So is Samuel L. Jackson to this film what Matt Damon was to "Inside Job"?

Not the American people, the electoral college.

I feel you and I may have different conceptions of "distant".

I don't see how Kanye is a record company creation.

Yeah, the election (or this year) has basically turned the real world into the Internet. I was expecting that to have some good effects, at least, but they haven't seemed to sprout up yet…

It's a shame, we really need a better awards show for music. I annually get curious about what made the rap category nominations and am invariably disappointed (at least by most of them). David Bowie got nominated for "Blackstar" in Alternative, at least, for example, while Mos Def and Talib Kweli were hung out to dry…

Yeah, I find people overly hate on this book unfairly - I enjoyed it while reading it, even with its flaws, and I could totally see, had it become an episode of "Black Mirror", people would have fallen all over themselves to praise it. I'm also excited about Hanks being (relatively) cast against-type (sorta) so I'm…

It's actually Kendrick Duckworth.

Wasn't "Chicago" a musical?

This is honestly not that surprising to me…although I'm interested in seeing "La La Land," it does feel like it has at least a whiff of Oscar bait, despite the dearth of musicals in the last decade.

I was lamenting about how difficult it was to meet girls at my school the other day, despite how much easier my social life has gotten; and then later that day, I serendipitously cross paths with a girl I had a really nice conversation with earlier this year that I hadn't seen since then. I remembered a lot of details…

More people need to describe themselves or others with the adjective "groovy". I'm 100% serious.

True, but I was referring to what seems like unusually frequent celebrity deaths this year.

The deaths had to resume the day after Thanksgiving, huh? Damn.

Why in God's name Taxi Driver was not nominated for Best Original Screenplay, especially considering its BP nomination, I'll never know.

I wouldn't say a decade…more like a half-decade.

Bush was not this dangerous.

In the words of Nicky from "OITNB," "none of this was supposed to happen."

I wouldn't say he appears to be one…he's acting like one in this very particular instance.

to get a woman pregnant is, for reasons we’ll never be able to unpack, to “rout the kimmie in the boat,” “kimmie” also meaning stranger