He was sort of awesome on Rupaul's Drag Race.

The Scudworth running gag may not work, but at least it gave us "YOU'VE GOT CRABS, ASS FACE!"

Or, if you are in the Commonwealth, "arse". Which is actually much funnier. "Unbreak My Arse", "Tell It To My Arse", "Stop Draggin' My Arse Around"…. it's endless.

Since I've never read any of the three books — the last Atwood I read was "Alias Grace", and goddamn could that really have been fifteen years ago? — I think I am going to read them in reverse order when I get back from vacation.

In her review of "Top Gun", Pauline Kael called him a "dinky, Nautilized thing", which is actually perfect.

Bruce Willis as a drunken British reporter was unforgivable, but at least he was having fun. Melanie Griffith and Kim Cattrall were just hopelessly bad, actually embarrassing to watch.

So Dexter watched Symbolic Mommy get killed by a crazy person with a big knife, broke into the house to witness her death, and then hugged her, exposing his back and somehow forgetting the fact that as far as he knew, the house still contained a crazy person with a big knife who could be creeping up behind him?

I didn't think all the adult men were evil, but I did think they were all horrible: Johnno had that violent streak (he beat the shit out of Sarge) and he spent eight years in jail on drug charges. The only male character in the entire series who seemed to be a decent human being was Jamie (I didn't count him because…

About fifteen minutes into "Top of the Lake", I said to myself, "Oh, christ: this is going to be one of those dreary affairs in which every man is a misogynist brute and every woman and child is a victim." And so it turned out to be. I watched it to the end just to see if it ever got any better: it never did. All the…

They're like drug addicts! And the lengths they go to to collect those eggs, and keep fake records about their provenance in case of arrest, and build entire elaborate hiding places to store them…. It's a kind of madness I could never even have imagined. I mean, eggs! Honestly!

There was a thoroughly fascinating piece in the New Yorker last month about birds'-egg collectors, who are engaged in a really, really illegal pursuit and are kind of insane:

Oh, Mom.

I really love De Palma too — "Casualties of War", "Dressed to Kill", and "Blow Out" are genuinely great movies, I think "Snake Eyes" is terrific fun, despite its many ridiculousnesses, and I would even contrarily put in a good word for "Bonfire of the Vanities" — but "Body Double" is just an empty exercise in…

How is "Bend Her" not on this list, and in fact on everyone's list?

Annette Haven auditioned for the role that Melanie Griffith got, which means that Melanie Griffith is more like a porn star than an actual porn star is.

I haven't seen the episode, but did they mention that there's an entire cookbook, "Manifold Destiny", of recipes meant to be cooked on the engine block of a car, with cooking times given in miles and all road-tested by the authors?

I haven't seen the episode, but did they mention that there's an entire cookbook, "Manifold Destiny", of recipes meant to be cooked on the engine block of a car, with cooking times given in miles and all road-tested by the authors?

Coulda been worse. Some variety show on TV a long long time ago (DON'T BLAME ME I WAS WATCHING IT WITH MY GRANDMOTHER) changed it to "A real groovin' wagon."

Coulda been worse. Some variety show on TV a long long time ago (DON'T BLAME ME I WAS WATCHING IT WITH MY GRANDMOTHER) changed it to "A real groovin' wagon."