Kevin and The Man in the Tan Jacket from Welcome to Night Vale. Kevin was particularly fun since: my costume involved a great deal of fake blood, it was my first Halloween at a new job, and I was the only one in my department that dressed up.

Kudos for dressing up as a podcast character! I’ve done that a couple years and my favorite part is having to explain what a podcast even is, let alone who I’m dressed as.

...For some reason I read this in the “Law and Order” intro narration voice...

One of my (tall, skinny) friends did an excellent Slender Man several years ago. I think the best part is the commitment: he steadfastly refuses to acknowledge that he was at the party and claims he was “out of town” despite all the photos with him looming in the background.

I think it’s the “bad toupee” fallacy: they don’t notice non-asshole vegans so they assume all vegans are assholes.

This was my interpretation as well. I also think it adds a nice retroactive layer to Hattley saying earlier in the season that she was protecting Nadeem due to his financial issues.

I think that might be the writers’ justification for Julie’s murder but, as was covered in an earlier review, I think it would have been more interesting to simply have Fisk rely on Dex screwing up. That presents Fisk as a more thoughtful, subtle villain which is more frightening to me. Like the way he manipulates…

So I’ve only ever cried at one movie (Hotel Rwanada, I was 15, went to the theater alone, and had no idea what I was in for) and I’ve not so much as teared up at a Pixar movie. I can tell when things are supposed to make someone cry. Like watching that Hodor scene on Game of Thrones I thought to myself “I bet this…

I... sort of agree with Ali? I don’t get the urge to write a massive email to a stranger asking for their input on her thoughts about race, but I think she’s correct that apathetic white people will seize any excuse not to have to think about racial oppression. So it makes some sense to try to minimize those…

I’m not sure why you’re surprised that people are frightened about pregnancy. Even people who are purposely pregnant have fears (complications, miscarriage, the “normal” bodily changes that accompany the condition, social expectations and stigma, etc), so people who do not want to be pregnant have those same fears in…

Pumpkin spice itself (much as it loathes me to call the spice blend by one of its least-inspired applications) is fine: it’s essentially basic mulling spices. The problem is that food manufacturers in the US have decided that they can pack their garbage food with sugar and some vague spice dust, slap a “pumpkin spice”…

Look. Fall is objectively the best season and I will never tell someone they can’t have pumpkin spice enemas or whatever strikes their fancy. But don’t you dare sit there and try to claim that the sickly bullshit they pass off as “pumpkin spice” is the “flavor of fall”. Don’t you dare.

I think if they were pumpkin and not pumpkin spice they’d probably be fine.

His “Hot Ones” interview is delightful:

I would say that I am aware that both things are bad. But, given that sexual assault is more severe and significantly more common than false accusations, and given that emphasizing extraordinarily rare false accusations directly impacts sexual assault victims, I would question why you felt compelled to interject.

I don’t think this sign is used to indicate the bathroom for trans people separate from other facilities a la “men”, “women”, and “whichever”. Certainly that setup would be insulting. But only having signs that say “whichever” doesn’t seem like it’s singling out trans people, nor does it seem to reduce trans people to…

I think someone told him he should maybe not say “the gays” so instead of claiming support from “the gays” he claims support from “the LGBT’s”.

While I am biased (I dearly love my Kindle and even have a custom leather case for it), I think books-only e-readers count as reading while reading on a multi-function device (e.g. tablet or phone) counts as screen-time. I think it’s more to do with screen brightness and whether you’re looking at images or words.

Fair enough.

I believe the “which” is referring to the user’s gender and not to the user themselves: “whichever gender you are, feel free to use this restroom”.