You're thinking of Gene Shalit.

I was surprised to see the guy from that show up in John Wick. It took me a few seconds to realize why I recognized him.

He was only at the train station because the restaurant car served a great lasagna.

Ha! This is great.

I don't know why that would be flagged, because, yes, it gets used all the time here in a mocking fashion. Might as well go after "Dental plan/Lisa needs braces" at the same time.

Great! I clicked on the Dwayne Johnson story when that happened before and left as soon as I read a few comments and realized what was going on. Because they are going to respond positively to logical and well-reasoned arguments. I'm sure our best commenters did what they could, though.

Did we get invaded again? I was checking up on my notifications this morning and had a couple of (ordinary, polite) replies from the story about the guy buying a ticket to the women-only screening of Wonder Woman, but I can't reply back to thank them because it's been closed. I see there are a couple thousand comments…

Sounds adorably terrifying!

Was it a tie? I'll concede to you.

You're the greatest in the universe, Mr. Greene.

Is your dog an asthma-hound Chihuahua? If so, that's typical of the breed.

My dad once told me that when he was a boy, some neighbors had captured a crow and taught it to speak by splitting its tongue. Turns out crows can talk, but the whole thing with having to split their tongues is just a cruel myth. Who the hell decided that was something that needed to be done?

If you're out there, apartment building woman, I apologize for having been obtuse.

Yeah. I was probably one floor below her, so it wasn't like I was two steps behind. But it was a relatively open staircase and I'm sure she must have noticed me, and I was just thinking about getting to my apartment. I could have turned down the hall on a lower floor and taken a different staircase. I usually did go…

I'm a pretty tall and large guy and used to have an apartment on the top floor of an apartment building. I was going home one day and walking up the stairs behind a woman. It was four floors with no elevator. So I was following and following her all the way to the top where she turned the same direction down the hall…

My recommendation this week comes from none other than @Burl. I had the idea earlier this week that a nutria is the animal nesting on Trump's head, and Burl replied to inform me of a film called Terror in the Swamp, which was originally known as Nutriaman: The Copasaw Creature. It's about a mutant nutria that escapes…

I once thought about becoming a climatology professor simply so I could ask the students "Does anybody really know what climate is?" on the first day of class. Then I'd have to spend the next several minutes explaining the joke, making it that much funnier.

I felt the same way about the recent Ghostbusters. Passable, but unnecessary. It covered the same plot points as the original, but with fancier special effects. I didn't love it, and I didn't hate it. I'll watch the original anytime, though.

ATM machine.

Even worse.