Not exactly a Broadway musical, but have Cirque du Soleil do Portal, with acrobatic twins recreating the portal effect.

The only way I made it through Atlas Shrugged was by realizing it made literally no difference from a reading comprehension level to read only the first sentence of each paragraph and to skip the rest.

I take this moment to stop and be grateful that a major network supports a prime time cartoon with the voice talents of Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, and H. Jon Benjamin in starring roles. Amen.

Not especially, but sure why not? Hit me, lo. (lo is my nickname for you because it's easier to type than loo. That's both when and by whom you started being called lo.)

(or … instead … you could just walk away … you could put a stop to all of this … just walk away …)

Not sure you're actually having this discussion with me. So, however you're defining "gentrified areas", what I described (and what we did) was moving out of an area you could say is BEING gentrified (CapHill) and too a more suburban-ish neighborhood that is—generally speaking—more of a homogeneous social class. I…

That's not my point at all. In fact, I specifically call out that sort of thinking that "the solution is to move away from poverty." When we moved, we looked first to our then-current neighborhood, so it had absolutely nothing to do with your glib "out of sight, out of mind" summation.

Just for a different take, I've lived in a few places with open street beggers, and used to have a habit of giving whatever loose change or small bills I had in my pocket. (Anecdote—one guy asked me for a buck to take a bus, so I handed him a an unlimited Metro pass that he could use to take the bus for a week. He…

A lot of things can be interesting and the word can mean a lot of different things. One kind of interesting does get lost when neighborhoods like Capitol Hill "clean up" (or whatever). Having just lived there and now living in what's considered a more suburban-ish part of Seattle, I miss the more mixed community of…

My take on New Order lyrics is that they're top of the line when they're explicitly about coping with loss ("The sign that leads the way / The path we can not take / You've caught me at a bad time / So why don't you piss off" gets me every time) and best ignored otherwise ("I would like a place I could call my own /…

I'll just take this opportunity to say that, whatever this new album contributes to the New Order discography, if you haven't picked up The Other Two already … you might as well start there first:

Did you really just rag on Electronic? They get a pass that carries them through the mediocre second album (and the forgettable third album) for that classic debut. "Getting Away With It" and "Get the Message" are classics up there with the best of New Order, and even if "Disappointed" sounds basically like a…

Disney to Geore Lucas: "Hey, we were unpacking that box of stuff we bought from you, and it looks like there's some kind of money printing machine in here…"

Fun fact, Grenier played Casa-Bro-Va in 2011's True Bromance.

I'm pretty sure I've called someone "Lobster-mooch" out of reflex, since I hear that word a lot in my head. I can only imagine the confusion it caused when said out of context.

Huh … apparently the original tune is basically just a take-down of the poor and uneducated (and you wouldn't have to use too much imagination to assume it's also quite racist): https://play.google.com/mus…

As terrible as that was as a show, there's an almost sad whimsy to its opening theme that always gets me. "Would you like to be … better off than you are, or would you rather go to Earth?"

Sometimes I get the sense that MacFarlane would make for a great, funny guy in person, with a lot of knowing, self-aware jokes kind of based on "wouldn't it be awful if I said ____? Wouldn't I have to be a horrible person?"

You know what? Fuck this.

And, tangentially, Seinfeld.