I assume that factor, plus sanitation concerns, are why pets have historically been barred from emergency shelters.

Okay, I hear you but... I would direct your attention to a number of outfits worn by Elton John and Freddie Mercury, on stage. They weren’t nobodies.  They were already somebody.  But they undeniably had a huge camp energy.  

Same here. I tended to view it that he was always worthy, but Mjolnir wasn’t going to allow itself to be lifted for a frivolous reason. I suppose I further just thought that, having not been able to lift it at that time, Steve just put it in the back of his mind, and didn’t really think about trying to do so again.

Well done.  Deep cut. (I really loved those movies!)

(I also have a tendency to forget that I’m on the older end of the voter scale, in my 50s.)

Okay, yeah, that’s good answer.

Honest to god, I’m so baffled.   He was fine as Obama’s VP, of course.  I like all the bro memes as much as the next person.  I don’t hate the guy!  But like... why?

Genuine question: where did the “one term pledge” thing even come from?This is the first I’ve seen it mentioned, and I’m scratching my head.  My only familiarity with it is from reading the biography of Teddy Roosevelt.  (Who, of course, after ascending to the presidency after McKinley’s assassination, served out…

Not just that, but Passover too.  My local store has a big and well-stocked section aimed at Passover, and I think a lot of area stores did as well.  

(ha ha, same!  the nearby Shaws is good for stopping in and grabbing a couple of things the Stop & Shop inexplicably doesn’t carry.  But I’m not happy about having to shop there.  I might have to brave Market Basket...)

Limited anecdotal evidence. Stop & Shop is my main supermarket, I’m in the Boston area. The store is really clean, well-stocked, and the employees are nice, on occasion going out of their way to be helpful.

Gravity Falls.

(I’d make an exception for when you weren’t specifically asked to bring wine, but you didn’t know what else to bring so you brought wine anyway, and it was like bringing coals to Newcastle -- the host had already opened multiple bottles, plus had plenty of beer.  So your wine didn’t get opened, but just because the…

Same.

Having hit 50, yeah, apparently I’ve been grinding my teeth / clenching my jaw for a few years, and it has resulted in a bunch of cracks in my teeth. One required a crown. (The process of which resulted in the dentist inducing vertigo, which is now a chronic recurring medical issue, hooray.) I’ve got other cracks…

I am partly identifying with this article, and partly feeling relieved that my case isn’t as bad as yours, Drew. I started having to use a night-guard last year, after my dentist said, “did you know you’re grinding your teeth in your sleep?” and I said, “how would I know that unless you told me?” (I loved how they…

Tom, I enjoyed following this column every bit as much as “A History of Violence”, so thank you for that! And I’ve been wondering what you might do next — I love the idea of looking at the highest-grossing pics of each year, no matter what film that turns out to have been.  Can’t wait for the new series!

I hear you, but at this point last year, I did not expect Spider-Verse to turn out to be as transcendant as it was; or for Aquaman to become THAT popular.  (I agree with Tom’s choice of BP here, but if he had chosen S-V, that would have made sense too.)

I mean, I agree with you that S-V is the more solid movie (and i loved BP too). But this column was never about the “best” superhero movie of a given year; it was about the “most influential”.

Yeah, it was clear that it was Stormbreaker in the previous trailer, because we got a glimpse of him leaning on it, and Mjolnir is obviously not tall enough for him to do that.