No "holy crap"s, but there is a "laters baby."

It's kind of our thing, to be fair.

We unchain him from the keyboard and let him get some sun occasionally. He's fine.

We didn't know about all this when Sam published the article. I asked him to take it down under the circumstances.

It's well made, which is perhaps the most devious thing about it. And it accomplishes what it sets out to do. It's just that what it sets out to do is quite hatable.

If I had more than an hour to work with, you bet. Those Steinman numbers are epic.

It's a human body. I'll say that much.

The cat does indeed get chopped to fuck, but that's not the shot I was thinking of.

Yay! Sometimes, I purposely leave a joke on the table when writing a Newswire in hopes that you all will pick it up. This was one of those times.

They sure did.

Fair enough!

My bad, correction made

If I had raved about it, you all would have pulled out quotes from that Cannes review as evidence of what shills we are. I still want to see it.

you are missing out, my friend

Speaking of kombini booze, I also miss the hell out of chuhai. They just started selling it at the Mitsuwa here and I about lost my mind when I saw it.

Sometimes, when I see the sad egg salad sandwiches at 7-11, I think about kombini and get kind of wistful.

I just don't appreciate the implication that I'm jumping on some hipster bandwagon when there is literal video evidence of my growing dissatisfaction with this show from a year ago.

Did you watch all of season two? Because I did.

I used to live around the corner from Ronny's. Ronny would sit in the corner cooking beans and rice on a hot plate, while the bartender, whose name I never knew but we called Mrs. Ronny, would charge you different prices for a beer depending on how much she liked you. (She didn't like anyone.) There was always…

I will talk to your HR people and explain it was my fault if you get in trouble. I am not joking. I feel bad about this.