The litmus test for enjoying Cline’s books is pretty simple: Do you love the ‘80s, unambiguously and unconditionally, in much the same way that a born-again evangelical loves Jesus? Because that’s all there is to his schtick. The characters are all the same (wisecracking, pop culture savvy, wiser-than-his-years white…

According to Fangraphs, he was the ninth best SS in baseball by WAR in 2010. Every guy ahead of him was younger and payed less.

Praising years of mediocrity is like praising mayo for always being in the fridge whenever you need to mitigate the dryness of a sandwich.

“What they are calling the RQ-X/UQ-2 will be optionally manned...” as long as you have pilots in all the power positions at these traditional slow-to-embrace progress aerospace institutions, you will still have planes designed around the man and not vice versa. The only advantage I can see to having a new…

Lions push people over in their chairs? Well ya learn something new every day.

2000x even!

I think her horror-movie edition makes it way harder to feel sympathy with this extremely sad character. While played as a villain, she is deadly by nature, not by choice. She just wants friends and warmth, something she will never get.

Yeah, agree with this 100 percent. Nobody would have held it against Trank if he’d walked away from this film during pre-production. Any more than we judge Edgar Wright, or Guillermo del Toro for dropping out of The Hobbit. Or the countless other directors who have left films due to “creative differences.” It’s a…

Marvel/Fox/WB are too big. They are going to make the films they want to make.

Yes because, DOOM!

but not the version in the original stories.

Whatever version of these books I read as a child (1980s Canada) this thing was called the Groke.

“Do you want a plagiarism lawsuit? Because this is how you get plagiarism lawsuits!

RUIGHT?!