Oh brother... All the poor VFX artists slaving away in front of their computers from now until November working 22 hour days on the fucking Sonic The Hedgehog movie. It sounds like the lowest ring of hell.

I watched Pulp Fiction the other day and now my Facebook has ads for gimp suits.  I am not joking.  This is very serious.  

Japanese coffee companies have a long history of doing weird shit:

I’m going to be one of those squares, who little children in fifty years will marvel at, when I say I didn’t see a single Marvel film in the theater.  

For anyone curious, the character of Spike Spiegel, both his design and his personality, is based on a character named Shunsaku Kudo (played by Yusaku Matsuda), the lead of a 1970s Japanese cop show called “Tantei Monogatari” (Detective Story).

I’ve been getting more and more sick of the Netflix Mush formula. Everything has the same prestige-lite sheen, the same generally solid casts underserved by their scripts, the same algorithm-dictated cliffhangers, the same slow goddamn pacing... Just add a dash of superhero seasoning to the mush, or crime, or sci-fi,…

All you have to do is follow the plot of book 4. That’s it. That is all that is required. If there’s some unsavory bits you want to get rid of, ok, I might be fine with that, but something that’s 95% faithful to Wizards and Glass will be amazing. Easily my favorite book in the series, and I’ve re-read it more than the…

I teach in the Bay Area and have lost count of how many blank stares I’ve gotten when I say that I chose my career because I genuinely find it useful and fulfilling. It frightens me how many people seem to think that making money is the only mark of a valuable life.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.

I’m envious of you missing the final episodes. You did yourself a favor. I was actually giddy about the first season (and I am NOT someone who gets giddy about TV, “Larry Sanders” excepted) but about halfway through the show’s run it really began to tread water as it simultaneously began to unravel. The final season…

The funny thing is, if a black person works their ass off to get into a school, racists will yell about affirmative action. MEANWHILE.........