Have you ever read her Gregor the Underlander series? It’s just as bleak and brutal as The Hunger Games, only it’s aimed at *middle-schoolers*. She does not pull her punches even a little bit. (Really good though, and I do recommend them if you enjoy her writing!)

The Games do feature in this book. It’s just a much earlier and less evolved iteration of them. Still pretty brutal!

More than just fan service is a good way to put it. I was totally expecting, say, to get the full story alluded to by Finnick in Mockingjay, the one involving poison, but the novel avoided going that route. You could probably read it with no prior knowledge of the characters and find it a complete and self-contained…

Gosh, what timing—happens to be the exact episode I’m in the middle of watching! (I mostly only watch TV while I’m eating, so I ended up turning it off partway through last night because this episode is longer than normal.) I did not know Cassavetes and Falk were such good friends, so when I pick it back up again,…

Last month, I eating lunch, blew my nose, and snot out a tiny ball of wilted spinach. The month before THAT, I was eating a Hot Pocket and sneezed, and out came a spray low-fat cheese sauce.

Did you...watch the entire video? Hanks ripping on Sony was a several-minutes-long joke that becomes super clear when you get past a few minutes.

There is one great thing about the From Hell movie: according to Eddie Campbell, the project was in limbo for so long that he was able to use the dough from the option extensions to buy a house.

I bet you would, too.

Welsh Rabbit is a variant term for Welsh Rarebit. Same dish, slightly different pronunciation.

I made the same mistake!

This made me laugh, because I’m hardly a dedicated Ralph Bakshi fan, but John Huston (who’s hardly obscure) is *the* definitive Gandalf to me, thanks to having watched that movie many times in childhood (and a few as an adult—it holds up really well!)

Shut it down, folks, you’re not going to be able to top this one.

Jordo, are you SERIOUSLY taking issue with a black woman describing her own hair as kinky?

You hope people hurt and humiliate Lupita Ngong’o for asking for respect, <I>but no disrespect</I>.

He sexually propositioned his subordinate. That is Sexual Harassment 101.

Aziz Ansari, a famous comedian, accepts a comedy award while making a standard comedy joke about how silly it is to accept a comedy award. The audience laughs, because the joke is funny, and recipients making fun of all the pretentiousness is the norm.

Aaaaaaand I’m stuck in the greys, so obviously I did not succeed in claiming my account.

Well, that did not go according to the directions.