I feel like it’s a false dichotomy to say that this movie is either ‘nice guy Tom gets jerked around by manipulative shrew’ vs. ‘emotionally stunted, selfish, entitled NiceGuy(TM) Tom totally invalidates the wishes of his female counterpart’ with no middle ground.

Doesn’t Tom’s sister say pretty much this?  I can’t remember the exact line, but something like, “You think just because she likes all the same weird stuff as you that she’s perfect.”

If you put the movie into chronological order, there is absolutely nothing interesting about it. And a little tip: if someone says they don’t want to put a “label” on what they have with you, it means they want an easy out. I don’t see how anyone could possibly miss that.

i still to this day can’t figure out if this movie is a deconstruction of manic pixie dream girl tropes, or a celebration. i feel like summer is presented as a list of tastes, with no inner life like the typical mdpg, the smiths scene is the most obvious offender, but there is an argument that tom isn’t interested in…

What this research actually seems to be saying is that if you leave your child with a crappy babysitter who restrains them in a car seat for hours instead of actually caring for them, then there’s an increased risk they might die. Letting your baby sleep in their car seat next to you in a restaurant is not going to…

This article’s summary of this research is so bad that it borders on willful falsehood. Here’s the actual result from the study:

I fucking love Jeter’s self-inflicted damage to his reputation. I hope he sticks around for like 30 years and keeps digging himself deeper and deeper, so that when he dies someday he’s remembered more as the shitty owner of the Marlins than as a Yankees shortstop.

I know it’s jeets and he’s a legend but nobody’s just going to gift it to him. Success isn’t wrapped up neatly in a basket. 

Vampire Weekend’s discography is the official soundtrack of gentrification  

The problem with trying to improve the dealer experience is that at the end of the day it is still a dealer experience. The weakest link in the customer service experience is the bit that directly interacts with the customer. If Ford can somehow change that...

She will be forever banned from the CFL and participation in the 36.5 Metre Dash.

This debate is so well settled, I was genuinely happy to see the “AD’s and coaches should have to be unpaid students too” line. It’s new and it’s funny and I actually would love to hear the argument against coaches not getting paid more than a 4-figure stipend to oversee an “after-school program.”

Maybe it didn’t happen in your dimension.

Something Office Space and King of the Hill have that none of their successors share is a real sense of suburban America. As good as The Office (USA) or anything else cited in the article are, they still feel like shows made in California and written by people who went to ivy league schools. Judge really knows how to…

Every high school boy in the early 2000s was legally required to own Office Space, Fight Club, and the Matrix on DVD.

I have discussed this with Neil a few times already, and I have some strong opinions as a former Rays season ticketholder, former St. Pete resident, and current Tampa resident.

a good update if you haven’t already seen:

Thanks for publishing these emails. As they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant, and it also prevent Ricketts.

Go ahead, move them out to Rosemont, Schaumburg, or Naperville, they’ll still tell everyone that they’re from Chicago