Yeah, I remember that around the same time the Kindle started to get big there were these machines that would print-on-demand paperback books that some bookstores had. Looking it up, apparently they survived until this year but I hadn’t seen one for years. Basically they failed because anyone geeky enough to like the…

Of course King, being a movie director himself, should have made his own version. Maybe it would have been nearly as good as Maximum Overdrive!

The This is Spinal Tap commentary (where all the band members comment as if they were their characters) is brilliant. It’s almost as funny as the movie itself.

Also with how her eyes kind of popped out, a bit like Anya Taylor-Joy as well.

You’re just saying that because you are a squirrel pretending to be Superman. (assuming Happy Tree Friends was the reference you were going for in your name)

I always liked how 1) Orville Redenbacher was a real guy 2) that was really him in the ads, not an actor (at least before his death in 1995).

How about Falschperückeaussehenhaare? Still maybe not long enough.

the true story of Donna and Reverand Martin, who adopted 77 children in East Texas.

Also, at least where I am, except maybe opening weekend for a Marvel movie, it doesn’t really matter -- you’ll get a good seat no matter what. I regularly see theaters at my local Regal about 25% full. Often worse. When I went to Dial of Destiny last year (a couple of weeks after it opened) I was literally the only…

No, in the DC suburbs these days. But I’ve been to Ipswich for conferences held at New England Biolabs there. As somebody who used to be really into the Call of Cthulhu RPG the North Shore is always amusing because Ipswich, Danvers, etc. are mentioned in HPL’s stories.

Or the Persian carpet store down the block from me that has said “Going out of business. Everything must Go!” on its sign ever since I moved to where I am nearly a decade ago.

They are basically living Tic-tacs!

Was “Tangled” “hip”? It was a pretty straight Disneyfication of Rapunzel with nothing sarcastic about it.

When I was in grade school in the 1970s, our school chorus did songs from the Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” in our performances. Kids singing pop songs of earlier decades isn't new.

Oh, come on. Like “Neil Armstrong” isn’t an obvious pseudonym that could be applied to any piece of spam in a can. I mean, it is about as plausible as “Slim Goodbody”, the guy who used to teach fitness & health to children in the 1970s.

Yes, but remember they are masterminds. So when they get a wrong answer their opponent has to tell them if they got the right color in the right position and where they have the right color but in an incorrect position. After several rounds they should be able to get the right answer.

I guess it’s a harmless bit of work for Mike Myers who seems to be not in demand after his last few flops. I still think it would be nice to have a Wayne’s World 3 movie akin to the third Bill & Ted movie (I know Myers & Carvey have reprised the characters in Super Bowl ads and the like but that’s not what I mean).

You are very young and don’t remember the original (animated) Transformers movies from the 1980s. Spielberg had nothing to do with the original Transformers movie in 1986, at least according to Wikipedia.

There’s a whole series of such sketches from Mitchell & Webb. My favorite is the conspiracy (which as an American, I hadn’t even heard of) that Prince Phillip ordered the assassination of Diana as revenge for humiliating Charles. The sketch makes fun of the idea that British intelligence services would even care what…

You joke, but the company that makes the game has officially renamed it to just “Catan” because they were worried about the colonial implications of “Settlers”.