I was not at UW for the OG run of prairie gold, but I did wind up with a football jersey from that era. It was...something else.

it’s a dyed-in-the-wool red state, and probably will always be.

And yet we have two Senators and an (at-large, Cheney) rep in the House, and DC has none.

Yo! I just moved to Lander - I moved down recently after a few months living in Star Valley...so Lander is like, a gleaming metropolis of my heart. It is the best.

Others have responded to your other points, but I just want to point out that I find it dismaying that you characterize an important conversation - the “we’re making a new family, what do we want to be called?” conversation - as “contention,” “dick measuring,” “argument,” and “ego.” Not everything has to be an effing…

Some people always have to be the vanguard in showing things are ok and the sky won’t fall when you do things a little differently, you know? My husband took my name. I have a massive family on both sides (think over 30 first cousins) and nobody had done anything remotely like this before. It went from “WTF” to “oh…

But when it actually comes time, it seems that people are just not willing to put up with the social friction.

I have a PhD and my husband took my name. I was hoping to get some “Dr. and Mr. Jeans” correspondence, but so far we’re still getting “Mr. and Mrs. Hisfirst Hislast” from those who care enough about etiquette to address things formally. It does amuse me that when we meet new people and are introduced as Dude and Blue…

Just because they come back doesn’t mean there won’t be serious consequences. I mean, you could levy this exact criticism at the comics whenever some major world altering shift happens. People die and they come back....it’s the literal circle of life for most of these characters anyway. Suspending your meta-knowledge…

Tony’s going to feel directly responsible, because he failed. Peter’s life is the stakes of him failing to stop Thanos. (Also half the universe, but Peter faded away in his arms while completely frightened, so...)

I am interested in other points you make, but I have to step in to REALLY disagree with this. That he’s physically attractive highlights the horror to me. The issue with the Commander in any iteration is not that he’s unsexy, it’s that he’s routinely raping Offred. Showing him as the show does in flashbacks - in a…

Nah, this is an undergraduate biology classroom. We’re talking about a lecture course that almost certainly cuts across a HUGE range of students. You’re as likely to have a student-athlete who wants to go to med school or a ranch kid majoring in wildlife biology in that setting, you’re not just talking about a…

studies have shown

I think that Criss has been amazing as Cunanan. That said, the moment from the series that has stuck with me the most is the when Trail comforts the young gay sailor and they have that instant moment of recognition - really all of that entire episode will be with me for a long time.

Timothy Olyphant’s portrayal of a loving husband just trying to make a marriage to a zombie work is 100% the best part of season 1.

I haven’t seen it either (because I live in a small town where only one movie plays at a time, so it has not yet arrived) but the critique isn’t that the character is racist - it’s that he’s a violent racist cop who brutalizes POC and then gets to turn into a good guy without the movie addressing his racism (again, is…

I believe Hardy should be appreciated in all things. But he’s very good - he plays a fighter pilot in the “Air” timeline.

Not for nothing, I thought a lot of the performances were really subtle and strong. Tom Hardy’s great in it...he’s really nailing the niche of “acting with half your face covered.”

Haha, I respect your opinion, but I think you might have misunderstood my point! I was actually giving Nolan credit - because what seemed in trailers to be a relatively standard - though epic - war story actually played in a much more complex and surprising way. The structure with the 3 timelines really worked for me.

I really liked Dunkirk, and I don’t think it was very clear until you were sitting inside the theater watching it play out how inventive and strange it was. That said, Get Out completely broke the mold and really deserves to be rewarded with a top nod. It was the movie that 2017 sorely, sorely needed.