I’m puzzled that you’re under the impression that professional sports and politics are somehow separate entities in the U.S. and should be covered as such. You do realize it takes political involvement to have a multi-billion dollar professional sports league deemed not for profit? Or that one of the major American…

Agreed. It’s a great piece of storytelling, because a.) it shows that even at a young age, Leia is an experienced, self-possessed fighter and leader who doesn’t fall into the damsel in distress stereotype; b.) Luke is, at this point, still a hayseed farmboy from the Outer Rim who still has no idea what he’s getting…

I hear what you’re saying and I half agree. I think his rep for being surly in all interviews has preceded him so far that in things like this, he’s playing the part of “Surly McDon’tGiveaCrap” to a degree. I think he truly thinks those interviews are inane, but he also knows people enjoy it when he amps up his…

Realize this is a day late, etc., but to your point about TV cuts making a good movie somewhere less than good: I was browsing the movie listings maybe a week ago and saw that AMC was airing The Raid at like 2am one random night this past workweek. I recorded it just to see what the cuts would do to the original.…

Trump supporters are like walkers. As Morgan tells Rick in the first episode of The Walking Dead, “They might not seem like much one at a time, but when they’re in a group all riled up and hungry, man you watch your ass.”

Ray-Ray Armstrong: barks and pounds chest at police dog.

Everyone’s weekly dose of westerns. This week Encore Western has really sought to hit the counter programming sweet spot.

Any troll worth the title would at least read the italicized print at the bottom of the post before mouthing off. And yet, here we are...

Once again touting some quality programming on Encore Western for fans of westerns that don’t suck (I’m looking at you, Paint Your Wagon).

#1: Don’t go to the meeting unless you absolutely have to. Obviously, if this can’t be helped, proceed to #2.

Two stories from my days at boarding school. The first was a school legend or story. So, my school is located a few miles from Antietam Battlefield in MD. Close enough that they’ve found 6-pound cannonballs and musket balls on campus and the windows of the dorms shook when they held anniversary reenactments of the…

Holy hell, this sounds like a channel that would be a wonderful replacement for a full time job. Going to go see if Comcast carries this channel right now.

Worth mentioning that Encore Westerns has Red River starting at 5:30pm (eastern) followed by High Plains Drifter at 8pm. For my money, Red River beats the shit out of High Plains Drifter, but they’re both superior to the NFL and the dogshit pre-game shows on NBC.

Agreed. We flew to Mexico for vacation this summer and our flight connected through Atlanta SUPER early in the morning. So, we actually checked in for our flight from ATL to Mexico more than a day in advance (24 hours from our early AM departure to Atlanta) and had seat numbers way before most people on that flight.…

JFC, nothing says, “I’m a whiny bitch of a loser” like moaning about how the other guy showed you up after he crushed your shitty pitch that tailed from the middle of the plate into the hitter’s power zone down and in.

2012 NLDS Game 4 Cardinals vs. Nationals. I bought two tickets to that game the day they all went on sale as a gamble that there’d be a game 4 and I might see the Nationals win the series. Turns out they had to win Game 4 just to stay alive. It was the first MLB playoff game I’d been to, having never become more than…

1) Yes and no. I’d stop looking for new recruits. But I’d still send Darryl and Aaron, etc. out for recon. Systematic patrols would have found the quarry (it’s a quarry the walkers have congregated in) well before the situation got dire. Plus you know The Wolves are out there. Darryl, Aaron and Morgan all know.

I’ve taken my lunch to work the majority of the time since I started working, even when I was a dumb college kid working summers at a local factory before grad school. Could of reasons:

This was always the silver lining of 12 Monkeys for me. Virus kills 90% of humanity (boo!), drives the rest underground for generations (oh no! booo!). Meanwhile, the big wheel in the sky keeps on turning and the Earth enjoys a break from us for the foreseeable future (yay!).

WWE will only occasionally use the term “wrestling” or “wrestler” these days. They will almost always use “sports entertainer” or “sports entertainment”. It’s mostly fans who use the term wrestling. Or, also, pro wrestling. The “pro” is simply to differentiate it from amateur wrestling, which is what you see in the…