It said *filing* taxes, not *paying* taxes, so I interpreted that to mean “yeah, the government is going to just keep all of the money you already paid, so we’re not going to go through the motions to pretend you might get a refund.” That’s why I voted for Postmates.

I think you might be talking about the same one I’m talking about. Momoa is a dead ringer for McBride in it, but it’s Momoa. I did a little digging, and it’s from an episode of The Game. Season 3, episode 20, The Fall of the Roman. He plays Roman. It’s on Hulu!

The thing about the “this gonna be good” gif where the guy unfolds the chair one-handed (versus the one where the guy is sneaking off with it under his arm) is that it’s *Jason Momoa*. I’m always amused to see him holding a lawn chair, period. He just doesn’t seem like the lawn chair type. It’s like seeing your grade…

We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. The title story was the basis for Total Recall, and there are a few others in there that became episodes in the Amazon PKD anthology series Electric Dreams. Oh! And also the Matt Damon movie The Adjustment Bureau and the Gary Sinise movie Imposter.

I ended up spending far more time hanging out with my aunt than planned, so I’m getting ready to pop a frozen pizza in the oven and call it good. Nothing but the finest 4-for-$5 trash over here!

My absolute favorite lip balm is from a little indie company called Notoriously Morbid. They split their lip balms into different collections — Winchester (as in Supernatural), Star Trek, literary, and miscellaneous — but they’re all the same formula. Just different flavors. I’m looking for my favorite lip color,…

I’m working on Lovecraft Country! I started it a while ago, lost it, and found it again last weekend. It’s good, but I can’t help wondering how much better it would have been if it had been written by virtually anyone other than a white dude in Seattle. Fingers crossed the HBO adaptation is better, although it’s being…

Now that you mention it, I’ve heard that theory before!

Aging could turn on him, though. I looked a lot like my dad when I was a kid, but the older I get, the more I look like my mom. It’s kind of spooky, although I could do a lot worse than look like my mom.

Thank you for the dupe rec! I refuse to buy anything from Lime Crime, aka the company run by Doe “I dress like Hitler for Halloween” Deere.

Merlin! Yay! I’ve been dragging my feet on watching this one because I want to be able to download it to my phone and play it in the background at work. I’ve watched a couple of episodes, and it’s perfect for this.

That reminds me of this gem from the ad server for a forum I used to be on several years ago (I left it for Reasons):

One of my coworkers just commented literally five minutes ago that Fox has sold almost everything that made it money to Disney except sports and news (we were talking about the OJ confession special going up against American Idol). Now that his comment is fresh in my mind, I can easily see them flipping through the…

The Kenzo video would get a pass for ripping off the Walken video because they were both directed by Spike Jonze, so it could be viewed more like a sequel than a mimic.

This. It seems like all of the complaints are coming from adults who want a movie made for adults. I saw it yesterday, and my fortysomething self didn’t watch this movie. My inner eight-year-old did, and she absolutely *loved* it. Near the start of the movie, I told my movie buddy, “I did not bring enough Kleenex for…

Holy shit, Nick Offerman’s “oh, it’s made out of pine” disappointment could pretty much be a direct quote from my grandfather the carpenter. I’ve watched a few Nick woodworking videos of multiple types, and they’re an absolute delight in a best-parts-of-my-childhood flashback way. I think my favorite was the one where…

I keep waiting for MoviePass to figure out what kinds of movies I watch, and they already have the data that indicates I watch horror, science fiction, comic book stuff, thrillers, and mysteries! They keep pushing romances at me. Take the basic premise of Every Day (someone turns into a different person every day) and…

This must be the place where I push a little horror flick made in 1999 (so the production might even predate the publication of the book Battle Royale, although the film wasn’t released until a couple of years later) called Series 7 directed by Dan Minahan! Short version of the plot: It’s a reality show where random…

Heh. I scrolled down to the bottom of that Seacrest article to see if there was any mention of Taraji P. Henson in it. Answer: No, at least not that I noticed in my quick skim, but there was an ad for Empire.

It was basically a form of performance art aka them just being weird.