Oh, definitely. At least he got to see that in some way, BMO is fulfilling its original purpose with Finn. Do we have an origin for when BMO first united with Finn and Jake?

I just watched this episode last night! I fell behind about halfway through the season, partly because I couldn't believe it was still running, and started catching back up this weekend. I thought that one was adorable. I love almost anything that focuses on BMO and for a character that spends most of his/her episodes…

I call my brother "brother" but that's mostly thanks to Arrested Development.

Then he dated Annie, right?

Glad to hear you were mistaken and you like this one better! I partly picked it up because an Oscar-nominated short film this year was based on an excerpt from it. That excerpt, of course, was brief and almost word-for-word the short film, and is already passed, but thankfully I'm enjoying the book as a whole a lot,…

I checked out Jacob de Zoet at the same time since it was right there, so if I can get through this one fast enough and like it well enough that one's next. I started Cloud Atlas around when the buzz over the movie coming out happened, didn't ever make it past the first part/character though. I need to go back to it.

Slowly, because I've been slogging toward a deadline at work and doing a surprising amount of social things, reading number9dream by David Mitchell. It's my first of his and I'm really liking it so far! I'm close to halfway through. It kind of throws you right into the kid's imagination in a way that was jarring at…

I would be lying if I said I didn't spend the majority of multiple evenings coming home from work, plopping on the couch, and not moving until my phone finally threatened dying and I had to plug it in. Just to go back to the game in a slightly different position, depending on the distance between myself and the wall…

My company doesn't do raises (not even cost of living) and hasn't in at least 4 years, so.

Thanks to you both for those links! I love quinoa too, but also struggle with being very original with it. I also have a desire to make that Guac Quinoa sometime soon…

Yeah, that is fair. I'm from a midwestern college town so many of the aspects were familiar, but not all. But enough people from small-town Midwest have praised its realism, I think it's safe to say he was pretty spot-on.

Absolutely. I haven't read this particular article yet but I remember last year's voter sounded sensible enough it was possible to consider he represented the thoughts and opinions of enough others to potentially be valid.

For sure. The fact that his cave collapsed/he'd found a new site to build on felt shoehorned in at the end. Perhaps that happened while filming, and they couldn't follow him around longer to document his new efforts? It seems like maybe they wanted to end on his final, as yet unfinished but growing masterpiece, then…

I don't know if I fully agree about them all being depicted as simpletons — I think there was some nuance in the way Woody's extended family was covering their past resentments/years of building up in their heads/presumably in talking to each other how Woody apparently wronged them with forced politeness. And having…

They did that same feature last year too, right? I seem to remember reading it and making a couple choices taking the voter's opinion into consideration. Then I was wrong and learned a lesson about one out of touch voter not speaking for the whole.

Fully agree on the length thing. I felt like Cave Digger could have gone the shorter route — by the end I think they'd hammered home "he's creative but difficult to work with" a few too many times. Or it could have focused more on his process/showing his work and gone longer. But as it was, it did drag.

I know the Golden Globes don't matter but the fact that the comedy category included Nebraska and even Her but not something like The World's End makes me feel sad and baffled.

It also reminded me of whatever song the men sing (about digging for gold?) at the beginning of Pocahontas. But that could just be the men's chorus/chanting aspect of it.

I also suspect Lady in Number 6 will win. The one about Yemen was a viscerally powerful view on political/civil unrest that's happening now, but something about the way it was edited/put together outside of the young mens' camera footage didn't feel to me like the best way it could have been done (though I don't know…

Did any of them even last a minute? I found it incredibly jarring how quickly/poorly he transitioned from one song to the next.