She's still young enough that the more nuanced conversations on creativity for the sake of creativity are beyond her. But it's certainly the way we plan on approaching it. Right now we just tell her it's awesome and ask her a lot of questions about it.
Do you make music as a hobby at all? I know how passionate you are…

I love that feeling of finding a cultural soul-mate. Something that you discover later in life that resonates as though it were one of the pieces of entertainment that was instrumental in structuring your tastes and identity.
While I can't think of any specifically right now, there's been a few times in my adult life…

Our local video store's copy of that movie was mangled beyond all repair at a certain place in the tape due to the excessive rewinding.

I remember seeing Adventures of Baron Munchhausen in the theater when I was about eleven. During the scene when the King of the Moon grabbed the queen and ran off to the bedroom, As the queen's head helps the Baron escape, she's trilling and giggling, prompting Sally to ask the Baron what they were doing, to which…

I've seen Darkon as well. Also very good, though it depressed the hell out of me.

My kid already talks about how she's not good at art. A good part of that is irrelevant to her actual feelings about her drawings; it's expressing her inherent self-confidence issues I fear she gets directly from her mother and I. But while I'd just as soon not have her follow my path of illustration, I do always want…

A friend loaned me a copy of "Monster Camp", a documentary that follows one LARP community leading up to and through one of their annual events.
And watching it didn't relieve any of my ambivalence about the LARP-ing scene. Because it is good that people who feel otherwise marginalized from most conventional social…

Yeah, I have tattoos, but I'm not especially enamored of the medium. Obviously, there are some really beautiful examples, but overall, I find it to be an art form that deals in spotty ideas expressed on an unforgiving canvas.

No, just a morbid fear of a poorly conceptualized idea expressed in a permanent lousy illustration.

Deservedly so. My decrepitude is an embarrassment to everyone.

I've just begun thinking of updates as making my PS3 a giant Tamagochi. I give it PS+ updates when it pings and it quiets down for a while. Now the system has become a game and I haven't actually had to play a game on the console itself in months.

Schumacher's yelling at people to remember his movies were cartoons in retrospect sound like a plea to step up the quality over the bizarre drag revue by way of Broadway show they delivered.
In principle, it's easy to see the thematic dovetailing of the high-camp of the sixties show and the florid theatricality of a…

Hah! Yeah, to no one's amusement but my own.

I agree things are getting better in regards to diversity, but the slowness, intransigence and occasional steps backward remain frustrating.

Goodness yes. Especially since, as already pointed out, there's so very much else that could be explored.
Playing Star Wars (in the loosest, she's never seen them sense of the word) with my daughter, we've gone ahead and given Princess Leia a lightsaber to fight Vader, since that's who, not surprisingly, she wants to…

The show that, possibly not coincidentally, is being removed from the network with the remaining episodes burned off online.

The previews have been savvy enough that this triggers a lot of warm nostalgia that I seriously thought had long since withered and died from Star Wars over-exposure, but it also appears to be a straight-up re-skinning of Luke's story.
That's cool and all, but this does seem to be butting up awful close to the original…

Sioux Falls! I'll be watching closely to see if they capture the indelible landmarks of that amazing city! Such as… that McDonalds. …And the Ace Hardware next to that McDonalds.
They could film this season in the abandoned parking lot of any crippled strip mall in the country and as long as there's no building taller…

Congrats on the job. Will this fall be your first year? Man, those kids are going to be lucky to have you as a teacher.

Are you moving to a new pad, or a new city? Also, how are you enjoying the 3DS so far? A friend loaned me his and I thinks it's a pretty charming little machine.