It was especially strange that the kids were learning Italian in between speaking English.

Your comment, while indisputably the pinnacle of human achievement, will sadly never be read by anyone.

I thought Simone really was working on behalf of Wellington, but she realized in the Uber that she was under surveillance (perhaps after looking around in her bag and discovering the bug) so she left the bag in the car and then didn’t talk about it with Wellington just to be safe. Her “I know I said I needed you, but…

a reed canoe (not the navy’s lone boat)

I saw Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. It was good but it didn’t blow me away or anything. It’s like it was adequately excellent: the cast did exactly what they needed to, and the writing was exactly as good as it needed to be. I liked how Frances MacDormand’s character was actually a bad person. The easy but…

It seems his real middle name is Kelby, which is only a little less embarrassing than Kathleen.

I think this is a good step, though not because verification gives the impression that Twitter approves of those who are verified. People who are important enough to be impersonated often take their verified status to mean they’re more important in every other way than regular people, to the point where they use us as…

It took me a while but I finally figured out that “RIYL” means “Recommended If You Like”. Just thought I’d share this life-changing discovery.

I’ve been looking forward to this for like a year. This video makes the film sound reminiscent of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, which also had lots of polite brutality (which is not quite the same thing as police brutality), as well as Michael Palin playing what seems to be a similar character.

I’m sure glad we don’t have to send eggplants through the mail anymore. That was a real hassle.

I didn’t think it looked like it was going to attack, but maybe I misinterpreted.

I’m wondering if Quentin is Jason’s biological father.

I think they keep Frannie around so that Brody and his red hair still have a presence. It’s funny that the credits still say the show is based on Prisoners Of War; Homeland has almost nothing in common with it now, since it was all about the titular prisoners and there was no analogue to Carrie.

I found it unbelievably stupid that they shot the dog. There was no reason to do that, and it was easy to predict what would happen.

It would be hilarious if it turns out that Costa Ronin’s character is not actually Russian.

I think it would work better if Frank isn’t killed but rather imprisoned. It would be jarring if we just heard about him dying without actually seeing it, especially in a show where people are frequently killed onscreen. It would be less jarring if, instead, the characters talked about him being sent to prison.

I’m surprised to hear he’s not out. That never even occurred to me. It’s like he’s been outed as not being out, which would require some sort of interdimensional closet.

She’s the heiress to the Penzey spice fortune and presumably married the heir to the Moog synthesizer fortune.

I kept seeing “Hamilton polka” and thinking of “Ja, ja, ja, do the Harlem polka!”

That’s cool. He’s cool.