"He was sick with experience." I show that scene to my students, but that line has never resonated as much as it does now.

I stopped watching True Blood years ago, but I still
get a kick out of the reviews and comments. I'm actually going to miss
the show (unlike anyone who actually watches it, apparently).

CHARACTERIZATION SPOILERS I GUESS

This is where I admit I've never seen The Godfather and you stare at me like I'm the worst kind of human scum.

My ancestors were the opposite, in that they apparently were poor Scots who eventually wandered over to Ireland to sponge off slightly less poor Irish relatives. I can only assume our family tartan colors include the blush of shame.

I'm a younger sibling myself, but I really empathize with eldest children. That's kind of a shitty gig. You get the parents at their most uptight, you blaze all the trails (and then watch when your two-years-younger sibling gets things at the same time as you when you had to wait), you're held responsible for your…

Screw that. There's nothing worse than someone who chooses a path time and time again and then resents the path he's chosen and the people for whom he chose it.

Man you're nuts. I LOVE being the middle child. The older sibling wears them out, the younger sibling gets most of the attention, and there you are in the middle, loved and supported but left alone to do your own thing and be who you want to be, even if that person is a little weird. At least that's how it was in my…

Target used to do a wasabi mustard chip that was divine. My biggest grudge against these wasabi ginger Lays is that they are not those.

I know it's shallow, but . . . Jessica's hair is just so pretty.

Jasmine was amazing in that routine. I wanted to be a little irked because they brought her back for hip-hop (I know she's black but she's contemporary, SYTYCD, God!), but she killed her hip-hop routines in her season and she killed this one too. I like Emilio and have re-watched that routine a few times since to try…

It was SUCH an old man joke, and he was so pleased with it, that I couldn't help but like it.

I find the Rudy/Jacque narrative not just annoying, but disturbing. When they were standing together before their dances and Cat said something teasing, and Rudy mugged for the camera but Jacque kind of feebly shook her head, I felt really bad for her. I mean, maybe they're actually together or agreed backstage to the…

I'm sure the author didn't intentionally use that cliched phrase in order to subvert it or anything.

That's good steel.

Like I swear he attempts the accent exactly once — when Little John challenges him and he says something like, "I'm afraid I've l've lost my SWORD" (caps = faux English accent). And that's it. For every other scene, it's pure California.

"For ONCE in my life I will have SOMETHING pure!"

I struggle to bite through the seaweed wrapper and end up just smooshing the contents out into my mouth like boudin. See above re. life, hard. I do enjoy eating things with my fingers, though, so I'll certainly give that a shot!

I have that problem with sushi. Some pieces are just too big to comfortably eat in one bite, but I know it's a desecration to saw that shit in half (not to mention really hard to do with chopsticks). Life is hard, y'all.

Mellifluous parity.