Nothing works. Nothing is worth it. That’s why the book is so great. Plus, there’s a cat.

As a former dishwasher then busboy at restaurants for nearly three years, I appreciate this piece and the film (even without seeing it yet) a lot. I was trying to tell my daughter about this work and how hard it can be and I could practically hear her eyes rolling through the phone. Sigh. Its hot, tough work and the…

Pretty sure Dinesh D’Souza has made that movie a couple times already.

We went to his show and he called my wife a moose.

Why, oh why, was this not just an anthology film?

...a life that you stop giving any shits about as soon as it's here.

Provide even the smidgen of a valid scientific argument for considering a bundle of proto-human tissues, just weeks from conception, as “life”. Then some us might start “considering” it.

If anti-abortion activists were as earnest as they claim, they’d support better sex education and more availability of free contraceptives (their hatred of Planned Parenthood is ironic when one of the goals when PP was founded was to decrease the amount of abortions that were being performed in the country).

Frankly I don’t like that they replaced Jim Varney with a sound a like.

Anne’s book about her father is so good, I highly recommend it. He was a man who felt deeply and cared deeply about the world around him.

I don’t know what he thought about his legacy, but he was pretty self-critical of his work. I think he talked in later years about TZ being a mixed bag, overall. Some good episodes, some stinkers.

Many of his themes were universal and apply to human behavior over centuries, so it’s no surprise they’d still hold up 60 years later.

Fucking Frozen.

This show closed three years ago, and I only saw it once, but yes, it was pretty good for a theme park stage show. Genie, flying carpets, the whole bit. It got replaced by a Frozen stage show because everything good in the world must be replaced by something Frozen-themed, but while it lasted, it was pretty great.

Well, at the very least I’m glad to see Jay Leno’s writing team found work after he left Late Night.

It was kinda crap honestly.

I hope they find a way to incorporate the Mothra fairies into this movie because... you just have to.

Counterpoint: The Japanese.

I remember liked Never Let Me Go alright but I don’t remember anything about it so I can’t really endorse it. Agreed on the Carell/Knightley pairing. The movie wasn’t bad, but that casting still squicks me out.