yeah, this is gross.

I'd also just point out that typically when really painful procedures are being performed on children to save their lives, it's done by doctors, not parents. Your parents are the ones who comfort and protect you and explain to you why all this is going on. I imagine that even with the best parenting skills (which I…

I saw Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones in an empty theater on, I don't know, a Tuesday morning when I got caught in a thunderstorm and decided to wait it out at the movies. I really had to go to the bathroom, but I didn't want to miss the duel between Yoda and Christopher Lee, which my brother had told me was worth…

Sturgill Simpson's Metamodern Sounds in Country Music -

"Complaining about a bunch of "bros" living it up is like complaining about the women on sex and the city talking about shoes." It is, but not for the reason you are suggesting. You seem to think that these shows are supposed to be some sort of documentaries, full of "insights" like NFL players go to parties. It's…

ugh, don't do it! I fell for that a few weeks ago, reading something about the director's vision. The books are so, so astonishingly dull. I mean, everyone tells you the writing is terrible, the characters are flat, and the sex politics are squicky, but they don't say how painfully boring the thing is to get…

Ha! But then we would have missed out on the really heavy-handed rebirth/ evolution metaphor at the end of Gravity! you couldn't miss that!
I think for me the real tell about what a dangerous time it is for women is that she can't just get herself back to the stones — that even when she is being held more kindly…

Yeah, I do know what you mean. And I agree with you to some extent, which is that Jamie jumping through the window at that exact moment is completely ridiculous. I actually laughed, because it seems so incongruous. That said, I do think it's worth noting two things. She isn't just wandering off impetuously because…

I didn't love the episode either, though I didn't mind the split view so much for what it showed us as much as that it made the narrative arc of the 1700s feel a little aimless. However, I will say this focus on there needing to be consequences is a bit unsettling. She isn't exactly living free and carelessly here -…

Well, I am a big fan of the books and I thought the political import of the oath taking scene was pretty well-bungled. Murtagh barely explains it at all to Claire, and there is no reason to expect people who haven't read the books to understand it. All we saw was just a lot of hard stares between Dougal and Colum…