Another book I picked up was Roxane Gay’s “Bad Feminist” (2014). I was in the mood for a solid intellectual feminist polemic, or perhaps a wry take on feminist polemics, but got neither. The book is not particularly intellectual, not particularly witty, not particularly insightful or even enjoyable to read. At its…

‘Non-2017' by about a thousand years. I picked up the excellent Penguin translation of the Japanese classic ‘the Tale of Genji’. Called the ‘world’s first novel’ by some, its the cultural antithesis of the barbaric ‘Nieblungenlied’. It reads very ‘modern’ and sophisticated. At 500 pages currently, I’m only half way…

Look at the picture at the top of the article. From a safety standpoint, I don’t think a character known for engaging in a lot of vigorous sex should own a bed headboard with lit candles precariously perched on it. That is a fire hazard!

These space operas have *ruined* NASA. You listen to NASA promoters and they sound like aging Star Trek nerds and Star Wars geeks. No, we will NEVER ‘fly to the stars’ because the stars are too effing far away. 90,000 years to fly to the nearest star - that’s what it would take. A colony on Mars sounds fun until…

‘Dilbert’ has basically devolved into ‘Mallard Fillmore’.

The ‘meat tax’ has already been imposed. Back during the Texas drought several years ago beef prices skyrocketed and they never went back down. I went from always buying beef to sometimes buying beef to never buying beef. The thing about punitive taxes, though. The rich are always immune. Trump can eat as many…

‘The Good Place’ is a great show in theory but there is SO MUCH EXPOSITION! TV is a visual medium. Don’t tell me that you’re unhappy in a scene, SHOW me that you’re unhappy. Act it out, don’t just stand there talking.

I recall not only did I see the feature length film on broadcast network TV 40-ish years ago, I distinctly recall the broadcast even included the scene involving Robert Duvall’s wang. This is the sort of stuff they would allow on TV before the rise of Neo-puritanism in the early ‘80s.

In 2011 a show about an American dystopian hellscape was an escape from the burdens of living through the blooming economic recovery, falling gas prices and the nation’s widely popular black president. In 2017 a show about an American dystopian hellscape isn’t really ‘escapist fare’ anymore. Instead we get new shows…

Actually both... kind’a. There were false stories being printed about Pullman’s death awhile ago. I think they pre-date Paxton’s passing but its hard to check because the stories have been scrubbed from the news sites.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Rachel Bloom seemed to take the Golden Globes snub in stride, posting a thumbs-up bed selfie on instagram and saying now she can go back to sleep. (Hashtag full8hours).

I guess it was too much to hope you’d mention “My Dad Wrote A Porno”, the British podcast involving the mild-mannered host and his two chums reading his sixty-something father’s ‘erotic literature’ to hilarious effect. They’re already read through three of dad’s ‘novellas’. They just released their Christmas podcast…

Heather may be cool but Josh knows magic which makes him cooler. Go back to the introduction of Greg in the premiere. He lists Josh’s ability to do magic tricks as proof of just how cool he is.

Bloom described the scene as R. saying *something* like “Things aren’t comfortable with Greg lately.” H. replying “Yeh, but if you adjust your hips a little its more comfortable”. R. musing “Yeh, its like a palm tree on a windy beach.” Or similar dialog to that.

I wasn’t feelin’ this article until you asked why are they risking their lives saving the dinosaurs if they can just make more if they want ‘em? That line won me over.

I would have liked to have seen ‘Happy Endings’ in the original order it was meant to be viewed. What aired was like a scattered jigsaw puzzle. Imagine if the CW had decided to air episode 5 of CXGF before episode 4 because sweeps week was coming up.

To be fair, if you’ve got a suburban supermarket you’ve got a ‘package store’ nestled right next to it sharing the same parking lot.

Don’t forget ‘We tapped that ass’. When R. used sex as a way to self-medicate her depression it tended to cycle around to intrusive thoughts of self-loathing and regret. When she’s just doing ‘recreational sex’ the narcissist in her comes out. She doesn’t take into account the feelings of her partner. Nathaniel seems…

There’s only so many ‘dealbreaker’ relationship tropes out there to choose from. They couldn’t use the “I’m moving away for work/school and you don’t want to uproot your life” trope. They already used that for Greg.

The blow was softened on the breakup by Hector forcing the pair to NOT separate but to sit and watch Josh play Tom Cruise for awhile. If they had argued bitterly then stormed off in opposite directions it would have been hard to watch.