It can't be coincidental that this is coming from the director of My Life as a Dog, in which an emotionally traumatized boy identifies with various dogs, and Chocolat, which is poisonous to French dogs.

The private schools (not necessarily religious) that we considered range from $14,200 to $27,500 per year.

Babies do tend to be big proponents of the nanny state.

Y'know, for my kid's first few years I vowed we'd never send him to public school, not because I distrust the public education system, but because I didn't want his academic well-being to be at the whim of whatever lunatic fringe might eventually wind up winning at the polls. Living next door to Wisconsin only…

Memphis also briefly experimented with AI technology, but it turned out to be obsolete and incompatible with their operating system.

Actually, the more I think about thinking about it, I remember how hard I pounded the drum for Gilmore Girls when it was originally airing, and how everybody in my circle scoffed at me for liking some lame show about pretty New England ladies who talked fast, and then when it started showing up on cable and streaming…

I wouldn't talk that way about Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.

Yes, thank god. That was killing me listening to the episode.

A-damn-men.

One in a million shot, doc!

I don't think I've seen any love here for the How Did This Get Made minisodes, which have evolved into a pretty cool little thing in their own right. Blake Harris's interviews with the folks behind the movies are reliably fascinating. I very much enjoyed the snippet this week from the screenwriter of the Escape From…

Lyle Lovett on a Newsweek article about our perceptions of beauty that presented a photo of Denzel Washington as an example of facial symmetry and Lovett as the opposite: "'I thought, 'My God, this is like having your picture next to the definition of ‘ugly’ in the dictionary!''

True, the vaginal reconstruction surgery plotline would have overpowered the rest of the movie. It really deserves a standalone feature film.

Tell that to Sonny Corleone! (In that totally essential subplot about his "big-boxed" ex-ladyfriend that inexplicably didn't make the transition from book to film.)

The more I think about it, the more I'm pretty sure I'm just being a dick.

Pssh, everything went to hell when he stopped doing his Trace Beaulieu impression.

Around the time the original series started streaming on Netflix, I felt like I noticed a big upswell in "Hey, Gilmore Girls is actually really good!" commentary in my feeds and all over the web. That might just be my knee-jerk reaction when one of my favorite cult things suddenly finds a wider audience, though. I'm…

Last week's live Spontaneanation made me bummed that Paul's taking a break from live episodes for a while. Lately it seems like something about the live environment pushes the performers down a more coherent path, which has produced some of my favorite scenes. Steven Yeun not only had a pretty great intro story, he…

The internet's obsessiveness about all things Gilmore Girls kind of burned me out on what used to be one of my old favorites, but I'll ride hard for Bunheads any day. I'm still inordinately sad not to know what Sasha's up to this year.

This week's Improv4humans with Mary Holland, Jessica McKenna, and Jon Gabrus was pretty close to an archetypal example of why I love the show. I'm a big fan of Matt Besser's experiments with form and inspiration, but this was just a good old-fashioned round of i4h insanity featuring four of the most reliable…