Regular conversation in our home:

Really? I had friends who went saying the crowd looked much smaller than last year’s. Can’t find 2018 estimate yet.

Actually, nowadays Bollywood films *do* use a lot of white extras (though your original point is still very true).

According to Rick Steves, Italians are just less aware of diet restrictions than Americans and/or take them less seriously. I have a walnut allergy, and I took one bite of pasta at a lovely small town restaurant and realized the pesto had been made with walnuts, not pine nuts. It took a lot of discussion with the…

I grew up with a rough collie, and he would definitely herd us. You’d be having a conversation in the kitchen with someone 8 ft away—he’d busily do a couple of figure eights around both of you and suddenly you were 4 ft apart.

Love the practical effects in the original. I mean, look at this thing. It’s an actual freakin’ dinosaur.

Definitely. I was so excited to see Pembleton back in the box! I kind of wished for some more overt references, but Holt quickly ceding the interrogation room for actual police business was pretty great.

I’ve been listening to Glynn Washington’s “Heaven’s Gate” podcast, and it’s terrific. I remember when the members committed mass suicide in 1997 and thinking, “Yup—all crazy. Crazy crazy crazy.” Glynn grew up in a cult himself, and his empathy for the cult mentality is really elucidating.

Helpful! Thanks.

Yeah — that put me off Jezebel for a long, long time.

Yeah, I’ve been thinking the same thing. I feel like with these dudes, some of the women who are collaborators (and whom they would never victimize) are living in a pretty heavy state of cognitive dissonance.

Honestly, one of my first thoughts when this story broke was, “Damn — I wonder if/how Pamela Adlon will respond?” She has been a collaborator of his for a long time and is known as a pretty strong, no-BS kind of lady. Sooo . . . yeah. Your point is neither astute nor accurate.

That’s exactly what I was thinking! My husband and I both came home champagne on election day. He refused to drink it afterward, saying it was jinxed. I used it to drink a toast to the Obamas on January 20. But definitely not buying celebratory booze in advance this time around. Stress booze? Sure.

But they’re starting to rebrand Halloween! I’ve been noticing this trend as I shop for QittyKitten (pasting URL because the text isn’t linking, for some reason): http://www.orientaltrading.com/christian-pumpkin-a1-90000+2456-1.fltr?categoryFromSearch=true&tabId=1&rd=christian%20pumpkin

No Gadget? No Becky? No Gossalyn? Those—er—ladies were the reason I loved Disney Afternoon, and I totally would have bought their figures. Boo.

Just like Claudia from the BSC!!!

That’s ridiculous. Honestly. Women are perfectly able to have healthy pregnancies and healthy kids later in life. And the prenatal testing available nowadays means that you get a pretty good sense of potential issues early on. Also, it varies from woman to woman — some 40-year old women could easily conceive and carry…

What?

That whole crowd is primed to be hostile to any member of the press. Have you heard any interviews with Katy Tur (she’s on the book promotion circuit right now)? Journalists covering the Trump campaign rallies needed security.