I have a blood condition where I build up excess iron.  The treatment?  Donate blood every three months.  When my doctor told me this I thought he was joking.

Wikipedia says the NY-Chicago train took 20 hours in 1902

Ah, I know him as the historically inaccurately young and handsome version of Lord Melbourne from the Victoria series. 

I was sold on Hurricane Season until I got to:

My go to answer was always teleportation. Travel’s a pain in the ass, and that way there’s no delay or anything in the way (like might be the case with flight)

Of course they had to make a female the focus rather than the invisible man. I have no interest in seeing yet another film that wants to make me feel ashamed for being a straight invisible man. 

as a fan of Inspector Morse, Lewis and Endeavour I joke about Oxford being the murder capital of the world, so it’s gratifying to know that the shows got it exactly right.

Morse would have pointed out that the college pictured, All Souls, was not founded until 1438.

They even spoke in Olde-English spelling back then

They should have assigned Inspector Morse to the case. He has an excellent clearance rate 

Donald Trump isn’t a fan of Neil Young. Donald Trump isn’t actually a fan of anyone or anything. Donald Trump just claims to be a fan of stuff that he thinks will make people like him more. I truly don’t think he has the attention span to sit through, let alone listen to, a 4-minute rock song.  

“Apparently HBO was not scared off by the vague title and the existence of a significant role for Josh Gad, because the premium cable network has renewed Armando Iannucci’s space comedy Avenue 5 for another season.”

Are you telling me that Games Radar, a video-game centric website, just like Kotaku, a video-game centric website, gave a more favourable review to a video-game movie than a movie-centric website that reviews a much wider range of movies? Well that’s just crazy talk!

Can we stop referring to all small mammals as rodents? Hedgehogs are not rodents.

I think the AV Club’s stable of critics are generally less willing to review genre films entirely on their own terms than some other mainstream publications. Which, if you’re unable or unwilling to turn off your brain and overlook the kind of earnest schlock that better films have moved on from decades ago, is pretty…

The only person he has to blame here is himself (and his agent).

I realize Terrence Malick is a divisive filmmaker, but “A Hidden Life” is my pick for the best movie of 2019. I understand people are frustrated with him after “Knight of Cups” and “Song to Song,” but I really don’t know how anyone can walk out of this particular film and not find it anything short of astonishing. It…

Terrence Malick was robbed.  Robbed, I tells ya!

Agreed. It really felt like they really understood that character, and in fact all of the characters, really well. That conflict of the biggest issues with self esteem and getting healthy just felt real, but not so much so that it was hard to watch