Passengers on my June flight from SFO to JFK were treated to a showing of John Carter. I looked up and down the plane and could not find anyone who was both looking at the screen and listening to the soundtrack in headphones. Some had brought something specifically interesting to them and were looking at that. …

QT challenged himself with something more restrained and empathetic when he made Jackie Brown. The public did not particularly reward him. That's the one *I* like to watch repeatedly.

Harrison Bergeron was a migraine sufferer.

"I'm a 7. He's a 4. How could he cheat on me?" You could have at least treated him like a six. Might have slowed it down.

That rope is a formal request, not an actual barrier. It's nice to see it honored; one can cultivate a little faith in people.

Winning is a state of mind, and players seem to have trouble letting it go when the game is over.

It's called first person shooter. If you swell their ranks a few will emerge to try to bring their winning game to the game they are losing.

Here is Lena Dunham's $3.7 Million Book Proposal

Good white chocolate (Perugina, Droste) is everything milk chocolate is without the cocoa. The Cocoa butter taste in a good one is dominant, and will satisfy most of any chocolate craving. Crummy white chocolate tastes like nonfat dry milk and palm kernel oil, and is not fit for adult consumption. (Spikes the mic.)

Don't get me started on the historic carousel band organs (plural) under a few hundred feet of Atlantic Ocean just off the Jersey Shore.

Progress? We stopped hoping for anything better than truce a decade ago.

Same filmmaker-educator as the Hexaflexagon. And I will not keep anyone company over on the "what's wrong with her voice" bench. I think she sounds like an angel who reads a lot and I adore her speech patterns.

There you go, rednaz, robbing them with that fountain pen.

You do honor and credit to your faith. I have a couple of friends who love Christ the way you do, and I would do anything for them.

The old disappointed self-doubting characters were all so lovable you just wanted to kiss them, and the young characters were kind of remote in their fevered certitude. When the search party is successful McDormand grabs her daughter and seems surprised that she can't get the tween up into her arms like before. It's…