Better than M.I.A.

I don't hate you, mbs. I think you're adorable.

aspiring screenwriter types
Save the Cat! is a pretty good book. Not my favorite writing book ever, but it's really not too damn far away, if you like the unpretentious approach that admits that most stories, deep down, work exactly the same way and that's how we like it. There was a sequel (Save the Cat! goes to…

"I was…fine…" pretty much summed up my response to Jeanine's win. I told my gf halfway through the show that I would *not* choke on my own bile if Jeanine were to win (or Kayla, really, but she'd already been eliminated by that point), and — I didn't! So that's good news for me, at least.

Yeah, dying as the victim of a crime is so classless.

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I think this was probably more enjoyable if you *haven't* been watching Torchwood. At this point, having semi-unwillingly seen the whole damn series (my girlfriend digs it, I tolerate it), I can't quite figure out what the hell they're up to. If you factor in the last season (or series, or whatever the fuck…

Dude, I had my beef with Children of Earth, too, but for real? Can we not descend to yelling accusations of homophobia at a guy who has been in the tv business and out of the closet for fricking decades? He wrote the original Queer as Folk, he wrote the only queer superhero on a major network anywhere on the planet.…

The average teen is 13-19 years old? How old is the exceptional teen?

Karalotz, I think they're suggesting that it is neither more nor less sinister than exactly what you just said: the more you see cool-looking smoking on camera, the more you think that smoking makes you look cool. I mean, these guys are clearly jackasses with way, way too much time on their hands, but you surely kind…

Steely, your pals aren't very good debaters, are they? I think a better answer to your question is that what separates the "real" religions from the fake (real in that they are *really religions,* not that their doctrines represent reality) isn't about origin stories at all, it's that they have hundreds and thousands…

Capt, you're a moron. Evan is great at what he does, but he has a tenth of the versatility of the other seven dancers up there. He doesn't "deserve" to be up there, except in that this is America's Favorite Dancer, and America does love its harmless, sweetie-pie white boys from the heartland. He's been outdanced in…

There was this whole vibe last night like you had to vote for Melissa and Ade OR ELSE YOU LOVE CANCER. It put me off the routine, which is sad, because as many people have mentioned by now, the routine didn't *need* that kind of vote-flogging.

lemme guess
So you have Sam Rockwell as the earnestly sensitive yet unassumingly heroic one, Nic Cage as the nerdy smart one, Tracy Morgan as the funny urban one, and Penelope Cruz as the girl. I hope I'm wrong, though! I want the movie to have all those types, but with all the voice actors rearranged.

Science fiction fandom is definitely one of those places where the troops are more militant than the generals. Genre lit — prose, film, television, comics, the whole shebang — struggles laboriously with gender, but fandom itself has a strong feminist sensibility, by and large. So I know you were being sarcastic, but…

Since when are we not supposed to blame people for trying to wring money and unearned attention out of other people's unhappiness? I blame the living shit out of her for that.

you talk like girls.
You know, I kind of like uptalk, but I like the other kind. Where it plays with the idea of doubt and certainty and multiple perspectives and ends sentences with an implied, "this is my thought — please respond, over!" that invites people to participate in conversations.

Tom, I don't think "metaphor" means what you think it means.

Yeah, here's the thing: sure, women like the sex and the violence and all that, but none of the women I know would watch True Blood just for that. Women do tend to like the soapy drama, the plotty twists and turns, and the relationship craziness, and we do tend to attach emotionally to the characters. It's just a…

Yeah, what a douchey comment that was. The hero of the show leaves the stage in a fucking coffin, what are you even talking about? I realize dancers aren't paid to be smart, but try not blathering on during your BROADWAY number about a show you clearly haven't seen.

Hey, that's a slow day for Free Republic. They had a super special time a few days back calling Malia Obama a ghetto-trash whore and taking bets on when she'd have her first abortion.