I get suckered into watching it whenever I remember how much I like the score by Wendy Carlos.
I get suckered into watching it whenever I remember how much I like the score by Wendy Carlos.
This is my favorite James Bond movie, which probably says a lot about my relationship with the James Bond franchise
Everyone thinks they like Tron, but nobody really likes Tron. Ditto for The Neverending Story, which is less fantastic and more boring than you remember, and the horse dies earlier than you think.
This is a good take. I love Young Frankenstein, but you really do have to know what it’s satirizing in order to appreciate it. Like other acquired tastes, an appreciation of classic films isn't worth everybody's time.
I’ve had this. It falls into that uncanny valley of "deeply unsatisfying but I'll eat it at a potluck."
That 1867 recipe is suspiciously close to what my family has always called ambrosia salad, and this is the first time I’ve seen it referred to as ambrosia by anyone else. I mentioned it in the comments once, and one of Lifehacker’s food writers (likely Claire, possibly someone else) said “that sounds acceptable but…
I’ve always had a hard time getting into giallo, but I've seen and enjoyed a couple of these, so I'm gonna check out the rest, thanks!
They must have changed their policies. I received a membership offer along with the military recruitment pamphlets I was receiving as soon as I turned 18, and they rejected my application on the grounds that I was under 55. I didn't get my check back, either.
NyQuil. This took me forever to figure out because I probably use it less than once a year, but store brand and NyQuil is like taking half a dose. No idea why; the active ingredients are dispensed in the same amount, yet the store brand is garbage.
Why are Cheerios so hard to replicate? The generic version of almost everything else is acceptable, but the only faux Cheerios I’ve had that approach the original are the ones from Trader Joe’s.
(Over) exaggerate: An exaggeration is a more extreme or dramatic representation of something. The “over” is redundant.
I got kicked out of the multiplex (Marcus, I think?) once because somebody told am usher that is snuck in a 6-inch sub. The agreement that my ticket would be invalidated by outside food was in fine print on the back of the ticket, along with consent to search my pockets and bag (which they didn’t try to do).
I took a mandatory typing credit during my last quarter of HS in 1998, and they made us double space after a period (which uh, I was already doing). I get self-conscious about this occasionally, and have asked professional editors about it. The answer is always “who tf cares? Search and replace works just fine."
I came here to be pedantic about this exact thing. Even the simplest text adventures are more complex than most early video games, both from a programming standpoint and in terms of gameplay.
I mean fine, yes, okay, but all I really want is for Scott Bakula to star as himself in a vampire movie called Count Bakula.
This is a good take, and now I know what I'm making for breakfast tomorrow.
Jeez. I have this really bad habit of swiping my tweets and Kinja comments out on my phone, and then not noticing typos.
Bush said a lot of the Right Things in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 (“the Islam I know is a religion of peace”, “this attack was carrots out by extremists who do not represent mainstream Islam“, etc.). There was a brief glimmer of a constructive path ahead but I don’t think anyone eat surprised when he didn’t take…
Well, y’know, a boycott can a powerful thing...
We'll call this one Yuggoth, right? Right?