Bring back Esthero!

Because sadly America’s youth are drowning in their own ignorance of the cultural greatness of our past? [/jk, kind of not jk]

“Capotage” is oddly only one letter away from “cabotage”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabotage

I think my biggest problem with the performance last night had to do with the music mix that was put together.

Because skaters pick their own music based on what they enjoy and think will make a good program? Even during the Cold War, when their governments exercised a great degree of control over their lives, Soviet and other Communist bloc figure skaters often skated to classical music by composers from western countries.

There’s a separate copyright violation with each new publication of the infringing work, so a new limitations period begins to run for each broadcast of the infringing episode, but you would be limited to suing for infringements that happened within the limitations period before commencing the lawsuit. That said, I’m…

He should have hasseled her about a Ellen* revival.

Except no one describes Israelis as “Asians” when talking about ethnicity. The more relevant point is that the description in the OP is from the sequel book, not the first book, and the writer and director of the movie didn’t have access to the sequel (some sources say the sequel wasn’t published until after the…

I don’t dispute the study’s conclusions, but I think it would be interesting to understand better (a) why this happens, and (b) what accounts for individuals whose tastes crystallize at a different age. If I conformed to the study, my musical tastes should be dominated by music from the mid to late 1980s, but in…

Who the hell remembers the Gin Blossoms?

and Walk the Moon have “Anna Sun.”

I was thinking: The Factory.

my shortlist:

As a huge fan of the original, I’ll be watching this, but I get a knot in my stomach every time I’m reminded that it’s only going to be a half-hour show. That seems like a really bad sign.

But it’s subversive of the trope, see, because she’s a South Asian woman!

I don’t suppose there’s any chance you can get this cross-posted to “The Root” is there?

This clip from Will & Grace may be relevant to your interests....

I’m kind of mindboggled that the studio only became aware this was an issue after the film was released. Nobody in test screenings pointed this out?

Glassed him then.

Gran Torino (2008) was pretty well reviewed, I thought.