(This isn't the interview with Saracho that I was thinking of, but it's interesting— she mentions that Raúl Castillo (Richie) was her boyfriend in high school.)

I'm sure looking for face scrub etc. was how Patrick justified opening the cabinet in the first place, but when he saw what was clearly a pill bottle on the top shelf he picked it out, shook it, and took a good look at the label.

Yeah, what I meant was that for people from that tradition, there's not always such a clear line between what's "straight-up Catholic" and the rest of it (or straight-up whatever— I've known people from the Caribbean who were nominally Baptists or from small evangelical denominations, but also had an assortment of…

I may well have misread your comment, but I'm still having trouble figuring out what your point is. Of course Patrick hasn't only been on two dates. But this is only his second experience of something resembling a relationship, and you seemed to be saying the show would not be "serious" unless it made that particular…

I really like how the show is handling Richie's religious/superstitious/whatever you want to call it belief system. I'm pretty whitebread from a Midwestern Protestant background, but I've known a fair number of people who grew up with some mixture of devout Christianity and folk magic traditions, which for them were…

The Sutro ruins sure are cool, but not quite as old as everyone thinks— the place was built in 1896 but stayed in operation till 1966.

"BLEW IT"? Good grief. Richie talks about having been in a relationship with an HIV+ man and learning to deal with it, but for you the show is a failure unless it makes Richie himself be positive? And you somehow know that the show doesn't "truly want to examine real gay relationships" because that didn't happen in…

Niven's reputation as being super-serious about hard science is based more on his enthusiastic attitude, the way he gestures toward science, than on any great degree of accuracy— I don't mean that in a pissy way, some of my favorite things of his are the ones that are full of scientific howlers (and not just in…

I don't think it makes sense for the O'Quinn character in Fight the Future to be non-human. When he claims he's going to disarm the bomb, and then we see that he's just sitting there not even trying, it's obvious that he's involved in the conspiracy somehow but he sure doesn't look like someone who knows he's…

This is from a couple years ago but still accurate, I think. And Honey Mahogany is a local institution.

I don't know, I don't really see the resemblance, beyond the super general part where they're both kind of flaky and would piss me off if I knew them. Agustin is capable of friendship in ways Jessa isn't. He also has goals and standards for himself and has gotten depressed about not living up to them.

It's just a very different style of writing and acting from Girls. Girls is satire, Looking isn't really. I like them both a lot.

I didn't think Patrick was too uncomfortable about Folsom or leather in general - he was mildly trying to convince Kevin to go there. He only got really flustered when his friends wanted him to wear the vest. He doesn't think of himself as being able to pull off that style.

I've been there about half a dozen times. The show obviously didn't capture the scale and explicitness of it, but just for background atmosphere I thought it was pretty realistic. No idea what you mean about "too newbie for people who live in San Francisco" - there are lots and lots of people who live here who aren't…

I don't know, I think I really like how the show so pointedly avoids revealing any first-hand evidence of what Hannah's writing is like. A lot of the characters who have praised her don't necessarily come across as very reliable or objective (whatever that would even mean in this case)— their reactions only tell us…

Oh man, thanks a lot. Up till now I thought the falling Mulder actually looked kind of spooky and nicely rendered. Now I can't stop giggling at the thought of him bouncing back up again.

I think I may have actually watched that very episode in that very way— I briefly dated someone who considered Doctor Who to be an acceptable form of foreplay, which could be either the whole episode or just the first 5 minutes of the episode depending on how bad it was. We didn't always bother to turn off the TV (or,…

Am I the only one who found "Daemonicus" to be… not necessarily good, but very effective and disturbing as shit?

What made you think that the point of that scene was "to show how insensitive/hipster/whatever they are"?

Good grief, "reminding someone that you're paying to write a feature piece" was hardly the thing that made that guy a dick. He had a really unpleasant personality, of a type I got very familiar with in NYC (though I'm not sure it's a personality type so much as an assortment of favorite drugs). People who are not…