Wasn't everybody a fan of Hyde Pierce already because of The Powers That Be? Or was that show just a favorite in my family?

He is probably the best example of an actor that parodies a certain type and actually IS that type in real life. It's hard for me to understand how someone can play essentially his own flaws for comedic effect so well and so long, without the self awareness that he is parodying himself.

That whole dark matter/energy thing never sat right with me. But although there are some compelling arguments against it that are gaining traction, I think it is still very far from consensus among astrophysicists that the whole concept is moot.

And one of the latest and most promising alternative theories, posits that…

Is Meredith STILL not out of med school? Her mother was right all along.

I said a higher percentage of bad cooks among vegans. Definitely not all vegans are bad cooks. Vegan meals can be great. I'm not even vegetarian but cook vegan regularly. Often without realizing I'm not using any animal products beforehand​. #notallvegans

My theory about this is that it's easier to become vegan for people that care very little about good tasting food. That results in a higher percentage of awful cooks in the vegan population.

When I go to the Asian supermarket, there are dozens of different kinds of soy sauce. But price is not really a big difference between them. If there is a $10 one (or €10 actually), it's just because it's a bigger container.

Okay, are you just trying to goad me? Responding to my rant about the most overrated food with a mention of champagne, the most over rated drink?
Because I can rant about champagne. I can rant about it all day. But I won't give you the satisfaction.

Oh yeah, a good crab cake is great. And crab meat that a good chef has taken out of the shell and prepared can be absolutely delicious. I'm mainly talking about the hassle of eating whole crabs and the way some people make it sound like the best dish ever. Crab meat can be great, but it's not better than, let's say, a…

Okay, when you put it like that, that sounds absolutely lovely. I would gladly join you on that deck and slowly pick away at the crab meat. But I'm still not ordering any whole crabs at any restaurants.
What of course doesn't help is that the only times I had whole crabs, there was nobody with me with any more…

Crab: one of the most overrated foods in the world? Or THE most overrated food in the world?

Finally my status as a lurker-and-occasional-chimer-inner has been recognized! My fifteen minutes start NOW!

How can one lawsuit, compensating one man for pretty gross mistreatment, be more costly than the PR disaster they are facing now? Even if the guy gets rewarded millions, its peanuts compared to what this is costing them at the moment. PR costs to try to fix this, lost revenue from angry potential customers and…

Okay. I'm not sure I buy it. But even if it's sometimes okay, there are a lot of choices that are more than okay.

Maybe​ it's because I haven't read the graphics novel. Or maybe I'm just an unsophisticated boor. But I don't get the hate Watchmen gets. Everything ​this reviewer says she missed in the movie, I saw in it. Maybe the book did it better. Or maybe people are just too attached to it.

Toto che vise due volte
An Italian art house movie in black and white that starts with a man fucking a donkey and gets worse from there. All parts are played by old, ugly Italian men that have never acted before. Including the part of the best prostitute ​of the region, that other ugly men line up for for hours.
It was……

Stargate was for me the worst case of build up and then disappointment during a movie. I was a huge lover of sci-fi and world building at the time (still am, but then more so). So during the first act - you know, before they actually enter the Stargate - I thought this was shaping up to be the best movie ever. In my…

Sex in a tent under the blazing sun in Italy was literally and figuratively one of the hottest moments in my life. I was raining sweat from all over my body, all over her. She still talks about it fondly sometimes.

I just want to congratulate you on the extreme coincidence of you having a pretty rare and specific kink and you're wife having a rare and benign condition that accommodates it. I'm not a religious man, but this seems like the work of a benevolent force.

I had an American, Canadian born teacher teach German at my school in the Netherlands. He looked like Tom Selleck and was pretty great. His Dutch wasn't fluent so we had to help him translate words from Dutch to English that he was trying to teach us in German.