11 Questions is a bit like Undercover—the best ones are about the people who are the most game and bring something interesting to an exercise to something that would otherwise be rote or awkward.

Americans aren't like Brazil corrupt; it's more like richer Americans are more likely to get housing subsidies than poor Americans because the people who do their taxes know what to do corrupt.

so yay we graduated high school. But it was on the third try of our GEDs and the regular high school was shit and the community college program wasn't much better, while we're squawking off to the world how great we are. Everything Easy is listing is more cosmetic than functional or structural. Yay, a gay couple can…

Yeah, and they had been losing a lot of writers and producers in the last few years of the show as well. There were people who had been at the show since the beginning who felt time was up somewhere around the time that Stewart was focusing more on Rosewater.

Eh, Stewart was always a ham.

because unless you're talking about some precious heirloom, "keeping it in the family" is the definition of incest. Quinn's world is incestuous. Her two love interests have been her executive producer and the owner of the network. Rachel's romantic interests have included a suitor, the DP, a suitor's cousin (not…

Ah, the cool uncles of the world. It also makes sense that there's still some sort of alienation since Boomers are healthier and living longer, but aren't retiring early because of economics.

I was thinking of the more cross-generational effect. Pokemon Go seems to be hitting some 25-32 sweet spot, while Zelda might have a bigger range.

I'm in my early 30s and always thought of myself as too old for Harry Potter even tons of people my age read the books, but I had already read LotR tons of times by the time HP came out (I think there's a natural demarcation right there). Also, around that time my interest in fantasy pushed me towards history. So…

That just means the people your age were (like me) teenagers when Pokemon was first available on Game Boy. If Zelda did an ARG the world would just fucking stop.

The St Vincent fanbase specializes in the special connection thing. It was always there (see Sean O'Neal's interview with her) but it blew the fuck up with the most recent album. She somehow got onto a really specific wavelength, and ran with it. And this is me speaking from personal experience. I don't think she's…

It might just be you. Strange Mercy feels really sterile to me. She tweaked some of the songs for the latest tour, and they sounded a lot better.

How on earth is Hot Fuzz sloppy? It is so fucking meticulous.

It's weird because back in the day 3 and 6 were the canonical best of seasons. More recently season 5 has grown in stature. I also have a friend who will defend 7 to the death, and I think she has a point, because there's a lot of foreshadowing and irony that gets missed as routine Buffy drama. The key point is…

also, crowd-pleasing =/= hysteria, since hysteria involves an unexplained origin that spreads virally, while a blockbuster is very much calculated and some degree of popularity is ensured.

Vancouver, BC.

Atlanta
Seattle (some nice parts in south part of the city, but the northern end is hell, and the city as a whole is a smarmy mess. Also, the beer is 25% more expensive than it is in Portland, even the mass-market shit that's made in Seattle.)
DC (I can't tell if people in DC are rude or just stupid because their…

the only encouraging thing is that every i wake up and find a new epithet for Trump.

I once had a Bud Light. That night was also the only night where I've been to a Waffle House. I would be ok going back to Waffle House.

The Brits didn't give a shit about football vs soccer until the Americans started caring about soccer.