I liked Covenant, I thought Fassbender did a good job as the Kill-all-humans evil robot who is also Doctor Frankenstein but there was a plot point that confused me. Are they on the same planet as Prometheus? We see a flashback where David is on the ship that goes to the Engineer city and kills them all with the…

I still remember watching the second half of Species II with my dad in a hotel room on vacation in Birmingham (?). Since the first Species only selling point was "Sexy lady-alien kills people with sex" it seems like an odd choice to switch to a male lead for the second movie.

"Remember when people were hoping he'd win the primary, because it would be a walkover for Hillary? Good times)."

Neat debate, I personally only think it's wrong to appropriate religious symbols, so an Italian wearing a Native American headress is wrong but that same Italian could wear a pair of moccasins and be fine.

Ehhh, not much pop-culture. Went to my Grandma's for Mother's day, since she retired she devotes herself to a cat rescue group, in particular kitten fostering. So there were about 20 loose kittens, two litters attached to very permissive moms (you could just stick your hand into a pile of kittens with no hissing) and…

Right, here I was always reading his posts in Tom Waits' voice. Now I feel like an idiot.

I only learned about him a few weeks ago, in an AVclub comment. Neat fellow.

There's a section in a Burrough's novel, either Junky or Naked Lunch , where Burroughs first paraphrases a scene from an overwrought, moralistic anti-drug book where the protagonist has to tear a hole in their arm with the needle in order to shoot up, similar to Requiem. Burroughs then tells the reader that this is…

I remember a horror anthology for kids I read when I was about 10 had a story where a kid has a centipede in his room and each night it keep getting longer and longer and the kid can't kill it until one night it splits into thousands of centipedes and kills him. Oh, and the illustrator decided the centipede should be…

My neighborhood went with a Macbeth theme, I lived on James blvd off of Stratford which also crossed an Invenes way and the whole subdivision was Birnam woods.

I only remember that movie because my high school history teacher had a bunch of posters for history-based movies plastered on the classroom wall and the photoshopped Arthur poster was one of them. I may have seen the movie, I don't remember.

Reductress beat you to it.

This is the only movie that ever needed to be made.

I've noticed when browsing for new books from authors I've never heard of that reading the back summary always makes the book sound worse than it actually is.

You just described every movie with a budget over $100 million.

That's what I always think when people saw they worry about a Pence presidency. Pence seems like a guy who can actually read political realities and gauge levels of support; if Pence were president after an impeachment, he would have no mandate, no base of supporters, and he'd have an even tougher job getting stuff…

I read it in a collection of his essays years ago, I think the gist was that TR was a Prussian bully and too militaristic. http://progressingamerica.b…

What'd you think of The President Show ? I hope they ditch the late-night format with the celebrities, I'm a snot-nosed millennial who didn't grow up with Leno or Letterman and always skipped the interviews on The Daily Show, so I don't really see the humor in a movie star awkwardly conversing with a Trump…

What, not the Mencken obituary?

I also read that Euginedes went out of his way to avoid talking to intersex people when writing middlesex . Which kind of nakes sense after reading the book because its 90% Greek immigrant drama.