not allowed to do X" and the other is "If you do X, penalty Y will happen to you." From the first perspective, doing X is simply verboten, whereas in the other sense doing X while acknowledging that you have the risk of…

I liked Iron Man 2. It was a disjointed mess, but there were a lot of rather enjoyable scenes in that mess.

It's hard to keep track of time with how much the episodes criss-cross between 2006 and 2012. (Is the big Cinco de Cuatro stuff in 2012? Because of all the election stuff it seems like it should be.)

BEES?!

It's a terrible joke, but it's also precisely the kind of joke Tobias would make in that situation, so I had no problem with it.

You can be privileged and disadvantaged at the same time. Most people are, really.

Parking lots only promote sprawl. They should have paved paradise and put up dense walkable housing. But that's 1970 for you, always focusing on its car-centric model of urbanism.

Seems like a better way of mocking conservatives than mocking libertarians. (Although even then of course it's still a ridiculous strawman.) The modern conservative movement has a weird conflict between its libertarian side and its side which wants a strong government to protect Real Americans. In a better made movie,…

Well, does Jesus help me search for porn?

If this has a breakdancing scene, that could save this movie.

I'd have to imagine Boise is probably a cheap place to film, and it's a decent enough stand-in for "generic suburban town."

If crushes were transitive, that would make romance quite a bit different.

Well, this is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps.

Was it a cat I saw?

No Country for No Men

He said Bush got about 50%, which is in fact accurate. The fact that he in fact got slightly less instead of slightly more is certainly a somewhat significant fact, but there's no point in getting up Skip's ass about it.