All that 80s infinitemultiworlduniverse stuff was dreamed up to boost comic book sales - forcing readers to buy multiple titles to follow a story. It really killed the creativity across the board by severely limiting what creators could do. Book sales did increase but (imho) most of it was a dreary, unreadable mess.…

“Lost” sounded like a horrible place to work but most of the stuff in the Vanity
Fair piece sounds like nasty business as usual for Hollywood.
(And some pretty funny exchanges for 2014)
A woman walks into the writer’s room carrying a binder.
A writer asked her what she was carrying.
She replied “It’s a manual for the…

You have to be running through life pretty scared if you provide a non-dairy version of this recipe.

It was a lot of fun but I can’t see much appeal for non-fans. The original “Machine” story is a great piece of comedy.

Doing the deeds may incur minimal costs but “customer acquisition” is not easy.

A strangely absent caveat considering the subject: “E-cigarettes and vaporizers are prohibited in checked baggage.” (via faa.gov)

...and don’t forget to yell like Tarzan.

There are other lens to view things in besides Marxism.

Hospital cafeterias were my go-to option for years. Things are a bit more restricted these days but in smaller cities you can usually sneak by without a lot of fuss. Some are just OK but some are really great...and cheap!

I think boxed mac ‘n cheese is highly over rated. I’ll take the Knorr pasta envelopes over mac ‘n cheese any day.

British gun laws are pretty severe across the board. I’m sure real guns are rare on movie sets there. But there are incredibly detailed replica firearms that look and feel like the real thing. They are impossible to use as weapons but can fire blanks with flashes, smoke and ejecting cartridges. They can be expensive…

I’m not here to debate anyone but there is some seriously problematic advice in the first aid article.

“Ocean’s Eleven” is not streaming on HboMax.

Yeah, that and “Fantastic Voyage” are really worth seeing. It’s kind of a slight to call her a “model” in the headline. Nobody really thought of her (or Marylin Monroe) as models.

A trailer with Nick Lowe? I’m ALL IN!

I had no clue Markle was black.

It was painfully obvious that the show took a pretty severe budget hit by season two.

You would think? But there is a long gestating Michael Jackson innocence project that occasionally pops up.