I had a wart on the bottom of my foot when I was about 12 or 13. I picked at it constantly with nail clippers. It lasted some months - maybe up to a year. Knowing what I know now, I think it just ran its course and fell off naturally, but I really believed at the time I had managed to slice it out. (For the record, I…

I first read the headline as “Here is Your Cat’s Spring Cleaning Checklist,” and I was like, I guarantee you my cat doesn’t want me to clean a godsdamn thing.

Eh, I’ve mostly gotten to the point with reviews for things I worry about being spoiled (spoiler warning or not) that I just scroll down to the grade/rating, and come back to read the actual review after I’ve seen it.

I think because it’s very hard to talk about it without including any spoilers. I was talking to a friend about it last night, and I had to ask her permission to spoil something that is actually not super spoilery (if you know Scream movies), but which is still always a question mark going into each movie. It was…

This was actually something I was thinking while watching, specifically how it definitely couldn’t be certain characters (at least not in the costume) because their height just wouldn’t make sense.

I think they could have sold the family of killers angle better if the killers’ performances had demonstrated more of the pained rage that might drive one to do what they’ve done. One thing Laurie Metcalf did really well as Mrs. Loomis was make you believe that she really was doing this because of how hurt and angry…

Financial betrayal at the hand of a parent is rough. It’s not anywhere near the degree of what happened to Jewel, but when I was in college, my mother stole my identity and took out like a half dozen credit cards.

This is more of a side note, but I really want to thank you for reviewing episodes rather than recapping them with a few pieces of commentary scattered throughout. Episode “reviews” on here have frustratingly shifted to being more and more of the latter, and I come here for the former. So, thank you for still writing…

I’m not sure. I picture at least an episode where Richmond plays West Ham, and Richmond loses. Nate wants to brag and stick it to Ted, but Ted just doesn’t take the bait (because of course he doesn’t) and is even nice to Nate about it. This would send Nate on a further spiral (possibly leading to Rupert firing him as…

The fact that the device is shared and that you can check up on what the kid did when you get home isn’t the same as supervised. You’re still letting the kid use what is basically a small computer without supervision. In that case, just let them have their own device with parental controls on it.

I used to be a huge fan of the Oscars. In my teens (ah, back when I was young and naive), I thought they were so important and clearly the winners were really the best of their category that year.

I would argue that we were still seeing extremely popular movies regularly winning into the first half of the 90s.

I think it’s more that the only way that the more character driven dramas that tend to be popular with the awards get made now is by smaller studios or the arthouse subsidiaries of major studios. Not saying that spectacle can’t be Best Picture worthy (EEAaO is a great example of where filmmakers found a happy medium…

I like most of Lindelof’s stuff. Big Bang Theory, on the other hand, is a hard turn off. I’m choosing to look past that and give it a chance because the trailer looks good, and I really like Betty Gilpin.

Also, must be periodically replaced due to planned obsolescence that will make you lucky to have that thing functional in 3-5 years, even if you rarely use it.

Or I guess you could just have a landline if you want kids to be able to make calls.

They had me at, “No one calls Facebook ‘Doug.’”

I am guessing broadcast networks are also looking for things that have the broadest appeal. A cable show may be a hit - on a cable ratings scale. Broadcasters seem to want much higher ratings numbers than cable will settle for.

Well, there IS a reason for that. Broadcast networks are more strictly regulated with respect to content. “The FCC does impose certain restraints and obligations on broadcasters. Speech regulations are confined to specific topics, which usually have been identified by Congress through legislation or adopted by the FCC…