This is a very important point, in that it reveals so much about the weight given to attractiveness versus competence in assessments of women. Extreme competence, even excellence, can’t outweigh even a small step down in attractiveness (and of course, that’s the show-dog definition of attractiveness, ie, meeting…

It’s all my Blade Runner couture fantasies realized!!!

I’ve listened to it over and over, and I think it’s a back of the throat garble-thing as Cat’s starting the “A” of “and”. Unintentional Tuvan throat-singing?

Counter-point: Every single one of them is an orc, birthed out of mud and spite.

So this guy is 100% the real life version of Arcade Fire’s “Antichrist Television Blues”, right?

IS THIS REAL?? I too have now reached the cat collection limit and I need to get my virtual stray animal fix.

Important question: Did Josh Schwartz name his production company after a song by The National? And if so, was it only because Shins song title were too unwieldy?

So new money. Ill-gotten, blood-stained new money.

I honestly am more baffled about why she isn’t wearing gloves. Are fingers at their sexiest just before frostbite sets in?

OH MY GOD KNOWING THIS ALBUM IS APPRECIATED BY OTHERS THE WAY IT IS BY MY FAMILY IS THE GREATEST GIFT OF ALL!

My favorite thing I watched in 2015 is Season 2 of my favorite thing from 2014, Detectorists.

Is that Kai you know Kai Ryssdal? Because I fully support you naming your children after NPR personalities. You can follow Kai with a Michelle (MEE-chell) and then an Ofeibea Quist-Arcton (gotta go with the whole name on that one)

Good lord, if you’re suggesting people are naming their children after Jude the Obscure, I weep for those children (as hard as I did for the ones in that dismal, bleak book)

Thank you! Backyard bears got short shrift in 2015. Where is the nod for Hammock Bear?

Do you think use of “bagging the title” is an intentional pun about that dress, or an unfortunate coincidence?

Wait, which of those two do you consider the “no-shoes” culture?

Mine too!!! This song sounds like what a dystopian Brave-New-World-type future must feel like — devoid of absolutely everything but the pretense of emotion. It might as well be by Train. God, I hate this song.

I like that you went with the dog-leg “sad” and not the diagonal “sad” that crosses through it. This word soup is just chock full o’ “sad”.

Wait, why are we not focusing on the “no side dishes” element of this? That’s barbaric! I think you can report someone to child services for that.

That I only listened to 306 different tracks.