Way late to this thread, but I just wanted to agree heartily with you re: Walken in Catch Me If You Can and Sinise in Apollo 13.  Really outstanding performances, both.

Yeah that's one of the most brutal things I've ever seen on South Park.  Cartman's solution to his "beef" with Token is to murder him, but he preemptively justifies the act first.  It goes beyond just "Zimmerman is a racist dick" to "stand your ground laws were designed to permit white-on-black violence."  That's a…

Have you read Kenneth Jackson's "The Ku Klux Klan in the City"?

Adam Hochschild's "To End All Wars" is a great one-book overview of World War I.

I did a book report on The Anarchist Cookbook when I was 15.  Does that count?

What's your subject?

I've been working on researching my family history for about 15 years now.  It's been a lot of fun and I've spent more hours on it than I care to admit.  Lately I've been trying to put some of it up on the web so that it's not all just in my head and various file folders.

Mormons don't just collect records about Mormons.  They collect records about everybody.  You can browse around here:

The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street.

Googled it, here's the link:

Is it just me, or is there not actually a link to the piece we're being encouraged to read?

I always find myself referring to The Dead Pool in my six degrees calculations, because it's got Eastwood, Jim Carrey, and Liam Neeson.  You can get to a lot of actors through those three.

I cracked up at that line, too.  A lot of the little throwaway bits were really funny this time: the Mexican gangster's absurd stereotypical agenda ("we need to deal more drugs… but we also gotta make more crimes happen!"), the weirdly synchronized clapping of the black Republicans… plus I love that they take their…

That sounds like it could be a scene from Stephen King's The Stand, but I haven't seen the TV adaptation since it first aired (sometime in the 90s), so hard to say for sure.

That's one of my favorites too.  Hard to pick a scariest X-Files episode I think.  I still get freaked out by "The Host" - not the idea of a flukeworm monster, but the problem of what to do with a flukeworm monster once you've caught him.  The scenes of it being wheeled around on a gurney and crouching in the shadows…

They tempt them with Skittles:

Man, I spent like a third of my time playing Skyrim just walking around and looking at things.  I literally watched a sunset for the pleasure of it.  It's like a really awesome nature walk where you don't actually get tired from going and down hills.

That wasn't Kissinger's line:

For years I commuted to Newark, NJ for work, and eventually 21 South hits Newark proper and became McCarter Highway, which has lots of traffic lights on it, and so traffic would just back up onto the highway every weekday like clockwork.  And back when I was doing that commute the NJ Devils had a big billboard that…

Congrats, sir.