‘Three’s Company’ was absolutely my favorite show as a kid. It would come on in endless reruns on our local channel. I don’t think I understood a single thing that was happening on the show. I definitely didn’t get that it was about sex in any way. And I really didn’t get that the Ropers thought Jack was guy. (In…

Oh, dear god. I’m from Philadelphia, AND I had that robot from the clip as a kid. That’s Verbot, the voice controlled robot, made by TOMY. The voice controls never worked. Ah, memories...

Yeah, I studied a lot of medieval history, and in high school, for a project (to get out of writing a paper), I made a medieval meat pie. This is totes how they wrote recipes. It was like, “put dough in a pan, add lard, top it with blah.” That was like the whole recipe. Maybe a medieval person could do it well, but…

The incandescent Rex Chapman!

Upvoted for Oliver Miller, which really also my real name in real life. Really. It is. Sigh. Couldn’t I even have a good center named after me?

Not really trying to get in an argument here, and it is a good book, but Hemingway really does come off as a total asshole in it. He goes out of his way to out Stein as a lesbian in the most degrading way possible. He freaks out over the fact that Fitzgerald is wearing a British military tie one day, despite not being…

Hemingway wasn’t poor. His wife was rich, and supported him, which is why he never has a job in the book. A fact which the book conveniently never mentions. And he’s a total asshole about Fitzgerald in the book, which is not cool, since Fitzgerald was his friend, and spent a ton of effort trying to get Hemingway…

He actually eats fast food—a lot of it—because he’s paranoid and terrified of germs, and he feels that fast food is “clean.” (And I hate that I have this knowledge about Trump stuck in my brain.) He also, according to actual news reports, ends a ton of individually-wrapped Starbursts, because they’re wrapped, and thus…

It’s not that I’m crying about it, I just think it’s such a weird argument to call a hot dog a sandwich. If your friend was coming over to, I don’t know, watch the game on TV or something, and he said, “Hey, I’ll bring some sandwiches,” then you’d be like, “Great!”

Dugan Fife!

Yeah, I live in a foreign country, and I can only really say “hi” in the language (which is “gamarjorba,” for the record.). And I’ve only been here for a few weeks, and it’s my third country in three years, so cut me some slack for only knowing one word. But if I go to the store, or go out, I will always say…

He does it on purpose, so that the tie “hides” his enormous fat belly.

The Sixers were insane on Saturday. I know that complaining about Simmons not taking jump shots is passe at this point, but it’s very out of hand. He lost the game for the Sixers in the third quarter. His stat line was great: 10-15 FG, 14 or so rebounds, 11 or so assists, three steals. ...And NINE turnovers. And only…

Yeah; I mean, we were butt against the Raptors. But we didn’t have Redick and we didn’t have our starting PF. The Sixers collapse into utter incompetence without Redick, because he’s our only three-point shooter. This trade gives us someone else who can stretch the floor, so that’s probably good. (And we let our other…

Who in the world was like, “Let’s make this song over five minutes long”? Did they not feel that they had fully established the theme of “ramming it”?

Public financing would, at maximum, cost you about five dollars in taxes a year. And would solve a ridiculous number of problems with our elections.

As a lifelong Sixers fan, I was in awe that another team would hire Billy King. What was the best case scenario there? Extreme... mediocrity?

Okay, this trade only just occurred to me, but please tell me that I’m not a genius:

Placebo — Bigmouth Strikes Again.

Yeah; I couldn’t agree with this essay more. I can’t stand listening to Trump anymore, but also, I can’t really stand reading well-meaning, hand-wringing think-pieces about him, on Slate or wherever. “Is Trump’s Latest Strategy Working?” “Does Trump Truly Mean What He’s Saying, Or Not?” Etc. We don’t need to devote…