Over the Garden Wall cannot possibly be recommended enough. It’s brilliant. Also: while it is a 10-episode mini-series, each episode is only about 12 minutes long. So the time investment is about movie-length.

Everything he does and says is distasteful. His EXISTENCE is distasteful.

The sad thing is, I disagree with Brennan only on this point: I tend to think “the dustbin of history” means someone that history has forgotten. But history is going to remember Trump, even if he does no more than he has done already. It’s going to be talking about Trump’s presidency FOREVER, because down through…

I was just thinking about that, about Doonesbury, the other day. I know it was a whole thing once he came back from his hiatus and started trying to draw more dynamically or something. But I’d grown up reading all the original anthologies in which everybody was always seen only in profile, with the very occasional…

Seriously, I saw a thinkpiece last week lump Gen X in with the Boomers and I was like... No. Don’t do that. The Boomers started out by shitting on us. We were the first to start inheriting the problems the Boomers left in their wake.

The very best part is that I can’t tell which asshole which interior belongs/ed to. I can GUESS, but it’s a toss-up.

I found this piece really heartbreaking, too.

(I love Fraser a LOT, I have seen many of his movies in the theater because they were his movies; but, I agree with you. I’m not saying he would have sucked, but in my head, he doesn’t fit in the Superman niche. I’m trying to think what superhero he WOULD fit. It’s just that his Rick from the Mummy is basically his…

You do have to wonder what Affleck and Damon’s careers would be if they hadn’t had Good Will Hunting.

Which past mistakes are you referring to?

Same; I associate it with Letterman, too.

I honestly took that more as “there are three of us, and you’re the only one who can be spared to sit back here and do this thing; the other two of us are more valuable outside”.

Increasing numbers the last few years. Especially AMC chains. You pick your actual seats if you buy a ticket online (usually they’re the super large recliner seats); or if you show up to the box office, they allow you to pick the seats right then. Really large number of theaters in the Boston area have this now. …

It absolutely was not a thing in the Philadelphia area in the late 80s.

Well, yeah, but they also both discover a lot of things about each other that they didn’t know before, and that their desires have more in common that they realized. What they confessed (to each other) through the personal ads gives them a lot more to explore through their relationship.

Yeah, but basically you have to view that song as advice, not just a straight-up weird story. The song is basically a message to everyone listening to it: hey you out there, fucking TALK to each other. Stop being afraid to tell your partner what you really want and what you really like. You’ll probably find out that…

No, that’s the point. The iced coffee comes in a plastic cup. But since there’s ice in it, holding the plastic cup directly makes people’s hands cold. So they ask for a styro cup, and put the plastic cup inside it as an insulated holder. (Granted, also prevents the ice melting as fast on hot days.)

They switched over to all paper in some of the Cambridge MA locations, for all sizes. It’s fine.

I was surprised the other day to actually see them in stock (two different brands I think) in a Walgreens. (I didn’t price them.)

+1 Mayor Wilson Goode.