The Packers literally cannot be moved to a different city. Their not-for-profit corporate ownership system is intentionally structured to make it impossible. There are over five million shares of the team in circulation, but the amount of stock one person or entity can acquire is limited to 200,000 shares. The…

I loved Friday Night Videos.

Yeah, but the similarity ends there. The South Park plot mostly revolved around the kids trying to win a contest to have dinner with the teacher and convince her that they’re lesbians like she is (since they don’t know what that means) because Chef told them they have no chance with her because she’s a lesbian. Whether…

Everything about Allen Gregory was strange. The lead character is so unlikeable I don’t know why I watched multiple episodes. And the ad campaign leaned into his unlikeability, as if that would draw viewers in! (I suppose it worked, somewhat, because I watched a few eps to find out if the character was as annoying as…

Oh man, does that sound familiar. I grew up in basically the same type of community in the 70s and 80s (when they didn’t call off the first day of deer hunting season, class attendance dropped by about 60%). There were only about 2 other people in school who knew what Dr. Who was, so you can imagine the response to my…

I’d be ok with Axl making appearances IF the writers actually wrote some growth into him. Out of all the characters in the show, he was allowed the smallest amount of growth, probably because it was just too easy for writers to generate conflict by going back to the well of “Axl says or does something extremely…

Interesting, now I feel bad for not checking it out. I’d regularly see brief spots for it while watching other things, and it just seemed like a bunch of people acting as misfit-ey as possible. There was a whole “look! We’re wacky hipster misfits! One of us is always shirtless, isn’t that wacky?” vibe that really…

Aw, thanks!

Came here to mention JW:FK. I can’t not see a movie with dinosaurs chasing people in it, so it was a given I’d see it. I was not expecting it to continually make the dumbest choice it could for each story beat. Bricken’s Spoiler FAQ for it, renaming it Jurassic World: Idiot Buffet, is spot on.

Well, there’s one federal law which mandates paid leave for some employees if they work overtime. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that employees (who aren’t categorized as executives or professionals) get paid 50% more for each hour of overtime they work. Federal and state governmental employees can elect to take…

I found Two and a Half Men interesting (but not funny) because every single character on it bordered on being completely despicable. It was as if the creators watched Seinfeld and thought, “That show was popular even though it’s characters would do some terrible things. Let’s double down on that.”

That show *was* a mess and a half, no doubt about it, but (somewhat sadistically) I wish there’d been a season 2. I would love to know what happens next. Does the guy who played the Master on Doctor Who take up James Frain’s proposal and start protecting the intruders? Does he pretend to accept the proposal so that he…

Yeah, see, I mostly liked it too. But I love movies set in this particular time period in a large city like New York or London. I thought the film did an admirable job presenting the 10 Bells area of the time in a very disturbing, atmospheric way. The 5 victims were for the most part actually fleshed-out characters…

I started listening to it for the same reason--it really helped me fall asleep. For me, 5 minutes of ASMR has the same affect as the prescription sleeping pills I’d been taking. (Unfortunately, without the pills I then wake up 3 hours later... but 5 more minutes of ASMR and I’m usually asleep again.) It’s been a…

Meryl Streep appears in this at the end. Definitely new footage, as (minor spoiler warning) she’s appearing (and singing) as a ghost looking over a major life moment for her daughter.

As much as I dislike Scientology, I’d watch 100 Tom Cruise movies before I’d watch one with Miles Teller in it. To me, Teller’s already got the Most Insufferable Douchebag Leading Man baton firmly ensconced in his giant, douchebaggy ass.

You *are* doing it right.

The only logical way the conversation with the P.R. agency could have happened that would come close to sounding like his description would have to be something like:

I worked at a record store at the Tri-County Mall in Cincinnati in ‘88. I can’t remember what it was called! Maybe it was a Peaches? Tape World? Stupid brain. Anyway, loved Musicland, loved Waldenbooks growing up. 

I can’t upload pictures for some reason, so just imagine I’ve posted the “Why Not Both?” girl here.