I made a disappointing pot roast.

Personal Shopper. Which was way scarier than I was expecting.

Rockville is the new DC-area Chinatown. A fact I read about years ago (apparently the development of the Verizon Center gutted Chinatown), and only remembered when my office relocated here a few months ago and I noticed a LOT of restaurants and businesses with duel-language signage.

I ate there a few times. The meatballs are delicious, but it's hard to get excited about it otherwise.

*consults block list*

It sounds like he was defending himself. He and his girlfriend retreated from the fight, and the roommate broke into the room to continue it; that's a pretty strong indication that it wasn't pre-meditated and that they had genuine reason to fear for their physical safety. But unless his roommate was actually trying…

And 76 trombones!

It works if you're consistent (and honest) about rating things you watch. The more you watch and rate, the better their predictions are.

I was gonna bitch about this, because (since I rate everything I ever watch via Netflix and I've been doing so for over ten years) their star ratings are astonishingly accurate for me. To the point where if I'm wobbling about whether to see a new release, and reviews haven't helped me decide, I'll go look at…

We have since heard your complaints about the new system, many of them
rational and justified, some of them even politely expressed.

Well said.

The Stranger Third Man.

Not bad. I saw a couple of flicks, spent quality time with my cat, read a large chunk of Carla Speed McNeil's Finder.

The 1960 Village of the Damned, which is totally the proto-X-men. Three years before the book debuted, and it has mutant telepaths who foresee a conflict between themselves and humanity and are trying to protect themselves from it. No chance Lee or Kirby didn't see this movie and get a bright idea.

Personally, I would say so. But there was a kid who couldn't have been older than that one seat over from me and he seemed fine.

oooooh I'm going to eat her ears

I couldn't find 'em at all until it occurred to me to turn off Adblock.

The kind of people who acquire "dangerous" dog breeds like pit bulls and dobermans with the intention of using them to menace other people are exactly the kind of asshole bullies who abuse their dogs, socialize them poorly, and deliberately teach them to be aggressive towards people.

It's a goddamn door-slamming French farce.

I love the egg episode. I will never stop finding it funny that Xander hard-boiled his baby. Or the little tentacle monster hanging out in Cordelia's teddy bear backpack.