Mark Ruffalo is the OG woke bae. Michael Keaton snuck into the woke bae life at the SAG awards the other night though.

Woke Bae Emeritus.

I don’t have time to make a thorough case but what about Mark Ruffalo. Or is he just eternal Woke Bae, not necessarily just January?

I have a question: can the two criteria influence each other? Like, can someone become more bae due to their woke-fulness?

They need to change the job descriptions of the therapists who appear on these type of shows to “disaster facilitators”.

She is offering hotel rooms in the city of Detroit, not Flint.

Aretha Franklin is one of very few people on this planet who can namedrop without sounding pretentious. And damn does she know how to namedrop - there’s a time and place for everything, and this sure was it!

I got nothing but well, you know, for this lady.

“...coupling it with a per diem, which is food and beverage at the Coney Island just next door where they really have good food, because I go in there a lot”

I Say A Little Prayer for the people of Flint. The Chain of Fools who caused this to happen...Think about it! I mean Who’s Zoomin’ Who? I for one Respect this Natural Woman.

Geez, wealthy women in positions of power really are dangerous, huh?

I got to say that sentence once but they were pot dealers.

You know, I had completely repressed the memory of Octomom....until now.

There might be real mediums out there but this dude and the Long Island Medium I don’t believe. The few time I saw the LI medium she always says the same thing, "I just talked to so & so and they said that they love you.... Blah." Just once I want to see her tell someone, "Oh I just talked to Momma and she still…

I loved Phantom but it lead me down some dark rabbit holes of other version of it. Like the 2 part TV mini series and this one by Brian De Palma - Phantom of the Paradise! A mix between Phantom and Faust. I loved it and still do.

Also, you can totally tell that David is eye fucking the shit outta Svetla (the actress’s name escapes me). I don’t know. It was past my “bed time” (thanks stupid football game) and I didn’t finish watching (thanks Hulu for having the first episode up already). I’m hoping things get better.

Upcoming guest star and episode-by-episode X-files podcaster Kumail Nanjiani had an interesting question: would many of the old X-Files episodes/constructs work if placed in the age of mobile instant access Internet? It’s almost as if Carter is tackling that question head on with the first episode.