I’m as unimpressed by Silicon Valley jargon (especially “disruption”) as I am by any sort of jargon, but the fact is, MoviePass has been too good to be true until the last few weeks. I’ve had it almost a year, and in that time I’ve paid an average of just over $3 for every ticket to every movie I’ve seen.

I’ve used the hell out of MoviePass, but now that its “surge pricing” seems to include every screening of every movie every day for at least two weeks after its release, I’m thinking it’s probably worth a couple more bucks a month to be able to buy tickets online, buy before the day of, re-watch movies, and be able to…

I wore out the tape of Land Before Time when I was little. I tried to watch it again as an adult... couldn’t make it through. It’s so damn depressing. It’s like they took the ending of “Jurassic Bark” and made a whole damn movie out of it. 

I went to see Emo Philips last night. I didn’t see the Weird Al tour, but it must have done Emo some good because the club was sold out (compared to the last time he was in town, when the same venue wasn’teven at half capacity).

Long after the name “Kennedy” is lost to history, one name will still survive over them all: BULLWINKLE

Counterpoint:

If anyone has earned the benefit of the doubt, it’s Matt Groening, and I should probably withhold judgment.

Definitely. Although I was surprised at how involved Groening actually was on Futurama. Based on nothing, really, I just assumed that his creator/producer role was to do character design and perform midwife duties to bring it to air. (Probably just projecting what I would do if I had Simpsons money.)

This is like Roseanne doing needle drugs during a job interview, getting hired, then getting fired for failing a drug test.

It turns out, that was the comprimise they reached from the beginning. I thought it was later too, but I just started re-watching on Hulu, and it was that way from the first episode.

God, that’s tricky, and it brings up a question I’ve asked myself relating to weather—would I rather die in the summer, when things are pretty and the weather is nice and I might enjoy my final hours a little bit, and regret not getting to see the next beautiful day? Or in winter, which I generally hate, and dying…

It’s not like taking a pebble out of your shoe, where the problem is gone and everything goes back to normal.

This is the strangest troll job I’ve seen in a while. I’ll award you points for originality, but I have to deduct for execution. 

Maybe I’m mis-remembering things, but I would have sworn I saw at least one story here in the last six months that wasn’t about T.J. Miller.

T.J. Miller is one of those people that I just instantly disliked. Never made it through any of his standup, always hated when he popped up in stuff that I liked, and his episode of the “You Made it Weird” podcast cemented my dislike for the guy.

Engineers are also good at working within a closed system—if the working premise is “Trump is good,” they’ll be better than most at manipulating information to make that conclusion work. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that proponents of the wildest conspiracy theories imaginable count fully capable engineers among…

I don’t know that it’s “important,” but I also don’t know why you’re so hung up on this. He was a good interview subject, extremely well-read, knowledgable on a wide range of subjects, ridiculously quotable, and most of the interview took place in “bonus time,” beyond what had been scheduled.

It’s a pop culture website, not fucking Foreign Policy.

They just got M*A*S*H