It worked for Rizzoli and Isles.

I dutifully accompanied my mother to a showing of this.  I was the youngest person by far in the entire theater.  I am 34.

"Now in this scene, I want you to lurk in the shadows and watch the other characters do stuff.  Fantastic.  Print it.  Now let's shoot the fourteen other scenes where you do the exact same thing."

Hmm.  If I sheepishly admit that I feel like kind of an asshole for not liking this movie the way everyone else seems to, will you settle for a gentle chiding instead of a fight?

You have good fundamentals.

What's the over/under on number of episodes before it's taken behind the woodshed and shot?

Even that thing where he was cast as a mob boss?  I like him, but Hello Kitty is more intimidating.

This has happened before - this weird situation where chefs are asked to take an inspiration dish and make something new out of it, and are then chastised for not making a perfect copy of the original dish.

Not that I'm defending her (well…maybe a little), but I took that in the vein of her trying to avoid getting accused of backstabbing later.

Maybe she just watches a lot of Rachel Maddow, who also says that from time to time as a joke about old-fashioned people who aren't internet savvy.

Wow.  Thank you for this. Now, how do I make this my ringtone?

This turned out to be a weekend of "meh".  Saw The Muppets, which was good when taken on its own, but disappointing as part of the Muppet franchise.

News Channel 5:  Where the news comes from people clearly hired before the advent of high definition television.

It did.  It's a decade later than Ally McBeal, and this time, the woman who can't handle bisexuality is a sex columnist in the most sophisticated city in America.  And the audience is asked to identify with her "traditional values" on the matter.  How far we've come.  Or, you know… not.

Hopefully this doesn't create a critical vacuum, leading to a scenario in which Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz are allowed to return to the airwaves.

I will "go a fur piece" to mention that Light in August was terrible.  Or perhaps I just hated it because I'm a big fan of punctuation.

Calvin's constant battles with Rosalyn were one of my favorite parts of the series, but I had never seen the strip linked above where they play Calvinball together.  It makes me love that relationship even more now.

Neither Down With Love nor Big Fish were bad movies, but that attempt at an American accent….  Yikes.

A wizard did it.

I don't agree with Dan Savage about everything, but I do enjoy his position on NALTs (Not All Like That), which is basically, if you resent that stereotype, take it up with Tony Perkins, not the people who have just cause to treat all members of the religion with fear and suspicion.