I find it interesting that the Star Trek episode "The Omega Glory", first aired during the week between the New York and Los Angeles premieres of Planet of the Apes — That's the episode that infamously takes place on a planet where Spock matter-of-factly explains that the native humanoids' evolution mirrored Earth's…

If they never actually detonate it, how can they truly believe it will work?

And, of course, it's kind of an asshole about it…

I agree they'd stay together, if only because Dobler is an obsessive eccentric who essentially decided before the start of the film that his life's purpose was to be her pillar of strength. He's essentially the mirror image of Rabin's "Manic Pixie Dream Girl": The "Stable Stoic Dream Guy".

It was clearly stuffed with company-run 'bots, but the Gizmodo report that claimed the most astronomical M-to-F ratios was using some dodgy data. At one point I think they claimed that the number of "real women" on site was in the low thousands, or even hundreds, vs. millions of guys, which just seems way wrong — at…

Depends what you consider "better". I've long recommended that women make the first contact on dating sites, simply because the odds you're playing seem inherently better. Women who lament getting nothing but a ton of loser messages should realize that the guys they're hearing from really are the worst 1% that's out…

The headline reads like the elevator pitch for some kind of giallo revival. Is Morrissey collaborating with Goblin now?

I would think the family tradition would be cheesemaking.

But he's made Hell great again.

…the show’s favorite and perhaps only advice for struggling comics: that authentic autobiography is the best way to find your voice.

"Tough crowd. Wish they spoke English…"

Back in my college years I had four burly friends packed into my car, and needed to stop in at a shopping mall for some last-minute Christmas shopping. The mall was truly packed, and we could find no open parking space until we saw a Porsche in an outer sub-lot angled across two spaces. My friends piled out, picked up…

Wasn't this a major plot point in Manhunter?

Similar to what I suggested to @WhatsWrongWithWensleydale above, the public auto restroom and its fittings could well be the car-mind's rationalization of a human rest stop,

If it was '80s vintage, and featuring Paulina Porizkova, I'd be up for it. As a straight guy, I'm fairly good at marginalizing the guys in my porn.

Drive-in car races make at least as much sense as cyborg cars having sex. And perhaps seeing the stands as full of cars is simply how a car-mind makes sense of a human audience.

I've never bought into this whole literalist interpretation of the Cars universe. It's not that there aren't any people, it's that neither the audience nor the characters can perceive them. It's comparable to the way that a lot of human behavior is the result of reflexive or instinctive reactions which are then…

I thought the Alan Parsons Project involved a huge laser…

Interesting! Though B-sides are in the eye of the B-holder.

Flashback to 1955…
"What the hell is this on the back of my 'Rock Around the Clock' record?"