True story—my parents rented Raiders when I was 6 and we all watched it together. The melting Nazis so traumatized me that I refused to watch the movie again until college.

The same. Dallas is also going to be near 70, and we haven't had any snow since a surprise early trace in November that didn't stick.

I think a lot of moderate/establishment types have decided to bide their time for now. Indeed, while they would love to win in 2016, I think a lot of them would be willing to take a mulligan next year to (a) allow a lot of the old white guys who are weighing down the party to die off and (b) to shock the ones that…

About the only way that happens is if Ted Cruz decides to eat a baby on live TV before the 2018 election. And even then, I'd expect it to be close.

My sleep pattern has become throughily fucked up. No matter what time I go to bed, I'll inevidibly wake up halfway through the night, and won't be able to get back to sleep for at least an hour. I've never really required a lot of sleep (I'm usually good to go on 5 to 6 hours), but I fear that this is beginning to…

Survived my birthday over the weekend. I still am annoyed about being the age I am without having really accomplished anything in life, but I've had some bursts of creativity lately, so maybe, just maybe, I'll actually finish one of the numerous projects that I've started

I remember the instructions for the game were so confusing that we all just gave up and watched the video. I thought it was fun at the time. I watched it on YouTube a couple years ago and wondered just what bottom-barrel community theater they had recruited the cast from.

My birthday was Saturday (no, I'm not telling you how old I am) so I went out to dinner with friends, who "helpfully" informed the restaurant staff. Have I mentioned I hate it when all the waiters stand around and sing to me while I have to wear a wacky hat? At least I got a free sopapilla out of it.

I need to dig out my big series box set and do it. It's been far too long since I visited the Bartlett White House.

Did any gay porns from the 70s get anywhere near the cultural clout that Deep Throat or Debbie Does Dallas got? That said, if he can find that notorious gay Jesus porn movie, he should definitely do that one.

Hepped up on goofballs.

By itself, the gay wedding planner camping it up could easily be a joke on stupid straight people who buy into stereotypes, so depending on the context, the writing, and the performance, it could easily be non-offensive. In this film, however, with what sounds like wall-to-wall homophobia, the joke could easily be at…

Back in the spring and summer of 2001, I ended up seeing pretty much every episode in syndication (the place I was working had a TV that only picked up two channels, and the station showing Cosby reruns was one of them, and the job was so boring that the TV helped me stay sane). The first season was pretty funny, as…

I really think they should do an Inventory of Meryl Streep performances not nominated for an Oscar.

Given that the Academy is the Academy, the fact he was nominated twice for films as decidedly non-mainstream as Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive is pretty insane. Had he actually won one, I think the world would have flown off its axis.

I know nothing about Oscar screeners, but I'd think that a mid-November completion date would be plenty of time for a mid-December screener date.

Meanwhile, former sitcom stars in barely released movies that get awful reviews come thisclose to getting nominated for Best Actress.

I kinda agree. I like Carrell a lot, and thought he deserved to be nominated over Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine lo those many years ago, but I thought he was somewhat too mannered in his performance. It's a difficult role to play, for sure, but I too thought he was only good, not great.

Thanks Obama!

The optimist in me would hope that a theoretical Perry nomination would lead him to doing better work in his own movies. The realist in me knows that we'd probably just get "Academy Award Nominee Tyler Perry Presents An Academy Award Nominee Tyler Perry Film, Academy Award Nominee Tyler Perry in Academy Award Nominee…