I usually sneak in a bottle of water but I never felt compelled to buy all kinds of crap that I would never touch outside a movie house. With bargain matinees going to see a film in a movie house is a pretty reasonably priced experience (if you don’t have kids.)

Yeah, “Grindhouse” was an amazing experience in the theater.

I had a pal who managed multiplexes and the numbers are startling. Some of those tent pole flicks get almost the entire box office for the first few days. Then again, she pointed to a garbage bag filled with pre-popped popcorn and said they call that the “$100 bag”...because that was their profit margin on the stuff.…

I see plenty of recipes preceded by bloated, meandering text that is either computer generated or slapped together to hit some search engine optimization goal. Likewise, when a YouTube video promises to teach me a Photoshop keyboard shortcut, I could do without the chatty introduction and the 20 second montage. The…

Racism and discrimination are bad. Workers taking over businesses is also bad.

“NOTE: Some designated acceptance facilities do not accept credit cards as a form of payment.”????

“They” as a 600 year old pronoun is a grand stretch. I’m fine with “their”, that sounds right.

My thought exactly. I half expected the tech nerd to call the bridge to mark their exact coordinates (or something.)

I believe where there’s smoke, there’s fire but the level of outrage is not justified by “...exhibited erratic and emotionally volatile behavior.” That’s basically describing every high school gym teacher.

Are we still wondering about the “wardrobe malfunction”? Really? I think a pretty logical consensus was reached ages ago that the entire thing could not have been anything but an orchestrated, old fashioned publicity stunt. The virulent, unexpected backlash sent everyone scurrying in different directions and spewing…

I spend so much time in graphics programs that the mouse always feels like pushing a lead weight when I switch back. The problem is while I can usually tolerate any combination of mouse and computer, tablets and pens are subject to all sorts of variables. Some of it is ergonomics, how the stylus feels in your hand and…

Mike Judge is not great at creating female characters. “Daria” is a good example of meddling executives shoe-horning a completely off-model character into a world just to tone down the very elements that made “Beavis & Butthead” great in the first place.

Judge is about the least “Hollywood” person imaginable. He gives off an awe struck and slightly skeptical vibe of not quite believing how successful he has become. You won’t see him at Hollywood parties because he would rather spend his time surfing with Kelly Slater(!)

Judge’s forte is characters more than plotting. “Tales From the Tour Bus” was such a great vehicle for him to focus on (real) characters who didn’t have to eventually get all warm and fuzzy to carry an entire season of episodes.

Engaging is a consensual relationship that encompasses sadomasochism sort of limits your rights to complain about it afterwards. I get that there are ostensibly “rules” amongst organized S&M “communities” but then you’re talking about cosplay not sadism.

Yeah, not great optics for Fetterman, but anyone (black or white) who has spent time around Braddock would be jittery enough to question being a complete pacifist. Fetterman’s a good guy and the real deal. Even if he apologized, it would make zero difference to the people calling for one.

But what are the other two...?

The Cuisinart knife set does not “ship for free” when I click on the link. Shipping is $10.

The Cuisinart knife set does not “ship for free” when I click on the link. Shipping is $10.

The madness of “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” was at least partially due to being on FIVE nights a week. It could get tedious at times but it usually rewarded viewer’s patience with some batshit Twin Peaks-level craziness. That said, the spin-off “Fernwood 2 Night” (aka “America 2 Night”) was a bit more energetic and…

It’s a sad tale but Britney’s “artisitic” cred is virtually non-existent. She was a mannequin in a machine. I thought the doc was compelling but for all we know, she might be suffering from genuine mental health issues.