The Giants really are dead this season.

It's not slashfic when it's straight. We had this whole conversation when Busy Philips was on Undeclared.

You say that as if genocide were not the impetus for creating such an order. Or that the Turkish state that emerged in the aftermath wasn't directly opposed to it.

Who will Yaphet Kotto play?

It's a real catch-22. The only people who would choose to be known to the world as horrible human beings would have to actually be horrible human beings.

Counterpoint: the post-WWI order he had spent years carefully constructing pretty much fell apart as soon as the stroke, so you might feel a little sympathy if you're, say, part of a minority population in the Ottoman Empire.

Fun fact: in California, the President Pro Tem is not he most senior member of the senate, and in fact has become more and more powerful to the point that he's basically the Prime Minister.

Women are increasingly comfortable coming on to me without provocation, and I still have low enough self-esteem to suspect foul play. My roommates are angry at me for failing to close.

"Live truthfully and skate through life! Halliburton Teen!"

Kenneth Branagh as Jafar: "Eau-livia, whah are yew sew cruel to meee?"

Israelis are always down, but Disney definitely doesn't want that shit-storm.

בעברית, אומרים ׳זה סינית בשבילי׳, לא יונית.

I haven't seen it. Does she make a soliloquy about the Apollo program that occasionally lapses into her native Latin?

If it's any consolation, the John Cameron Mitchell backlash is in full swing thanks to How to Talk to Girls At Parties. Spoiler: you don't have to, because they will come up to you, because good Lord it's a Manic Motherfucking Pixie Dream Girl story in goddamn 2017.

I watched Predator recently. The long-ish Act 3 is great, but the entire buildup is just kinda awkward and inert.

It's past midnight.

Baby Driver (2017): Fun! Best movie I've seen from 2017. Albeit the only other two were Life and It Comes At Night, but nonetheless. My roommates were annoyed that I wasn't bothered by the lightness of the characterization, and have since deemed me the "jock" of the house (I'm the only actor, only non-drug user, and…

To make way for slavery!

It's downright impressive that Pierce came out of his four-year drunken blackout to fire him.

No, he obtained chemical weapons from a rogue ex-Soviet general (based on his name, Gredenko, he was either Ukrainian or Belarusian) because having Russia be the enemy outright was no longer credible (though apparently anything at all involving Sherry Palmer was).