Given the timing and what we know about Terry, I figured the stress eating was mostly triggered by the situation at work - he's been figuratively emasculated by an jerkwad idiot, but his professional and personal tendencies push him to give said jerkwad a level of respect and support that's completely unearned — on…

I don't know if I care about this movie or not.

But I have an opinion - I don't like a lot of country music. Not saying a lot of country music is bad, it's just not to my taste as a genre.

I don't have Starz, so I will have to wait to see this, but …

Your blood?

Lies from the pit of Hell!

I had fries from there earlier this week.

Stratford or get out.

I am still highly amused by Cookie in a gorilla suit, so Mr. Alston and I disagree from jump.

Actually, I don't think we've seen the posse since the hostile takeover bid went sideways. I think those dudes stuck with Empire.

You know, I entertained the brief thought that the hole in the tree was Rhonda's Lady Macbeth moment and she was cracking under the strain.

I'm not a huge horror movie fan, but as someone who adored anthology TV like Darkroom, TZ, Tales from the Darkside, etc. - this may be in my wheelhouse. May be worth watching via iTunes.

Sympathies …

Congratulations, Missy!

When I lived in the area, they had an archivist position open - everyone in my library & archival studies program salivated. Same thing when Skywalker Ranch had an open archival position.

Shanks. I've seen Shanks. It starts off as a pastiche of Lili (the Leslie Caron/Mel Ferrar movie) and goes gonzo-weird-creepy-rapey-wrong in SO. MANY. WAYS.

*sigh*

Not true.

Oh, I took that line as 'aspirational puffery' or someone brown-nosing the rich young heiress all the way up to her larynx.

The "Jane Austen" line might be lampshading - Austen's novel Northanger Abbey mocks gothic horror conventions and the idea of taking their view of human nature seriously.