...no, it’s still not our business. Whether or not a comedian discusses his marriage in his act—and I think we tend to overestimate the degree to which a comedian and his private life is truly reflected in his “persona”—is immaterial.

What do you think the next thing will be that will go from beloved to terrifying in a generation or two?  My guess is animatronic figures.  While there’s always been something a little unsettling about their unnatural movements, kids of my age loved Chuck E Cheese and the Showbiz Pizza characters.  Now with Five…

Mad Men, Season 7, episode 7, it ends with Pete, Peggy and Don at Burger Chef.

But isn’t this really just taxonomy, which is a way to organize our knowledge, rather than science, which is a way to expand it? What actually changes if we decide to alter the definition of the word “planet”? I doubt it makes any difference to individual astronomers studying one body or another. It’s not like Pluto’s…

Well, robots are known to steal old people’s medication, and the insurance to combat that is quite expensive.

The one thing I really don’t get is why they’re encouraging people to risk themselves and the people around them in order to watch a film. The industry definitely needs to adapt considering we’re getting multiple Covid waves/variants and still dealing with certain states that refuse to even support basic precautionary…

I can see what you’re most likely trying to say — that, due to the perceived maturity of their actions, these people don’t deserve to be called Men, because Men are somehow better than Boys and, so, this person should choose to date better men — but let’s call a spade a spade. These were (presumably) full-grown men…

Sounds like you’ve been dating boys, not Men.

Was there a twist in The Suicide Squad? I guess for unfamiliar audiences the first team dying is a rug-pull but that’s the first 15 minutes of the movie, I didn’t think anything after that was supposed to be a twist.

Yipee-ay-yippee-yeah! Yipee-ay-yippee-yeah!

I've worked with her. She IS actually very cool! The song has been  beaten to death, but it's not a bad song. I've heard worse!

Yeah, but the Keanu Reeves I’ve been talking to is the real one, right?...Right?

It’s Pumpkin spice! That stuff is in everything these days, not just Lattes.

Judging by the sequel, even the writer of Sicario doesn’t seem to understand its point.

It seems the ones complaining about this are big blockbuster movies. As someone who used to go to Blockbuster every weekend and rent a couple indy movies, not every movie needs to feel like an epic action movie.

Largely agree, except that the Delta variant is a bitch, and my small kids aren’t vaccinated yet. COVID isn’t transmitted by fomites, so surfaces don’t matter. But masks definitely decrease the spread radius, so they’re more than hygiene theater if you have vulnerable people in your life IMO.

...and then there are those of us (the majority, I might argue, based on the multiple veg groups I’m in) who are screamingly happy that there are meat-adjacent options available to us.

This so much. I’m a meat eater, but eat veg and vegan often. Having a fake meat entree still centers the meal around a “meat” type thing that’s most likely a processed food. It’s so easy to eat veggie and legume based dishes that give you protein and fill you up without a bunch of gums and fillers and over-processed…

And for some it is. So?

I much prefer the Impossible burger over the Beyond Meat. But the Beyond Meat brats are the very best sausages you can find. I don’t like Field Roast links and I don’t like Upton’s jackfruit - it’s too wet and has none of the “char” or fattiness of pulled pork. I just buy a can of jackfruit in water and make it myself…