It’s kind of baked into the original character. Barry in the comics is a pure representation of the 60s comic book ideal: He stands for Good, always wins, and never changes; it’s as if the universe warps around him to accommodate his simplicity and grant him victory. (Literally in the case of the universe being…

Ok, am I the only one who has shipped Felicity and Diggle since season 1? Every time they exchange dialogue is FIRE.

I don’t even like Original Al Pacino. One and a half seasons of Community Theater Al Pacino really tested my commitment to the show.

Also, Barry is dumb.

Todd Phillips v. Clint Eastwood; Joker v. Unforgiven. Both directors set out to do a revisionist deconstruction of a genre. The biggest difference between them is that Eastwood had an intimate knowledge and love of the genre but was still able to be objectively critical of it, whereas Phillips seems to be someone who…

All your points = yes

The reality is that a lot of people who have a great story to tell aren’t necessarily the best at telling that story. You’d be surprised how many bestselling authors are heavily rewritten by their editors and copyeditors. And I don’t just mean grammar issues.

Double spaces after periods are like rubbing two sticks together to start a fire. We’re not cavemen anymore! Single space, people.

All you have to be is successful enough to overrule your copyeditor (who should be an expert). Example: A bestselling author once included the phrase “divvy up to the bar” in a manuscript. I marked the correction “sidle up to the bar.” He overruled it in the next draft. I tried to explain to him that you “divvy up”…

When I was a kid in the 80s, being allowed to sit in the front was like a rite of passage. I know it seems small, but childhood is filled with those little things that signal that you’re growing up and maturing, those opportunities that allow you to rise to the occasion and prove that you’re ready. My point is that…

I’m all for child safety, but I have a hard time reconciling keeping a kid in the backseat until they’re 13 and then expecting them to be mature enough just three years later to drive that same car. I have no answer to this conundrum. Do we increase the driving age to 18? Do we rethink front seat safety to protect…

Nicholas Hammond as Blue Beetle

You want to keep sports fun for kids? Keep adults as far away as possible.

This is what his base doesn’t understand: Because he’s always talking about “enemies” and makes everything a personal attack, they think those of us who’ve wanted him out since before Day 1 do so because we don’t like him. Sure, I’ve never liked Donald since he was a series regular on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.…

Look, people on our level can’t understand the complexities of the world he inhabits. We are not very stable geniuses. At best I’m a semi-erratic smartass. An ant lacks the mental ability to comprehend why I will sit through the same Nationwide Insurance commercial four times in a row until the CW app gets back to the…

Just tell them “I used to be a consultant; now I want to work for a living.”

You feed a gremlin after midnight and all anyone cares about is the ensuing murder and mayhem. Nobody remembers that they used to cute and cuddly.

We are a sagging empire entering the downturn of our dynastic cycle. In our denial, we’ll cling to anything that makes us think we’re still The Best in the World. 

When I lived in NYC, I dated an actress who belonged to a Shakespeare company of all women. She was explaining an upcoming show to me one time and I was like,
“There seems to be a lot of excessive nudity. Like, scenes that don’t require it at all and you’re all getting naked. Who’s idea was that?”
“The director’s.”
“Wha…

You need a sweater, bro? You seem cold.