Regarding the denomination of Unitarian Universalism: there are some UUs who consider themselves Christian. The church’s principles allow for a good bit of diversity of belief, at least in theory.

Of the three companions, she seems like the least developed overall. It’s not the actor’s fault. I rather wish there was just the Graham-Ryan companion plotline.

I’d like to see this if you have a link. (I’m not doubting it; I just enjoy schadenfreude once in a while.)

And you end up internalizing it as well—or that’s what a close male friend who’s overweight does. I feel for you. (And my friend, in turn, does seem to understand more about the perniciousness of the “male gaze” on women than a lot of dudes do.)

I see you, and I hear you. And I’ve been that person doing background as well. I miss applying for jobs because they want all my measurements and I’m thinking, “I’m background--it’s not like you’re really going to try to create a wardrobe for me.” (In fairness, the wardrobe people I’ve worked with have been great.)

Thank you!

Is it still on Wednesday?

This made me cry.

What do you do about friends/family who request gift cards? I always feel like I’m being gamed somehow: “Let’s see what monetary value they place on their love.”

I read a great piece somewhere, the other day, about what a crime it is that Gardner and Redd are being squandered. If they got down to no more than 8 cast members and they were two of them, I’d probably be happy.

They were doing a much better job then of using the cast on hand. I’m pretty mad about Sasheer and now Ego being squandered. (I know nothing about Ego’s talent, but Sasheer—as evidenced not just by SNL but by her appearances elsewhere--was wonderful.)

I’m getting tired of sketches that might have worked really well if they were written a little better or acted a lot better. (Maybe this really has been a problem for generations of SNL, but I don’t remember it from, say, 15 years ago.) The timing in this one seemed off. I laughed a good bit, though.

She won the mock presidential election held by my sixth-grade class in 1972.

Excelsior. (The hotel, I mean.  No Stan Lee content.)

I thought AVClub had a shortage and that’s why they had to take the comma out of “Great Job, Internet!”

DC here, too. I was on a Metrobus about a million years ago, and there was this slightly younger dude practically doing standup on the bus. And he was actually funny! Later, I read how he used to do that sort of thing.

A friend used to date Bill Nye. When she got married, he came to the wedding and reception. I danced with him. OK, truthfully, I danced at him. (This was years before he was on “Dancing With the Stars,” and he was pretty good and certainly enthusiastic. His go-to seemed to be a sort of Charleston.)

Similarly, I danced…

I used to frequent a shabby UWS hotel (now refurbished and out of my price range) on trips to NYC. On one occasion, Moranis came in with his small child and was chatting with the folks at the front desk. (I think the kid was sitting on the desk.) He had a good vibe.

(Not my best celeb encounter, but relevant to Daddy…

I’m one, too. It’s a mixed blessing. The only unqualifiedly bad thing was people outside the family talking about how no one should be an only child, that only children are spoiled and dysfunctional and selfish (I mean, in my case they weren’t half wrong, but...). It was horribly unfair to all of us, especially to my…

I figured he went by his middle name and his first was J.