My grandmother took me to see Jurassic Park when I was 3, because 3 year old boys love dinosaurs, and look at me! I turned out mostly fine.

When I was 8, my dad had me watch the Thing (the Kurt Russel version). Halfway through he said he “heard something in the basement” and went downstairs to check it out. He then lets out an unholy shriek, and CUTS THE POWER TO THE HOUSE.  I went absolutely crazy with fear.  Half of me wants to pull the same pranks my…

Wow, way to deny your daughter’s wish to see Do The Right Thing.

That’s great but I have three school-aged kids and whatever the statistics, they worry about it. Not obsessively, but it’s always there.  I hate that such a thing even has to enter their heads. But the fact that it does means this IS the normal.

I’m being unfair; this isn’t concern trolling. You’ve found a new version of “well, actually” called “well, actuarily...”

I’d say, to simplify it as much as warranted, that what makes it “normal” is that it is something all schoolkids think about and fear. When I was in school way back in the 80's, I wasn’t just afraid of WW3 starting at any moment, I was certain that it would. Statistically it turned out to be a 0% chance but that FEAR…

I took “new normal” to just mean there’s no shock or surprise left hearing about another school shooting. It’s become so normalized. The same way the existence of devastatingly destructive firearms has become normalized, which, I can only theorize, has contributed to preventing the legislation of stricter gun laws.
And…

you don’t get it.

This video and being in a Walmart on a Saturday are two very good reminders of why I never want to bring children into this godforsaken world.

It’s true. He’s popping by every studio executive’s office and asking if anybody wants a peanut.

I guess they’ll have to expand the list of classic blunders. 

I don’t really care what media people make. If I don’t want to see it then I just won’t see it. But this is one movie where you really do have to ask what anyone could possibly hope to add to it. I can’t imagine a single scene being improved.

Cary’s response was perfect.  

Yeah, that was a really weird false choice there. As if, obviously, you couldn’t talk to both a leather daddy and a child psychologist about this. Heck, Dan couldn’t even be bothered to find a single one of those BDSM experts who was actually, well, a daddy, and was willing to address the question from their…

“Mass tragedy today as hundreds of commuters cars in Atlanta suffered catastrophic tire punctures at highway speeds, leading to major pileups with hundreds of casualties and an unknown number of deaths. The cause was identified as thousands of tiny, plastic 4-sided pyramidal objects, strewn across the highway. These…

Came here for a Shadowrun burn, was not disappointed.

Somehow, this still wasn’t enough successes rolled.

Plastic caltrops.

It’s ok people, they’re only D6's.  If they were D4's, we’d have a full on Lego situation on our hands.

This was just a normal Shadowrun session.