I remember hearing the radio play a new single from the Red Hot Chili Peppers for a short time during the summer. I liked it but not so much that I was motivated to seek out more (yeah, yeah, -25 points; in my defense any new music is an oasis in the desert of Top 40 radio, which I listened to a lot of while doing…

I was confused why Michael gave Eleanor an average score to aim for. I thought the whole system was based ONLY on points, so shouldn't there just be a specific number you need to reach to get into the Good Place, and then everyone else goes into the Bad Place? And Tahani's score (997,485) was less than the average…

I don't see their interaction as a "decay in socialization," though I agree a face to face discussion is usually better than a Twitter one. Hiding behind pleasantries when someone slights you is not some new phenomenon at all. Think about how many people bit their tongues in the past (and now too, despite the claims…

I think I watched a short science video narrated by him in school, or maybe not because he appeared on camera in a talking head interview. He seemed cool, but I mostly just remember being unsettled by the way he or the narrator pronounced "drought" as "droat." *shudders*

One of my favorite little background jokes in BoJack Horseman was when Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter were making up Oscar nominations, their Best Director list was all female: Nicole Holofcener, Ava DuVernay, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Mary Harron, and Ana Lily Amirpour. I don't think they all directed feature films in 2016,…

My wishlist:
- Freddy's musical zipper
- All the outfits, really
- Whatever creepy scrapbook Glen probably kept Betty's lock of hair in
- The afghan used to cover Mrs. Blankenship
- Ginsberg's nipple
- Bert/Peggy's print of The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife
- SURPRISE! THERE'S AN AIRPLANE HERE TO SEE YOU!

Hey I just caught up on season 3 recently! Whooo latecomers (I'm working on Stranger Things now)! But yeah, it's amazing how it's an animated series featuring anthropomorphized animals in Hollywoo, and yet it feels so much more real than most other shows, all while being crazy funny and original. I love that the show…

When I went to watch Hidden Figures, they showed the trailer for this movie and bunch of other terrible looking kids movies (the Smurfs, the one where Alec Baldwin is a cartoon baby, etc), and also Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk" so I don't think anyone is thinking too hard about trailer strategy.

Really? It felt about the same to me, but I spent half the year with minimal access to the Internet so I guess I was just able to avoid those thinkpieces, thankfully. I'd be careful about calling it a pinnacle though, I'm sure the Internet has the potential for a lot more insufferable thinkpieces!

I feel like Beyoncé was a huge presence and having everything she did put on a pedestal waaaaaaay before 2016. "Beyoncé" the album came out in 2013, so at least since then.

Blue, Ivy-lly wanted you to stay

WHY DOES THIS HEADLINE NOT SAY "No one knows a Knowles like a Knowles"?!!!

YAY AREAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Love the E-40 shoutout, but I think his best line is, "There she go slidin down the pole/One dollar bills coming out her asshole"

Awww, that's pretty sad, good on Yuli for knowing so much about robot safety. Sounds like that robot met a real-life Zeke. I have to admit though that seeing the headline "Hitchhiking Robot Is Decapitated And Left In A Ditch After Just Two Weeks" made me guffaw at how brutal it was.

HAVE YOU SEEN WALL-E?
No…
EXCELLENT, BECAUSE THIS IS NOT THAT STORY AT ALL.

It's the good place, the temperature should be perfect!

Embarrassing confession: I confuse Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer all the time. I know they look nothing alike, besides being black women so I'm probably kind of racist, but I think it's also because in my head I see both their first names as "music-related," and their last names as "common American last name that…

She is one of my favorite singers, and amazing in concert too—imagine that liveliness unrestrained in a performance setting. One time she was doing a song on a late night show (Letterman I think?) and she ran off from the stage area, danced on top of the desk, hopped off, and ran back to the stage to dance some more.…

Hidden Figures didn't get a great grade here, but the criticism boiled down to just "it's predictable," so the presence of Janelle Monae and subject matter won out. I feel like it could've gone deeper, but it was still interesting and I'm glad the story is getting told. And Mahershala Ali is great, but the romance…

MAYBE I SHOULD MAKE A RUN FOR IT, BUT HOW WILL I GET OUT THE FRONT DOOR? I WILL NEED SOMEONE TO OPEN THE FRONT DOOR.