(Not to defend this asshole in any way, but I suspect what he is trying to say is that others referring to “West Virginia people” as a generalization is somehow racist. Like, “West Virginia people are idiots”. So the quote from him above needs some additional punctuation: “Is [saying] ‘West Virginia people’ racist?”)

A few days late, but chiming in to say: completely with you. Liverwurst sandwiches were a staple in our (Philly) house when I was a kid, and I don’t think there was ever a time I didn’t love them. (I also loved scrapple and pork roll when I was little; and still do, of course. And I see you mention “kaiser” rolls,…

It holds up. Great movie.

I first watched JAWS when I was 13, home alone, in a house in earshot of the ocean crashing on the beach. A+ decision, let me tell you.

Having read both books (plus the one about death in Yosemite, “Off the Wall”), I sort of agree. While the Grand Canyon one has a lot of falling deaths, plus drowning deaths (Colorado River), Yellowstone wins by virtue of sheer weirdness. It’s the boiling alive thing. Hard to top that.

“the home counties of the UK”?

I think what you’re saying about Mickey is exactly right. But for me, the problem with some of the recent Muppets stuff is the opposite. In the sitcom, I couldn’t keep watching because it struck me as too mean-spirited.

(See below for my additional rec — if you’re a fan of Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and OTGW, and you haven’t checked out Gravity Falls yet, do!)

Rereading the original comment - I’m also going to recommend “Gravity Falls” to you. It’s another kids show that stands alongside Steven Universe and Adventure Time, but it has the advantage that it ran for 2 seasons (of 20 eps each), and then ended (a couple of years ago). The creator told the story he wanted to…

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.