Do what, Dutch oven Ethel Merman?

I find that when someone asks if I'm sad or pissed off, it immediately pisses me off, regardless of how good a mood I was in previously.

Ripper Street. It's what the cast of Game of Thrones seem to do on their down time.

They will still likely have new specials on the BBC. The second series of James May's Cars of the People just finished airing last week, and Clarkson has appeared on HIGNFY and QI since being let go, so the BBC hasn't banned him.

What about Tom Bombadil?

I think every desktop background I've used for the last five years or so came from Shorpy. That's a great website.

Great point, the South could have won and would have still been wrong.

It might be worth noting that Android doesn't require any app to get music onto your phone. Just make a music folder and copy the mp3s directly to your phone, no iTunes necessary.

I'd cut Garfield some slack for hating this particular Monday.

Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. I bought the Criterion Blu-ray months ago and never got around to watching it. Now seems like the appropriate time.

I could see Tilda Swinton as Bowie, but my favorite is Alice Lowe: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Between 40 and 90 pretty well describes it. It's that way mostly because all of the large cities—Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver—are sandwiched between the ocean and the Cascades. The ocean has a huge dampening effect.

Unless you're comparing it to Florida, it's not cold here. It rarely ever drops below freezing, and it'll snow maybe once or twice a year, and usually melts off in a few hours. When it does, the locals have no idea what to do. Portland basically shuts down altogether when it snows. I leave my windows open all year…

I know that not all blue-collar towns are not that bad. My hometown was particularly bad, probably because most of the industry was dying off and there wasn't much hope left for a lot of the people, so they looked for people to blame. Now I'm in Seattle, which is a polar opposite to where I was raised. It's not…

That type of thinking needs a support system, a world where they are never exposed to anyone who might think or live differently from them. I come from a very industrial town where there's a lot of animosity towards people who don't do "real work" i.e. manual labor. I think the main reason I'm fairly liberal is…

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Those places do exist, where else would Trump's supporters be?

Pedro Almodovar would agree with that, if Volver is any indication.

"Obamacare" vs. "Affordable Care Act"

For me, a voice is just another instrument. So whether the Sigur Ros song I'm listening to is in Icelandic, English, or just made-up words, I don't really care. I rarely notice lyrics unless they are really good or really bad, but even most of the best lyricists would make bad poets. Even if the lyrics are truly…