I now await a ‘steamed hams’ take on this trailer.

“Halloween : Ham at the Elrod’s” was the working title of this reboot.

Oh ho, look at the guy who bases his claims on photographic evidence! What a throwback!

Kids are always bumping into this huge guy. Kids, watch where you’re going! One of these days “Sorry, mister!” just isn’t going to cut any ice with Michael.

Try the book When Abortion was a Crime.

One of my great aunts died and one was rendered sterile from back alley abortions. But that’s only half of the story—to great aunts were tied to abusive husbands because they were not allowed access to birth control and my great grandmother died a fairly brutal and painful death from complications of having her 14th…

Also, as a native Marylander I have to point out that simply mentioning Old Bay in the header and not in the list itself is not good enough, and therefore you are now my sworn enemy.

“I’ll have what she’s having!”

Egg Creams and Yoo-hoo are so quintessentially New York City. Its one of those regional things that can taste really odd to people who didn’t grow up having them. I used to love going to the Gem Spa in the East Village and getting one in full punk regalia in the early 1980s.

Everybody I know has given me a brownie recipe that’s better than box brownies, I’ve faithfully tried every one, and I’m married to a pastry chef so I can guarantee that we’re not fucking something up here.  They’re never better than a good brownie mix.

I’m the opposite. To me almost any home made choc chip cookie is better than Pillsbury. If I buy a roll of Pillsbury, the plan is to eat it raw.

“Yesss! Mom and Dad are going out, got the house to myself, and there’s an episode of Real Sex on HBO! Here we go!”

This is making me picture a whole series:

You forgot the Puppetry of the Penis episode! Instant classic. 

Oh damn, you guys don’t have Cherry Ripes? They’re the best. A long time back they even made a Cherry Ripe topping you could put on ice cream. It was glorious.

Real Sex was one of the strangest programs ever made. HBO plainly viewed it as porn and treated it as such but it was some of the least arousing shit on TV. Episodes generally consisted of swingers with bad 90s haircuts talking about their feelings and shit and very little of it involved visible sex between attractive…

Mr. Hawke, I think you are a genuinely gifted actor but this kind of talk is exactly what made so many of your movie characters in the ‘90s unbearable.  

Well now I’m even less interested. Emma Watson is no Emma Stone. I was so disappointed, really, when I first read about this project. We don’t need yet another adaptation of this book, and Ladybird was such a well written movie. I kinda wish she had won the Oscar for best screenplay and that Get Out had won best…

I would say NO to Fangirl, too. It just wasn’t what I thought it’d be. I got angry reading it, actually. 

I didn’t get the sense of there being that much of an agenda behind the “Good War” meme. In fact, I think it was meant to distinguish WWII as lacking the fundamental moral ambiguity of most other US conflicts. Such criticisms as there are of US involvement in WWII tend to be focused either on the use of the atomic…