More broadly, Philadelphia is a very 90s movie, and overbearing scores in character-driven dramas about Important Topics were running rampant then - The American President, Dead Man Walking, Rudy, Dave, Sleepers, Forrest Gump … I'm sure there are others. I remember half-loving Good Will Hunting for just not beating me…

How many of the old World War II movies have you watched? Care to grade them for seaworthiness? I'm curious because while those movies were made on Hollywood sets with a much higher layer of artifice than today's movies, they were made with the assistance of the Navy, with actors and directors and producers who had…

One of the few movies I remember making me cry (at the sheer relentless frustrating futility of the situation.) Fantastic film.

If like me you consider most paranormal phenonema to just be pareidolia, then it is perfectly rational to pull up the covers, since your brain is psychologically incapable of discounting significant stimuli no matter the origin. It doesn't matter if you believe or not, your lizard brain has been evolved to react first…

Bill Nye's not in the pre-show; he is the narrator of all the exhibits in the "Dino Institute" (ie the line before the pre-show.) Grant Seeker is played by Wallace Langham of Larry Sanders/CSI fame.

By decade:

White Stripes debuted in 99, I tried to be explicit about "21st century".

Wait, Don's dating a divorced waitress with looks way above her pay grade, with a daughter who died of the flu, and another older daughter? Does he not know how Mildred Pierce ends?

Let's be clear: if The Cure, The Smiths and Depeche Mode are "English freaks" with no chance of admittance, where do you think LCD Soundsystem and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs fall?

White Stripes are 99, they are locks.

The only actual "rock" (loosely defined) artists of the 21st century that currently have any chance of getting into the Hall of Fame:

Considering the Hall's rules of eligibility, I'm okay with not letting 24 year olds vote on acts that started before they were born.

Speaking of the Hall, almost all of the "we made it in the 80s" bands:

Hey, Zachary Levi killed it in Tangled.

Last year I was driving to work my 14 year old beat-to-hell Mustang around and got pulled over on May 2 because I had an April registration. Cop was all business, even perhaps a little more snippy than usual (like none of that even vaguely casual "Did you know your registration expired, sir?" business). I apologized…

Except many people are asking for Noah to be fired. So people are conflating the two questions:

"Outrage" over four year old tweets is lame.

"We have a swear jar at home and y'know what a swear jar is? It's a jar in the middle of the kitchen and every time you say a bad word you have to put in a buck. … We were coming home one night and we had a really good month of no swearing and my wife said that the whole family been really good. So for the next five…

The show's title now looms as an ominous spoiler …

I hate Let's Play but I love watching people play SotC for the first time. It is epic, every single time.