There is no game over in politics. Democrats could threaten to pack the court, pass a federal law protecting abortion access, or just get lucky and be in control when Clarence Thomas kicks the bucket. It’s cold comfort to the people who will suffer in the meantime, but maybe this is what it takes to wake us up from…

I’ve always been a misanthrope, but this past year somehow made me even more so.  I find that I really don’t want to be near people.  I’m lucky that I live with another misanthrope, so we’ll be mostly keeping to ourselves.  I want less interaction with the world, not more.  I think the “hot vax summer” is going to…

Sadly Europe doesn’t seem to be in the mood for another total war to wipe everything out and give America the market we need to end the depression this time. WW1 saved America from the implosion of the Gilded Age, and WW2 saved us from the Great Depression and gave us the fifties and sixties boom. Which continent is…

“there’s a 150 kW station at the Target the next town over that can top me up even faster.”

It’s like saying goodbye to your younger you, or the house you grew up in. Or outgrowing (sort of) your parents, if you and your parents loved each other. As a child of divorce I hated TS2 for the Jesse-abandonment scene, and I voluntarily won’t watch it. 

“What does it mean to be a toy” isn’t really the message, it’s just the premise.

THE CLAW! Of course they would rescue them with THE CLAW! It makes perfect sense, but I didn’t expect it becuase I hadn’t thought about the little green men since they split off from the main group when they first got to the dump. The writers set this up perfectly becuase toys split off from the main group a couple…

Yeah, honestly, when the reviewer was talking about that I immediately thought of the girls in my Freshman dorm and knew, with absolute certainty, if a guy would’ve had a beloved childhood toy cowboy like Woody on his bookshelf, that dude was so getting laid.

I don’t think the Toy Story movies are really about toy nostalgia. The toy stuff is a metaphor for parenting. But unlike most movies about parenting, that are about the trials of raising kids and providing for them, the Toy Story films are laser focused on a relatively untapped part of the parenting experience, the…

There’s a good theory going around that Sid was so changed by his experience that he became a garbage man so he could become the Schindler for toys.

This movie has been on my mind a lot lately. Apologies in advance for therapy session.

Sometime before he turned 2, my son started playing with a stuffed gingerbread man. He’s made by the Ty company that makes Beanie Babies, but he’s a mini version. His name is “Gingy” (I think Sweetsie is the name the company gave…

Oh man, the first paragraph of this review was so me. I was watching in the theater with both my young sons, one sitting on either side of me and gripping one of my arms tight during that scene where the toys are in peril. And even though my rational brain was saying that this was at the end of the day a kids movie…

I distinctly remember muttering “holy shit” to myself in the theater when they clasped hands and decided to just face death together.  Other than possibly the cut to a grieving Carl toward the end of the infamous opening to “Up,” easily the single most arresting moment in all of Pixar.

I was travelling when the film came out so I had a couple of weeks of not having seen in but being told how emotional and heartbreaking the ending was (I think there was even a piece on BBC News about how it was reducing grown men to tears).

She already explained the point. They are for hiding in your significant other’s car because unwanted tracking alerts doesn’t work very well.

yea the ultimate goal of toxic behavior is to drag the other person down with you. writing a letter is sticking your leg into the muck and hoping that the other person is not going to grab it this time. 

I would write a letter to myself telling me to stop blaming myself for all the stupid shit you did as a kid and recognize you were reacting to a shitty abusive family.

That's rough. You can't have a long term adult relationship with someone who won't even talk about money though. 

Well we all learned that you can't even trust family. 

While we’re on the subject of failures, why don’t you eat some avocado toast or something that Millennials supposedly do instead of buying houses and diamonds? Are you really mad that instead of fixing the world up the way you want it to be, we spent our youth getting fucked up and piercing ourselves in strange…