Unless something bizarre happens like last year with Hermine*, I think it’s a safe bet that Jürgen and Giuseppe are facing each other in the final. For the third finalist, at this point I’m betting on Chigs. There’s always one baker who starts off middle of the pack and then starts rising toward the end, and he’s…

Man, I am not trying to say people won't do it. Rich people pay to climb Everest. Both will put you under physical strain and you'll be uncomfortable most of the time, but I'm sure the view is gorgeous. 

At least when you go pee in the woods you don’t have to worry about the possibility that you dribbled a little bit of pee outside of your vacuum tube and since the pee isn’t tethered to gravity it will drift around in your environment and end up in some sensitive equipment that is keeping you from dying. I too fantasiz…

This implies that it was at all a decision he even considered.

I admire (actual) astronauts immensely, but doesn’t living in space still kinda suck? Like, sometimes it literally sucks, like when they have to poo and use one of those whacky space vacuum toilets.

... keep watching.

I’m so glad people liked Puddy. One of my favorite guessing games in comedy shows is trying to spot the side characters that the writers fell in love with and kept writing parts for. Like Hedonism Bot. Also, I’m guessing here, Dennis Duffy. Puddy episodes make up a good chunk of my favorite “Seinfeld” episodes.

Larry Elder, is that you?

Alright, you’re grey and I’m grey so I don’t have to feel as responsible for bumping your comment. But I just want to take you to task for the repeated claim that I hear from people who don’t want trans kids to get a chance to participate in sports: sports for are inherently unfair especially for people ages 10 - 20.

I wonder with Hughes what percentage of his movies were his. There are certainly aspects of his teen movies that I wish I could pull out of them, the dynamic between Sam and her family forgetting her birthday in “Sixteen Candles,” for example. My family collectively forgot my 17th birthday so I have always related to…

I’ve been reading a book that deals with the red scare in Hollywood in the 1950s and it wades into the world of 50s westerns. Maybe it’s just the decade age difference, but the book makes it seem like Jimmy Stewart’s “Broken Arrow” was groundbreaking by even humanizing the indigenous Americans in it. Also, it’s a bit…

The part of me that loves Planes, Trains, and Automobiles wants to disagree with you but... you’re not wrong. Even that movie is pretty unkind. I would argue it’s saved by the dynamic between the two leads, but what’s good about it isn’t the story.

The Reader had one of the slowest credit rolls that I can remember from working in a theatre.

The difference between the cost of Y and The Great probably comes down to locations. While The Great is dripping in extravagant costumes it pretty much takes place in one palace. To an extent I’m sure the production team can redress and rearrange furniture and props to repurpose rooms. Y has (had?) quite a few…

Sure, but that goes both ways. Just like it’s not violating free speech for a private company to fire someone for leaking data, it wouldn’t be violating free speech for that same company to choose to take down the special.

I spent a few years working in a theatre that, at that time, was a few years shy of being 100 years old. The last few months I was there I was running projection back when it was all 35mm prints. We were encouraged to screen new prints the night before they premiered to troubleshoot any problems with the build ahead…

The more children see adults not wearing helmets when biking and skateboarding the more they’re getting the message that the helmet is infantilizing or uncool or encumbering. I used to see this dad biking around with his young kid (probably about 8 or so), kid in a helmet and dad without. You just know that as soon as…

He should be wearing a helmet.

That’s my guess as well. I’m reminded of the case of Shane Miller. He killed his family including his two young daughters and fled to the forests of northern California in a place where he was rumored to have a bunker. There was a big manhunt for him, but it was a whole year before someone found his dead body not far…

Sorry, but this just doesn’t satisfy me. Discovery has found the time to introduce new characters each season (Spock, Pike, and Jett Reno in season 2 and then Adira and Booker in season 3) and flesh them out. They also dangled one tiny factoid about Owo to use her to save the fuckin’ day at the end of season 2. I get…