I was reading about the first Tim Burton 'Batman' the other day. Before Burton was attached, Ivan Reitman was going to be the director, and he wanted… Bill Murray as Batman, and Eddie Murphy as Robin. This is completely true. My brain sort of exploded trying to visualize this movie.

I thought we were getting an asshole hedge-fund guy nicknamed "The Mooch." Seriously.

A score of 72 is actually a C-minus, which is what this review gave it.

Yeah, visiting Atlantic City really takes the glow off of Monopoly. Fun fact: Baltic Avenue is just as shitty in the game as it is in real life.

I use Farecompare. You can find amazingly cheap flights. But the trick is, as discussed to leave from the NYC area. So take a bus to NYC, get on your cheap flight, and go to Eastern Europe, which is beautiful, and cheap as fuck. You can stay in a hostel in Eastern Europe for around eight dollars a night.

Go to Veselka in NYC.

Uh, what? I just try not to check out teenage girls because I'm much older then them and it's creepy to do that. There are plenty of, say, attractive 25-year-olds to stare at. Not leering at teenagers does not mean there are a shortage of good-looking women in the world. I would counter that perhaps you, sir, have…

Yeah, the book could have easily made a great movie without changing it. It wasn't like trying to adapt Shakespeare or Ulysses or something. And the movie sucked. : /

Yeah, I love herring, and it is, as the article says, good for you — but I do blanch about eating it because it makes your breath horrible forever. But I ate it a lot in Eastern Europe where it's a little more socially acceptable to smell like fish.

I was not aware that Finn was British until I watched this video. That is all.

I was unenthused that I could predict the voice-over from just hearing the first few words: "What if we are here…" "For a reason," I thought. "…FOR A REASON." Also, yeah, that slowed-down song.

Aw, I met the principal from Ferris Bueller when I was working in a cafe, and he was so nice in person.* The whole thing gives me the sads.

"Bill S" currently has other people writing summaries of his podcasts (and posts them as articles) because he's too lazy even to do that. I don't know what he does all day. (Maybe discusses deflategate with Ben Affleck for eight hours? I have no idea.)

Yeah, I wrote online for like eight to ten years; by the end, I had completely used up every single funny/interesting thing that had ever happened to me, and couldn't handle writing another thing about the Kardashians ever again, and just gave up and started writing short stories until I got fired. And so it goes.

Yeah, it's all Eagles here in Philly, always, forever (hey, let's spend a decade arguing over whether McNabb has the "smarts" to be a QB — not in a racist way or anything, of course). As the world's only Sixers fan, this adds an extra level of torment to the already terrible fact of being a Sixers fan.

That documentary was goodamn terrifying, and the song was a big reason why.

When you touched that orb, you really opened up some next level Lovecraftian shit, dude.

It seems like really bizarre casting to me, but maybe it'll be good. It's just hard to visualize this in my head, at this point. Oprah seems like a good call, and I like Mindy but that's still a weird casting choice to make her an ancient centaur-angel-thing. Reese I don't get at all.

I've been thinking way too much about Trump and the election, like everyone else in America, and my feeling is that maybe we need a Democratic Trump. Hillary spent her valuable time dithering about whether a $15 minimum wage was too high or geez, gosh, I don't know, and maybe banks are bad but don't ask me, etc.

My wife is from Eastern Europe, and whenever she hears Melania speak, she's like, "What the fuck is wrong with her accent? She sounds like a Nazi." It hugely annoys her that Melania can't speak English better, whereas Trump himself only kind of annoys her. But then, she's used to living under dictators and stuff.