Master Ninja Theme Song!

This is going to sound like an odd answer, but I'm going to say Blazing Saddles. What's great about it is that Sheriff Bart wins over everybody that crosses his path by the sheer dint of his goodness and decency. Even those who have been deliberately sent to Rock Ridge to destroy him — like Mongo and Lili Von Schtupp…

What if one of them wanted to go as The Bat? No "Best Group Costume" win for them!

I've seen it before. I'm ready for it.

But the Bush administration did twice over.

Buzz off, kid!

The last time I felt like this was in the days immediately after the 9/11 attacks. It took a while, but I was able to eventually feel joy again.

I'm afraid I'll be unavailable to watch this because I already have tickets to a screening of Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe Von Trotta's 1975 film The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, which is about an innocent woman mercilessly hounded by the authorities and the media after she unwittingly sleeps with a terrorist.…

Bob Roberts

On Tuesday night, in lieu of watching the election returns come in, I watched Joe Dante's Homecoming. Here's what I wrote about it that night:

I missed hearing about this on Tuesday because of my personal news blackout. I'm glad his passing didn't go unnoticed here.

I've been considering going on a sabbatical from comments sections. Even when the article in question is on the most innocuous subject imaginable, it's never long before some alt-right type barges in, crowing about their triumph. I don't need that sort of thing in my life.

Making it worse? How could it be worse? Jehovah! Jehovah! Jehovah! Jeho—

I feel the same way since I live in a state that went overwhelmingly for Trump. (In fact, it was one of the first to be called for him.) For the next four years, every time I go out in public my first thought is going to be "How many of these people voted for that man?"

Yeah, The Strangers is a film that methodically builds the tension throughout. The reveal that the masked man is inside the house is a superb shock, though.

It sucked ass, just not literally.

Having lived with him as my governor, I fear the prospect of a President Pence much more than a President Trump.

I haven't cried yet, but I fully expect to before this day is over.

I watched Spaceballs with my new roommate the night I arrived in Indiana, where I've lived for the past ten years. I can't watch it again until it's time for me to leave.

Let's sum up, shall we?