Seconded. They’re both egotistical and willing to hurt people to accumulate wealth, but one has to be handled delicately because he needs constant reassurance that he’s the best that ever was, and the other is self-reliant enough to find joy in being a smug unlikeable jackass.

I’m friends with a NINTH Pixar employee who’s always talking about how great Donald Trump is, and how mustaches are awesome, and how much fun it was to film The Empire Strikes Back, and how total strangers still ask him “Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?”

Neither one of my choices were particularly big hits, but they're special to me:
"Holiday" by The Other Ones, the first pop vinyl single I ever bought: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
"This is Ponderous" by 2nu, which was one of my first cassette singles and a minor sensation in my little corner of college in 1991: https://…

“Now we’re under the Gunn!”, Woody Harrelson would say, dozens of times a day, every day, to no one in particular.

"The BBC wishes to deny rumors that it is going into liquidation. Mrs. Kelly, who owns the flat where they live, has said that they can stay on till the end of the month, and we've just heard that Huw Wheldon's watch has been accepted by the London Electricity Board and transmissions for this evening can be continued…

“You ask me how I came to be here? My tale is long, and difficult, and best shared another time. But a small part of it is…meesa clumsy.”

You're thinking of Joe Rogan. Seth Roggin is the sports anchor who was maybe most famous in the '90s for his home video show, Roggin's Heroes.

It sounds like you’re arguing that the Space Nazis of the original Star Wars trilogy were better villains than the Space Robots of the prequel trilogy!

Quick story: When I was a kid in the mid-1980s, I spent a lot of time after school at the business where my dad worked. It had a Coke machine, and the aluminum cans just wound up in the garbage. I wanted to collect the cans and get a little money for recycling them, but my dad rejected the idea, saying the money we’d…

Have you ever seen the old Day By Day episode where Ross (Christopher Daniel Barnes) dreams himself into an old Brady Bunch? It was Robert Reed's big shot at self-parody, and he was glorious: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I'm suddenly curious if any company out there pays the subminimum wage to teenagers; I didn't realize that was still a thing, and I sure didn't realize it was stuck at the two-decades-old minimum wage of $4.25 an hour. (As memory serves, the only way George H.W. Bush could/would raise the minimum wage from $3.35 to…

I dreamed a couple of weeks ago that CNN was coming to my parents' house to do a story on our dog because she had just turned 40. Nothing starts a day quite so badly as having to remind yourself that the dog died in '88.

I'll take any excuse to link to a Mark Evanier column: This almost-22-year-old tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. takes a huge detour into Bill Cosby's standup, and maybe helps explain why people found him so appealing (and, reading between the lines with what we know now, how skillful he can be at manipulation and…

It suddenly occurs to me that if Episodes I-VI really WERE written in that order, it would have made thematic sense to have brought the Sand People back in Return of the Jedi, completing another one of those circles that George Lucas loves so much. They’d have gone from inadvertently helpful agents of chaos, to a…

She was the high point for me too. My single favorite moment in Dawn of Justice is her smiling during the big Doomsday fight at the end; it's her "Bring it" moment.

There was a girl at my screening who looked to be about 9 or 10 who was practically pleading to see it again, and her mom was trying to figure out how they'd have the time to get to the theater for it; the girl also wants to see Spider-Man Homecoming, and then the mom said "and I know your father wants me to go with…

OK, since I talked smack about my good friend in a shameless attempt to score upvotes, I may as well keep going:

TRUE, BORING, MILDLY RELATED STORY: I have a friend who owns a 3-D television, and he still holds out hope that the technology will rebound in popularity and that he’ll be considered a trend-setter (which is a big part of the reason he bought the set in the first place). If you talk to him for a couple of minutes, he…

For years, I'd assumed that Luke was born on Dagobah, because of his "Still, there's something familiar about this place" remark in Empire. (Apparently it was just Luke sensing Yoda's presence nearby, because Yoda had been watching him for a long time on Tatooine.)

Having never seen this episode, I choose to hear this list as an elaborately long Power Rangers morphin' sequence.