Home in the South Shore with my family.  Some of my friends and family were in town to watch the race and thankfully they all got home safely before the shit hit the fan (if nothing else, yesterday renewed my faith in social networking).  I'm still in emotional freefall.

Every time I hear that, "I'm so 2008, you're so 2,000-LATE" line, I can't help but imagine and entire room full of writers in suits high-fiving each-other over such a creative and clever lyric.

Not if they own it on DVD and know how to work the player…

Hell yeah, that would be amazing… except the director said "No feathers" so, boo.

He was at the Boston Museum of Science a few weeks ago with several other paleontologists and indeed, it's damn cool to hear him speak.

Old joke, but boy the Park technicians were lucky to have only found the genetic remains of popular dinosaurs, never mind genre we already knew about.  I suddenly want a prequel that's just 90 minutes of guys hatching eggs, looking at what pops out, and saying, "WTF even IS that?"

AVIAN DNA!?!  Christ, they had all those emu eggs lying around…

Which implies that you were still on board after raptor gymnastics.

Look at all these noobs don't know who Jack Horner is.

So, a smaller piscaverous spinosaur?

"No feathers."

Later they re-imagine the entire series as a prime time cartoon with Annette and Frankie voicing dolphins and Joey voicing some other surfing sea-critter.  It bothered me that this was never ever mentioned in future episodes.

"Actually two failed Chem 2 experiments going kaboom" is now my fearless prediction.

Care to venture a guess as to which of these two lets Lynch's character grow and change as a person?

Personally, I "like" how in the initial trailer it looked like it would be the daughter who'd been out exploring against her dad's wishes who uses the skills she has taught herself to help her family survive as they're lost in the jungle. And now it turns out it's actually her new boyfriend who teaches everyone about…

@avclub-72085404bc24959bbd79392bc8ad27d0:disqus  It's especially bizarre because the first season had a couple of well-liked episodes about bullying that pointedly subverted the old trope of how mean people are just misunderstood and we can all be friends if we just try hard enough.  Because nasty, antagonistic people…

The sad thing about Dreamworks' characters is that the early concept art for them is usually really gorgeous and interesting to look at.  Then the executives come in and meddle them to death.  In particular, the shift from the original character concepts for "Rise of the Guardians" (ie Pitch as a shadowy entity with…

I suddenly want to watch that movie.

Say, Archmage, what's the policy on human/unicorn marriage in your realm anyway?  Or is this a thing that has never come up because it is too out there even for a magical land?

Because turning a villain who is defined by how little he gives a fuck about anything into a good guy always works out for the best!