Yeah, I can’t narrow it down to one Hum song either. My answer to this is “anything by Hum that’s not Stars”.

Her name is Tahani. Tahini is a sauce.

I know that letter grades aren’t that important, that each show is judged against itself, etc. But it’s a little strange to look at the TV Reviews page and see an A for both Great News and The Good Place. The Good Place is a hilarious, complicated, surprising show. Great News is a knockoff of 30 Rock blended with…

I bought a 6-pack of Old Brown Dog recently for the first time years. It’s much better than I’d remembered. Too bad Smuttynose changed their Christmas beer, or else I’d still buy that too.

Good article, but I’m a little sad to see a Dennis Lee article about food that isn’t bizarre and/or disgusting. Can you at least tell me which Korean food pairs well with Fart Dip?

The link in the Electric Dreams writeup goes to Alex McLevy’s page, not the actual review for the show.

The AV Club: All Sexual Harassment, All the Time!

The other Kinja sites are for people who like to discuss cars, or gadgets, or extremely lame “life hacks”. Humor is neither required nor encouraged.

I’ve been calling her Crandall!

The Kinja AV Club is inferior to the old site in every way; I don’t argue with that. But I put a lot of the blame on the commenters that chose to leave, instead of staying here and trying to keep the community alive.

I don’t get it either. So many people declared that switching to Kinja would kill the AV Club community, so they quit, thus decisively killing the AV Club community. Now there are multiple sites with smaller commenting communities, all of which are inferior to the site they’re trying to replace.

I’d rather watch 113 minutes of Ron Funches singing George Michael’s “Father Figure”.

I heard Bed Wettin’ Bad Boys on the radio this morning. Pretty good song, extremely stupid band name.

I liked Tandy’s insane rant / example of good parenting. Otherwise, this was terrible. And now Fred Armisen is going to show up and make everything worse.

I wanted to see Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach on the list so I could complain about it. It’s not on the list; I’ll complain anyway.

The book was hilarious. A lot of the joke is that it’s a bad novelization, with intentionally awkward writing and references to scenes from the movie. (One chapter keeps describing how cool a car-jumping stunt would look in a movie.) That may not translate well to an audiobook.

This black-ops secret government agency has an amazingly tight budget. Sure, they can afford complicated AIs, lethal security systems, and whatever complicated gear the agents use, but there’s no money for chairs or snacks. Also, they can only afford 2 agents.

Where did they get matching suits for Todd and Jasper? (Follow-up questions: Where do they get anything that they use ever, including food?)

I love my Thermapen. I don’t use it for anything as complicated as homebrewing, but it’s great for grilling and general cooking.

In Against a Dark Background, a non-Culture sci-fi novel by Iain M. Banks, there’s a few chapters set in a very backwards and isolated society. They believe that the gods bring nothing but misfortune, so their religion is god-hatred. Priests chant litanies about how much they hate the gods, churches ring bells to…