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"Daredevil ’s (1) two seasons score a combined 87 percent rating, Jessica Jones (2) has a 93 percent, and Luke Cage (3) a 96 percent."

[Someone else stands up] "Frankly I think Alison Brie is gouda, but Anna Kendrick would be cheddar!"

We've invented the Pontiac Aztec

Stay poke(d, potatoes)

The fact that people voted for Trump because he "tells it like it is" has supplanted "Bush beat Kerry based on their Vietnam records" as my go-to example of "nothing means anything in American politics."

Considering the meticulous balancing act it takes to get that little glass plate properly aligned so it turns without clanking around, I'm not too worried.

Arrogant? Obnoxious? I'll cop to both in excess.

He pops up in the James Baldwin documentary really unexpectedly, so I'd be curious to know more about his relationship with civil rights.

Counterpoint: The montage of him eating jam in Soylent Green.

*Moves story of ingenue and aging professor to Yale*

As long as novels are written by people whose self identity has been consumed by 7-8 years of convincing themselves that it's the former (and therefore can't see it as the latter), it'll stay in vogue.

For this book to qualify as "exceedingly charming" it damn well better have a moment in an English lit class where the main character says "If he's Byron, I'm Selin!" that's all I'm saying…

You might call this repository the Bay of Pics?

If you think that makes Whovian upset, you should talk to my wife!

I don't know, guys. Winston's great and all, but could he shoulder the load of a whole show?

I liked the Jess-Robbie pairing because it really exemplified what I like about this show: Everyone knows that Jess is annoying and often awful.

All those Democrat-leaning designers who screwed up the original ACA roll-out needed work, and they found it, okay? Just…it's bad now. It's like when Facebook changes. You'll get used to it, and people will forget that it was, and eventually it will lead to the Fascist collapse of America. It's just how things work.

"Do TV and no one will ever take you seriously again. It doesn't matter how big a movie star you are, even if you had the kind of career where you walked away from a blockbuster franchise or worked with Meryl Streep or Anthony Hopkins, made important movies about things like civil rights or Pearl Harbor, stole films

And the difference is…

It was hard for a minute there, but now we're all just ashamed of ourselves and a little sleepy.