But it should come up on a list on honorees — they should have to own their history. It really bothers me when people/organizations pretend like they didn’t do something that they did. Put an asterisk by his name if you like, but don’t pretend like they didn’t honor him contemporaneously.

I felt like the scene with the birds was one of those scenes that goes on too long, but then keeps going on so much longer that it becomes the right length. It started off about the metaphor and then became about how Lewis can’t innovate once a plan starts going wrong.

I find that with series that are slow-developing, it all comes down to how much I trust the show. I would actually describe Punisher as perfectly-paced...as long as it all pays off in the end. (And I trust that it will.) If it ends up going nowhere, then it wasted my time.

Literally the only thing on the list I wondered about, too.

So...a friend gave me a tape of one of Zappa’s compilation albums, and I ended up using that as my study music for the year I was studying for the CPA exam. (I find that music that breaks standard rhythmic structures works *really well* when I’m working with numbers.) So ever since, whenever I hear Zappa it makes me…

Sherrod Brown, perhaps.

So on the level of Green Lantern, then.

I...can’t disagree. The first half of DD Season 2 was better than the full season of either of them, but the second half was such a mess that it really didn’t all fit together at all. Iron Fist was at least a coherent whole.

She’s also guaranteed that he’ll never forget her. He’ll always have this story.

No excuses. But we need to be open to redemption for people on all sides of the political spectrum.

I don’t disagree with you, but at the same time it is a common mistake for apologies to focus *too much* on the feelings of the person making the apology, at the expense of the person the apology is too. So I’m good with him choosing to err in this direction in his formal apology.

Well, he’s an alcoholic in recovery. He’s done shitty things, and now he’s trying to be a better person. How you grade that is up to you.

Oh, I’m not sure of anything. I’m a transwoman on the spectrum — I gave up trying to put myself in anyone else’s head a long time ago. But there are multiple ways to “other” people, and I don’t know that I observe people switching between those different modes a lot — they seem to be either always handsy or always…

I mean, it’s not the same men. The ones who are too squeamish to touch the breasts of a strange, dying woman are the same ones who would never think of assaulting a woman — and are lousy allies because they have trouble believing that other men would.

Oh, I know. Hence the quotation marks.

I agree. It’s still the best “Mexican” food I’ve been able to find in western Michigan.

Film Crit Hulk reliably has the best take on *everything*.

I didn’t know the exact piece, but I immediately pegged it as Einstein on the Beach.

No thanks. I will continue to believe that most people are good, and be horrified every time an individual does not measure up to that.

I came here specifically looking for one.