I saw Cake in 2004 (I think? maybe 2003), and I don't think it was their best show. It seemed like a couple of the band members had partaken a bit too much and were not really at the top of their game that night, musically speaking.

They were a lot of fun. I know what you mean - I really wasn't a fan of the post-Page album I checked out a while back, but the current lineup still has a very nice repor on stage.

The article is very clear that the children are well cared for by their mothers, aunts, and uncles. Just because they're not being raised in a way familiar to you doesn't make this way wrong. Try not to be so judgmental of cultures that are different from your own.

Other parties are a lot more than moderately confident. If the NSA is willing to go public with that much, they're pretty darn confident.

Oh, no, she unironically enjoyed them. Also, her favorite actor was Vin Diesel. Just all-around atrocious taste in movies and tv shows.

Yeah, it was the reunited group.

I had a roommate whose favorite movie was From Justin To Kelly, and who otherwise had terrible reality tv shows playing 24/7 (remember The Swan?). She was a lovely person, but that was hard to put up with.

A couple years ago I saw a show when Ben Folds Five and Barenaked Ladies were touring together, and that was really fun - those are both groups that have great energy in their live performances.

I suppose it depends on what counts as recent - Fragile Things is the most recent book I can think of, and I think that's been a few years now. That being said, I really enjoy a lot of his books for kids. Chu's Day at the Beach is one of my daughter's favorites right now.

I think it has good musical performances, and a lot of the people in it are clearly having a good time. I watched it a lot when my younger cousins were going through a big Beatles phase, and it was definitely a better babysitting option than some of the others (any Land Before Time but the first one, for example).

Have you read the Five Fists of Science? It seems, based on that description, like it'd be right up your alley. Only, they battle JP Morgan and Edison, not Roosevelt. But there's still dark magic.

It doesn't have to be either or. Tesla and Edison could have both been jerks (and possibly were!). Edison definitely was an asshole though. He took credit for the ideas of others, and wasn't really that great a scientist. He didn't reason his way to discoveries, he just brute forced his way through every possible…

Please tell me they're going to base this on the Five Fists of Science

Seeing the whole thing at once, zoomed out like that, made me realize that it's not the right shape. I mean, obviously TV apartments are always too big, but it's also not remotely square, which I guess must be true for most tv apartments. When they show you just one bit at a time your mind makes angles square that…

Between Russia, the Trump administration, and long-standing mass surveillance (corporate and gov't), you'd think any conspiracy nut would have more than enough real shit to worry about, but it seems like having no real proof is part of the appeal. If it's actually real, that takes the fun out of it, maybe?

That's what I thought - they were playing the lessons and emotional beats a little broad, in a way that came off less funny and more just cheesy.

Any episode of @Midnight with Funches on is must-see for us. I agree that he seemed like the best thing about the show so far.

Yup! The Happy Prince was my least favorite story in a fairy tale collection that I otherwise loved as a child, and when I later found out that it was an Andersen story, it completely made sense.

Cool! When my sister was dating a professional extra we kept having to sit with them and try to spot the moment where he's standing in the background while (Lincoln/Batman/whoever) does something interesting. I wasn't such a big fan of that particular bf, which made the movie scavenger hunts less interesting.

Ohh - I feel sort of dumb now, but I hadn't actually connected the humans sailing off in Stakes with the Founders. Maybe because they seem so different, philosophically speaking.