Cost 16.5 mil, grossed 27 mil domestic. Success!

PIXAR *garbage*?

Tom's words to live by
I have a new TC catchphrase to trot out whenever incompetence makes me angry: "You don't win with deviled eggs." It probably won't supplant the immortal "It's a fucking burrito — you put your shit in it and you wrap it up," but it will have its uses.

The victim is a saint
He invented the umbrella swift and ball winder! I intend to erect a shrine to him.

I don't move in the right social circles to know that. What I hated was the way it was introduced. "Tramp stamp." "Tramp stamp?" "Tramp stamp!" Even if it wasn't a coinage, it was presented like a blatant attempt at branding.

Check the alt-text in the photo. Not overlooked.

The rubble was on fire. Just a little bit.

No, this is the line of the night
I've got an idea for a new character on HEROES whose superpower is close-up magic.

It ended with "padre" (predictably) but I never got to see the whole thing. Which is very frustrating to someone who took five years of Latin before college.

The way we were raised makes us who we are. We might really like who we are, but still resent what made us that way.

1. I'm happy to say I don't know. Yes, it's been that long since college.

A great American
I'm strangely happy at this sad moment that I happen to be in Chicago at an academic conference. The assembled professoriate observed a moment of silence for Studs at the opening weekend. He inspired several generations of students to believe in the potential of history and to document their own…

We're not much on vomit comedy in this household, after a bout of vertigo left my husband nauseated at the slightest hint of someone else being nauseated. But I think the Sandburg bit may have turned the corner. The part I loved was when the boom mic guy upchucked, too.

I should have mentioned her dry heaves. I've had my ups and downs with Kaitlin, but her performance on the standup stage was absolutely impeccable.

Just in case anybody's interested, DENMARK'S GOT TALENT gets a D+. The plus is for the gangly breakdancing team those wore oversized diapers.

Deluxe sandwich, side o' cole slaw since I had fries for lunch.

You are correct, Sensei. Fixed.

Slackling?
Watching a three-hour documentary about monks who never talk — FOR THE SECOND TIME.

Certainly not worst
I liked this a lot more than I had any right to expect. Noel focuses on the broad moments, but he's right that the show's laughs are all in the reactions to those broad moments — and especially in how Sam sometimes misconstrues how those broad moments are going to be taken. E.g.: He happily drags…

1. Muppets Take Manhattan = awesome.