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I’m so happy for Olivia Colman. She was excellent in The Favourite, and hilarious in Hot Fuzz (“What makes you think it was MURRDERR?”), and charming in her Oscar acceptance speech, and I wish her all the success in the world.

I’m glad you enjoy them.

I’m an enormous fan of the classic ice cream sandwich, preferably with vanilla ice cream. The vanilla ice cream is a great complement to the chocolate cookie “bread”. I love it so much I don’t even mind the way the cookie gets stuck to your fingers as you eat.

Almost all motor vehicles of any size that have been produced since the mid-1970s have been hideous. Most architects gave up on beauty in 1940 or so, and most car designers gave up on beauty in 1974, give or take.

This is awhile back, but the “music festival”part was very much intended to be a part of the 9th circle of hell comment. There are some nice places in that area- I’m partial to the Mission Inn, but music festivals really bring out the worst aspects of the area, i.e. way too hot and sunny to be outdoors unless you’re…

Just a note on women’s motivations and draw to violence: One of my favorite details of Meet Me In St. Louis, the 1944 film set in 1902, is that the two youngest daughters, especially Tootie, are obsessed with blood and death, and Tootie kills off her dolls and gives them funerals throughout the movie.

My high school was way ahead of the curve on almost never expecting us to read a full novel.

The Great Gatsby, Animal Farm, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” and The Scarlet Letter are the only works anywhere on this list that I was required to read in high school. My high school did not really expect us to do much reading, so a bunch of these I read on my own,…

I haven’t read The Good Soldier yet, but Ford Madox Ford is wonderful, and I highly recommend Parade’s End.

No hate for LAX?  Every time I go there, I think, “I can’t believe celebrities fly out of this cesspool,” but they actually do.  And Uber has made the loading/unloading area even more like Thunderdome.

Tomorrow you should use the excuse that it’s Friday for why you should ride in.  Because: wheeeeeee!!!!!

This is a pretty good trick for reminding myself to do things I genuinely want to do, but sometimes don’t prioritize.  For instance, I try to bike to work 2 or 3 times a week, and when I am tempted to skip it, I think, “Sure, skip it today, and before you know it, it’ll be six months without riding.”  Since I actually…

I honestly don’t even know what his example is supposed to mean: “It’s equivalent to maybe intentionally using a coupon to buy the wrong item.”

It’s not unethical in the slightest.

I’ve never flown Virgin America, but my worst ever customer service experience was with Virgin Atlantic, so I am just here to say that I am glad they died.

“By taking up an unnecessary seat, you’re denying another traveler from taking that spot.”

My parents and all of their friends hated Reagan and thought he was a racist, union-busting piece of shit.  So I was absolutely shocked around 2008 or so when I started hearing Democrats praise him. I don’t understand how a Reagan biographer manages to be shocked by this.

“I don’t care if a robot is black, white, or purple...”

This is a nonsense verdict.  The element of the song that is similar is such a basic pop music building block, and Marcus Gray certainly didn’t invent it in 2008.