A friend of mine has been asking people of all political stripes to use one word to describe Trump. Yesterday he told me that a Republican acquaintance answered, "Honest".
You can't make this shit up.

I just drove through that area on the Tri-State and was amazed at how much shit is there now. But then again, I'm old and still think of Allstate Arena as the Rosemont Horizon.

I live in a tiny town in the middle of BFE, but our local sub shop has all these meats on the menu. You can get a giant sub there for well under $10.

I grew up Catholic and stayed in the church until my mid-thirties, and I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of Catholics I knew did not believe in literal transubstantiation (I certainly never did). You can be a member of a religion and not believe in every tenet of faith. Thus the term, "cafeteria Catholic".

I can still hear the alter boy ring that little bell…

I don't know if I'd call The Last American Virgin a good movie, but it is certainly interesting, and not at all the typical teen sex flick you'd expect from the original advertising or video packaging. As a teen, I remember finding the movie downright depressing when I saw it during its original run. I haven't seen it…

Oh God, thanks a lot for putting that jingle in my head!

You didn't have to mail anything back if you just bought your one or two LP's at the "normal" price, which was about what you'd pay in a record store anyway. You are right about the basic business plan though, which is why it was a boon for fastidious, responsible people like myself (I was a really boring young…

Also, it's NUMBER, goddammit, "…disproportionately large amount NUMBER of random rose petals and awkward games of catch…" Jesus why can't anyone get this right these days?

I just finished this season of House of Cards and GLOW is next on my list!

I also listened to the first episode of the new YMRT series, and was surprised that with all that Jane Sebert was involved in, I had never heard of her. Over the last few months I've been binging on this and a couple other podcasts, and have just about run out of episodes. I need to find a couple of new light,…

As much as I like Amy Poehler, her movie choices so far have been uneven at best. And are Poehler and Nick Kroll still a couple?

Very timely question, as today is the 40th anniversary of the "Glensheen murders" in Duluth, MN. A wealthy woman and her nurse were murdered, an adopted daughter and a male accomplice were tried; she was acquitted, he was found guilty but his conviction later thrown out. He ended up confessing after a deal to serve a…

Oh, absolutely. My experience was just an unintended benefit!

Did anyone else pick up on parallels between the WW/Ares confrontation and Luke/Darth Vader (or maybe Darth Vader/Emperor)? Some of Ares' lines in the big fight scene were giving me deja vu.

I assert that the Sgt. Pepper movie had another purpose, and that was to introduce clueless kids like myself to Beatles' music. I was pretty unfamiliar with their stuff up until that movie came out, and since I really liked the movie (what do you want, I was 10) I followed up by seeking out the originals. I can't…

But it's TAPES and this is the AVCLUB! Get it?

But hey, in some unrelated good news, the Wisconsin appeals court just affirmed that Brendan Dassey's confession was coerced and that he should be released.

I was too, until I saw Donald Glover giving me that come-hither look. Rawr.

No. This is mainly designed as a community toilet in very poor areas. These people, like many around the world, are shitting out in the open or in horribly unsanitary latrines. This could be a huge step forward.