I picture screenplay profs in the mid-90s as similar to Ms. Crabapple's reaction to yo-yos in "Bart the Lover"… sounds like I'm right.

Somewhat somewhat related: I covered the trial of a male teacher who ended up going to prison for sleeping with female students. He too was the cool teacher, and would even go to the students' parties, with instructions to them that he was not to be photographed. He actually mostly confined his behavior to girls that…

So many people are having to readjust what they thought was possible. E.g., I remember during the George W. Bush years the AV Club did an interview with Berke Breathed (creator of "Bloom County" comic strip, which was very political). He said something to the effect of "George W. Bush has effectively cut off…

No shit.

The whole Amityville Horror thing fucked me up good. I was about 8 when I saw it, and also owned the book. This was before the debunking, and it was all presented as a true story. I'd ask my parents and older brother if it was true, and they'd just sort of casually confirm that, yes, it was.

So that's why the pig demon kept insisting he was a legitimate businessman.

Trump campaign to Neil: Don't go away mad, just go away.

Best thing Michael Bay ever did.

I always thought it was ironic when I would hear a right-winger on talk radio decrying "safe spaces"… Talk radio is one fucking giant safe space for right-wingers!

Right now I'd like to be served by Lloyd. His quiet creepy glare would be the perfect compliment to my unhinged ranting about the election.

I've heard among those horrified by this election that now we need to stop finger-pointing and come together and present a unified front, etc etc.

"The Crow" was a product of its time. I look at it now and think, 'Is this an objectively good movie?' The answer is, not quite. However, it was really exciting for its time. Although the likes of "Pulp Fiction" and "Clerks" would appear later that year, "The Crow" seemed like it was at least attempting to break the…

"It seems very show-business that the bad guy ended up winning…"

Ha, ha, the people in 1990 didn't even know that they were old!

And there's the rub: no one can really speak for Donald Trump. I saw the same article, and my first thought was How does Paul Ryan know?. I don't think he knows what Trump will do anymore than those on this thread.

I would point out that the brakes have yet to be hit with Trump's ascension to power. For the last year-and-a-half we all kept thinking something's surely going to stop him from going any further.

I think most all the "investigations" into HRC are bullshit, but the people who are now going to assume power don't. That's why I heard someone make a great point: What do you think a fly on the wall would've heard election night in the Clinton room? Were they actually contemplating a contingency plan to move to a…

Well, blocking Fivethirtyeight certainly makes sense. On election night 2012 Nate Silver looked like a wizard, now he looks like a snake-oil salesman.

That was the thing about those of us who learned the election results while drinking: amongst everything else going through my head, I suddenly thought, Holy shit, you're still going to have to process this sober!

Finally started The Man in the High Castle (two episodes in). I'm a fan of PKD, and was intending to watch Man for a while, but needless to say it took on a strangely appropriate significance in light of what happened this week. Yes, people are going to imbue many pop culture items with retroactive significance in…