I’m not going to watch more SNL to find out, but I hope Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner play dysfunctional couples regularly - they have a really great dynamic.

Sitting through ads encourages me to stop watching videos, and I dislike them less than managing plugins.

When I clicked the link for “The Chanukah Song,” Natalie Portman’s fragrance ad came up, which was fitting.

On Halloween my son was wearing an all-black costume, and I kept calling him “Invisible Pedestrian.” Nobody got it. 

All together: We’re too big to fail!

He’s eligible for hundreds of millions of dollars in stock options if he can get stock prices high enough. So he has a vested interest in short-term moves to increase the company’s valuation. Although I guess announcing another merger hasn’t done that? 

“If a company has a gigantic content library, they’ll make it all available on streaming at a reasonable price!”

I definitely watched the last half of Captain America Civil War for the exact same reason that someone eats the last half of a bag of mini-Snickers: I was already through the first half, so why stop?

The Ant-Man one is confusing to me - not because I have any interest in the movie, but because of the phrase “adding fuel to the fire of superhero fatigue.” Fire seems like an inapt metaphor for fatigue. How does a person fuel fatigue? How does fatigue burn or illuminate?

Clearly you don't have an MBA because you're applying common sense to a long term prospect, rather than trying to maximize values here and now before you jump ship. 

In the short term these mergers boost the stock prices for both companies, which is what he needs. 

I’m guessing the preview on Google Books is gone now, but as someone who slogged through the prologue and first couple chapters let me say: it’s not even worth the hate-read. Parts of it are just narrative descriptions of the timeline from the LOTR appendices. And the writing style is dull and superficial in the way…

Like, there’s an actual oil painting of Clarence Thomas in chinos smoking a cigar with a billionaire named Harlan Crowe, which might be the funniest thing in American politics in years. 

Given how few people saw the third Ant Man movie or the second season of Loki, they can do what we they want. Ironically, their whole business model creates a situation where the only people who care about Kang are also the ones who get annoyed.

It makes me very sad that we don’t have a caustic, long-running satire of Clarence Thomas anywhere in American culture. There’s a risk that future generations won’t appreciate how ridiculous he is. 

I miss more versatile SNL players like a Chris Farley and Norm MacDonald. 

That’s setting aside the fact that it’s a two person bit, so the humor is also coming from the dynamic between the two actors and how they’re baiting each other along with the audience. They absolutely go for shock value, and the whole thing probably won’t age well. But the bit is two characters literally putting…

My brother dated a woman from Galway for a long time, and while her accent was a bit different, this scene reminded me of her soooooooo much. If she got past “your man,” she’d usually get the famous person’s first or last name wrong. If you teased her about it she’d tell you to fuck right off. It was sublime.

I liked him more as a cannibal:

I’m glad I didn’t click through the slideshow only to find that Cloud Atlas was missing. Seriously, how do you leave out the movie where he plays a literal cannibal?