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Professor Boredom
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Remember those news articles about the people who were obsessed with Avatar and went to see it literally every single day? Someone should really do a Where Are They Now? follow-up article about them.

I keep forgetting 1) Jon Watts directed this, and 2) who the eff Jon Watts is.

Last Saturday there were like four Newswires with ~30 comments each, and then one about the X-Men with 10x that many.

he combines his parents’ old Persian music with modern trap beats…

A decade later, I still say "oh ho ho dear reader" to myself at least once a week.

Newswire drinking game / death wish: take a shot every time a headline treats as absolute fact any unconfirmed story attributed to "sources."

I'll be posting this incredible "Ruth Wilson as The Doctor" concept pretty much non-stop until the next Doctor is announced: http://paulhanley.deviantar…

[A third Pearl Mackie enters, dressed in black and stroking an evil goatee]

Why not Pearl Mackie?

The only thing that felt off to me was how the viewers found out what the photos were before Amy & Garrett found out themselves. That scene wasn't necessary, since a line about reference photos could have been added to Amy & Garrett's last scene. I guess the show was running short this week?

No lie: I just read your comment on an elliptical!

I liked it a lot and now I'm really excited about it!

GUNN: The third movie will be a full-on, balls-to-the-wall gonzo gorefest. Audiences will be laughing and puking all at once…

To me, the weirdest phenomenon is how seasons are only ever called terrible in retrospect. Like, most people seemed to be enjoying the last two seasons at the time, but now most of what you see is people posting that they hope this season reverses the downward trajectory of the last couple seasons…

I remember reading an interview with whatshisname from The Killers, where he claimed that in their early days they had a guitarist quit because he "didn't want to play that New Wave crap," and then years later after they were successful they were eating at the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas and the dude was their waiter.

From an oral history of STEEL MAGNOLIAS:

Oh god, I saw that too. It reminded me of the bumper sticker: "I like Jesus. It's his fan club I can't stand."

His Robert Vaughn impression was my favorite movie voice work since Bane.

Just think how much better it's gonna be with all this extra time!