Pretty sure the terminology pro-Smash players use nowadays could make a Scientologist cringe. SO much jargon.

Oh yeah, I mean, that is not a commute I would want to wish on my worst enemy. Fun fact, I had a friend who commuted to Beverly Hills from Sherman Oaks over Coldwater Cyn...on foot. Reading the Wall St Journal the whole way. Not even kidding.

The mentality certainly has been different here in the past, but it is…

Haha, fair enough.

A couple weeks? Congrats on your expert degree in Californiaology.

Nah seriously bro, your idea of what California is and is not is based on the same 90's era textbook that also says Manhattan is a violent hellhole that is to be avoided. Our prices on gasoline are higher than much of the country because we have a…

There has really never been a more exciting time to be living in this city, especially from a cultural and urban planning environment.

You're right. We've more or less been responsible for yours though.

Eh...maybe if you haven't taken it in ten years. The westside is still under-serviced, but you can still access much of it via the bus. In fact, you pretty much only need to transfer once to get most places in the basin. I know a ton of people who regularly or exclusively take the metro and can get to where they're…

I really think it's awesome that you travel with your kids so much, and those are some fantastic tips - especially re: jet lag and having snacks, because that used to kick my ass so hard when I was younger. My parents did the same thing with the cameras too (although it was those little disposable ones), and it was…

They had me at "Hart Noecker". This guy's whole deal is just completely insufferable, right down to his name.

Exactly! Another great example of this is the US version of Shameless. Other than the first season, the shows have completely diverged, and even though the first episode used the same rough script, there was so many differences in the shooting, the music, the setting, the acting, etc. that it was basically a…

So wait a sec, I'm confused. You came to a thread for the Season 5 trailer, not to watch the trailer, but to see if people would post spoilers, and then call them out on it?

Also I'm sorry, but "Arya and Tyrion's adventures in Essos" is not a spoiler. Essos is a big place, and you know that's where they're going. …

I think lyrically the song does fit the trailer - the line is "we could be heroes, just for one day", which is quite fitting. Every one of these characters has been heroic (at least, for their own aims and goals) at times, when they aren't otherwise making horrible, horrible decisions. Besides, the whole goal of a…

He lost me at "toxins".

Also, I've tried his "upgraded" coffee, sans butter. It tastes like shit. Great packaging - would rather drink Folgers.

Congrats dude, u rrr supermanz or something.

I used to get the flu every year. After getting two difference strains of it back to back, I started taking the flu shot, and I haven't had it since. Looks like my anecdote cancels your anecdote!

Holy nostalgia! I totally remember all of those songs from FFL3!

I definitely need to find and play this.

You don't have to grind at all - you probably just have to re-evaluate which jobs you're using to beat him.

Kara, thank you for writing this. I've felt a little weird the last couple of weeks watching my well-meaning friends posting thinkpieces on Facebook and coming up with these "oh my GOD, I TOTALLY recognize my privilege!!!!!" stories to the point where its basically become white guilt masturbation. They are genuine…

LAX pro-tip if you ever get suckered into picking someone up:

1) Make sure you call in that favor either sexually, or by banking a pickup for yourself.
2) Have them meet you at the departures area upstairs. There is so much less traffic up there and it moves fairly quickly.

I went through Terminal C at EWR a couple times last year and that place is the WORST. The food options were miserable, security was slow and did not give a shit, and they couldn't even keep the rows of cracking leather seats in some semblance of orderly rows. The entire place was dirty and poorly lit, and somehow…

I guess you can't technically take a train to LAX, but it's not like we are without transit options. I frequently take the Flyaway bus - used to take the subway downtown and hop on there, but now there's one that leaves every hour a few blocks from my place in Hollywood, and they also leave from Westwood and Van…