Oxenfree is great. I haven't been able to finish it due to something called "adulthood," but it's a priority when I have free time.

Actually, there are so many hastily assembled internet cliches in those posts (Girls fans are SJW Millennials with helicopter parents!) that I'm wondering if a computer somewhere just passed the Turing Test at our expense.

That's one part, but the other part (which I actually find more offensive) is the idea that a TV show is being remiss for not having its characters discuss the race of a baby. It's the "mixed race babies are the cutest babies" attitude that white people use to sublimate implicit bias.

Well let's see:

The writing contains a solid number of straight-up jokes in each episode, especially starting around Season 3 or 4. Around the same time they started playing up the cringe-inducing aspects of the show in a way that (to me at least) played as comedy rather than drama.

My wife and I burned out after the second season, but when we got HBO Go we tried watching some more. I swear it got funnier and funnier after the third season.

To be fair, that has little to do with skin tone and a lot to do with the fact that sitcom siblings never look a bit like each other or their sitcom parents. Home Improvement springs to mind.

What does "people demanding that the fictional characters on a TV show make a bigger deal out of a baby's race for some reason" have to do with genetics?

To clarify: we got out of Oakland because we would like to own a home and my profession doesn't have that kind of earning power in the Bay Area.

Come on, there's no way that the turn of the 20th century was worse than the Trump administration. Sure there were no antibiotics, labor laws, or civil rights, but at least the government wasn't filled with corrupt, greedy, shiftless people who prized power above everything else. Right?

"Kristen Bell Pontifex." Yeah, it does have a nice ring.

I seriously can't wait. My wife sent me a picture of our toddler completely entranced by the Simpsons, but he mainly just likes the colors.

I also had a pile of tapes with old Simpsons episodes on them. I would usually record the episode, then rewind the tape as soon as the episode ended to watch it again.

When we lived in Oakland, my wife and I met some friends of friends, a very nice couple with a cute baby, who owned a house in our neighborhood. They were about our age and didn't have high-powered tech jobs, so we asked how they bought their house (hoping that there was some secret "trick" to real estate in Oakland…

My wife and I saw it when she was 8 months pregnant (thank God it was the "roadshow" version with an intermission, or she wouldn't have made it). Afterward we got pizza and kind of stared at each other.

I had a coworker who showed me an early promo video for the Google Glass a year or so before it came out, which was basically a video of the world equipped with the HUD from a particularly shitty open-world video game. He thought it looked amazing, but it was really the worst possible combination of nightmarish and…

Yes we do. It's all right, we'll just approach it strategically.

My first thought on reading that headline was that "feminist bona fides" is reductive of femnism (and also a bit antifeminist). There are feminist schools of thought where Tarantino's work, on the whole, would hold up pretty well and schools of thought where it wouldn't. That's on top of the fact that even within a…

I really like Death Proof. It has Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, and a car chase.

I think he also directed a few episodes of Alias. At least I hope I did because he acted in them, and god help the person who hires him just as an actor.