I heard that Peter Aguero piece on NPR a couple months ago, and it moved me so much I instantly friended him on Facebook. I went through nearly two years of nursing Master Sporks through an illness that nearly killed him, and Aguero's description of the anger he felt about his wife's health issues, compounded by guilt…

I think it's the "women just discovered BDSM exists, thanks to this series" thing that's most baffling. It's disturbing too, because the excerpts that I've read (a Tumblr feed posted the worst bits) suggests that the author's idea of BDSM involves mental and emotional manipulation/borderline abuse, which is absolutely …

I feel the same way about David Foster Wallace. Reading his fiction makes me feel 50% dumber (as in, I literally don't understand half of what he is saying), but I love his non-fiction.

Genuinely surprised that Patricia got picked at the end, considering Heidi was the only judge pulling for her.

Yeah, I was a little baffled about that. I don't know shit about fashion (or art, really), but I do know that you can definitely consider fashion to be art. That was a weird argument on her part.

Glee. Never watched a single episode, because I know I'll hate it.

I'm both, actually. I grew up in the Pine Barrens area of southern New Jersey, but I've spent most of my adult life in urban areas—Baltimore, Las Vegas, and currently New York City. I think that there is definitely still a stigma against blue collar types, but it's reinforced by these godawful TV shows that claim to…

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I can't help but be optimistic. King's had a good run the past couple of books, and it sounds similar to Insomnia, which, as incomprehensible as it was at times, I enjoyed.

You know, I've read the book several times, and I honestly forgot that Watson was black (though I do remember the cursing). I definitely remember Ullman coming off way more negatively, though (if I recall there was a scene where Jack calls him and starts trying to pry information about the hotel from him, and Ullman…

Jon Bernthal would make for an excellent Jack: you'll know when things start going to hell when he starts repeatedly scratching at his head. "Wendy, lemme ask yew a question."

Honestly speaking, if, and I'm sure it will happen eventually, they do another version, I'd love to see Edward Norton as Jack. Nicholson was just too crazy right out of the gate, and Weber was too goofy. As for Wendy, hmm…maybe Jessica Chastain or Judy Greer. As for Danny, build a time machine and go back to 1980 so…

The party scenes in the book probably *would* make for some great shots in a movie, but not an entire fucking movie about them.

I'm looking forward to Doctor Sleep. This, not so much.

Me too. And also wanting to give the finger while replying "How about one?" whenever anyone asks me for my telephone number.

Despite her insecurities about being a mother, she'll be a complete control freak. And the father, a Seth Rogen manchild type (hell, it could even be Seth Rogen), will have some sort of crisis halfway through the movie in which, after seeing how emasculated his fellow husband/father friends have become, he isn't sure…

I sense the presence of Katherine Heigl in this film's future.

This was a thing?

There better be a goddamn BeBop Cola machine in the background somewhere, or they can fuck right off.

Hey. I kinda liked 30 Days of Night.