Thanks, and good luck!

Congratulations! Great job!

Weight Loss/Fitness Thread

Thank you! I hope so as well!

Happy birthday!

Hey, I got that same email!

I also hate polos. I was actually annoyed when my office switched to business casual every day this summer, because that almost requires a polo and they're just the worst things ever.

Happy birthday and also congratulations!

Running Away From My Birthday Thread

I am going to California (from New York) on Saturday morning with the family (parents, sister, other sister, brother-in-law, their two kids) until Thursday, then flying to Portland to visit one of my oldest and dearest friends til Sunday, then flying back to New York/reality and returning to work on Monday. Looking…

You had lunch?

I somehow knew the TI would feature Getaway.

@avclub-130f14e3e5c0263f013b56d8c212f26a:disqus , right, I knew I was talking about it recently with someone.

@avclub-ecbdad96460f85751944de9d6c2d50fe:disqus No, I put it there because I am a teller of uncomfortable truths that people need to hear.

Except for the fact that it's ostensibly based on a line of toys and a cartoon show, there is very little about Masters of the Universe that lets it qualify as a "kids film." Which is probably part of why it did so terribly.

Well, agree to disagree, I guess. I'm sure it would have been an enormous flop either way when it first came out. But if you (not necessarily you specifically; the generic "you") were watching TV late at night in, like, 2002, and came across some movie you'd never heard of called Escape from Dinohattan, and it was…

You really have to dig pretty deep to see the parallels. It's only there if you really, really, really want it to be.

That's, just, like… your opinion, man.

That Kirby business is definitely there if you want to look for it, and there are a lot of Kirby-esque elements in the current MotU comic from DC, which is roughly a thousand times better than it's got any right to be.

@avclub-0527c4449619569cd565d724216aea04:disqus Probably to avoid inevitably unfavorable comparisons to Breaking Bad.