Not to mention a few things on this list are legitimately good. Like Showgirls, which is downright amazing. Even the cast was in on the joke, so I'm not sure how this writer could believe otherwise. Gina Gershon was aggressively pushing the Broadway contingent to turn it into a musical, which would be a match made in…

Your take is a very similar criticism to mine. It seems like they were trying so hard to make the show good as opposed to the folks in charge letting it be good because it was. It felt like the Ikea version of a manufactured plot line designed to be "artisinal" for awards show circuit purposes.

I guess the religious cult I grew up in (Catholicism) always dances around real questions, so I assumed they all did. Certainly not a fair assumption on my part, but we tend to believe that what we know is more of a universal experience, even when it's not.

Oh, I love the cobbler for the very same reason you do. So much easier. Really though, cakes are quite easy if you measure correctly and didn't overbeat the batter. My problem is I tend to overbeat and get a cake that looks like the Ngorongoro crater.

That was my thinking as well. It seems to be a stinging indictment of organized religion. Don't ask questions, don't be rational, and there are fictional creatures known as Abbies awaiting you if you choose to disobey.

What I wouldn't give for South Park to parody this episode.

I had a true cognitive dissonance moment where I refused to believe what I was seeing.

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The writing on the show makes me want to stick my fist through the wall. It is atrocious. Not by prestige-drama standards, but by more general tv standards. It makes the writers' room over at those Shonda shows look pretty smart. It's as though they researched a few choice quotes from Nietzsche, changed a word here…

Non sequitur, but did you watch True Detective? I'm sure you did, and I'm curious to know your thoughts. I'm marathoning it right now and I… HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE… IT….. !!!!! I could write a dissertation on everything that's wrong with this show and I'm dumbfounded as to how it received the critical praise that it did.…

Goddam that sounds good. If I hadn't already gorged myself upon 3000 calories of cake and frosting tonight, I'd totally make that tomorrow. But alas, not a good idea before beach season!

Are you related to Space Jewess? I loved her and now she is gone. If you see her, tell her she is missed. She had some great comments last year on this show.

Cake pops are the ultimate salvage for a messy looking cake. God bless the baker who invented those.
If you ever want a REALLY good cream cheese frosting, try adding half a stick of browned butter and a touch of cinnamon. It's a process as you have to brown the butter then let it re-set before whipping it with…

I made a cake last night that looked like hell, so I made the executive decision to turn it into cake balls. I mashed up the cake, whipped up a cream cheese frosting to goop the cake shrapnel together, turned them into balls, and then dipped them into dark chocolate I melted in a double boiler.

Having watched both, I could not agree more.
The analogy I would make to explain the phenomenon is a Harvard student doing ok in a class and getting a B+ relative to other Harvard students is almost always going to be > than the output from someone from Unknown College XYZ getting an A in his/her class in the same…

As I noted, this is not an area of expertise for me, so I consulted my friend whose expertise is this precisely: she's a dermatologist. I asked her for her expert opinion, and it turns out we're both correct. In her estimation, she did previously do botox around her mouth, which is why the bottom half of her half face…

God, I know. When India and Kimberly were the bottom two, you could have knocked me over with a feather. And then when India and Koryn were the bottom two the following week after both girls gave showstopping performances, I was ready to start a riot. I'm all for good singers of any genre or any race, but it just so…

There was an article I read over the past season as to where the iTunes sales were coming from, and they were predominantly Midwestern and southern (you're right, the autocorrect only capitalizes Midwestern!). It stands to reason that those downloading iTunes songs are the same ones voting, but that is an assumption…

Historically speaking, you want to win. It's rare enough for a winner to do well, but even rarer for a non-winner to do so.

I live in a deep blue state. My vote in those elections never counts.