Cool beans.

Wait, OU is going to tear down the Ridges? Where are freshmen going to dare each other to sneak over to at night?

Excellent show. Sharply written musical numbers that really get at a core of depression and longing... while still being incredibly funny. Handily my favorite new show this year.

And DEFINITELY do one of their free tours. Our tour guide talked about the meaning behind the ornate decor, and it was an absolutely incredible experience.

When you actually see them, you get invested in picking the one you liked the best rather than the one you know the Academy will eat up the most. I’m AWFUL as Oscar predictions for that exact reason.

I’m artsy-fartsy as they come, and I was not a fan. Iñárritu is technically an immense talent, but he’s rubbish at incorporating that style coherently - his films are all about how impressive his direction is, rather than what the film is actually ABOUT. Which, you know, if you dig super technically impressive…

Ugh, a Leo/AGI/Revenant sweep would be depressing as all hell. It wasn’t BIRDMAN level bad, but it was still bad.

I’ll be honest, I’m waaaaaay cooler with the Full Franco than I am with, say, Half-Franco, a.k.a. The LaBeouf.

I feel like this fundamentally misses the point of the series, at least the way I read it. I don’t think they were arguing that Steven is definitively innocent, but that, guilty OR innocent, he and particularly Brendan Dassey did not receive a fair trial. It was about the way the justice system is broken, particularly…

The West Side Market, Playhouse Square, the Cleveland Orchestra, our museums, the Capitol/Cedar Lee, Cleveland International Film Festival, Mitchell’s, all those amazing Ohio City restaurants and bars, the Valley... I’ve lived in a lot of mid-sized Midwestern cities, and Cleveland is far and away the best of ‘em. It…

Here now, you can’t hold Cincinnati against Ohio. Or Kasich. Or our river burning.

It’s funny, when I made this a few years ago, I was thinking ATONEMENT, but I guess Saoirse Ronan just loves accusing people! Let’s get this girl a hammer, I guess.

Tangerine! Very much worth checking out, and I think it lands on Netflix Instant very soon.

Oh, God, this guy is such a shitstain. He’s the one who criticized TRAINWRECK because he thought Amy Schumer was too dumpy to ever inspire passion in someone, and who e-mailed a director to thank him extensively and graphically for getting an actress to do a nude scene, and then begged the director to send him any…

When you put it like that, the defense actually makes a lot of sense. How many affable rapists have the courts let go free, after all? How much ink has been spilled bemoaning the horrible fates of seemingly-friendly repeated sexual predators?

Can I recommend a book here? CITIZEN 13660, by Mine Okubo. It’s an early precursor to the modern graphic novel originally published in 1946, and in it, Okubo discusses and illustrates what everyday life was like in the internment camps. The thing is, she has such a matter-of-fact, take-what-comes attitude, that it…

Well, he’ll have to change parties if he wants to run on a Christian Bigot ticket - he’s a Democrat, sadly. Turns out ignorance and racism are not party-specific, no matter how much the modern GOP tries to hoard that particular vote.

In my area - the closest city to me is 20 miles away and has fewer than 40k people - I have swiped right maybe... twice? And I’m pretty sure they were both bots.

I’ve seen it more on OKC than Tinder. Tinder, lacking a match algorithm, is 45% Bible verses, 35% the exact same ‘Tinderella’ joke over and fucking over again, 10% ‘mudding’/confederate rights advocates, 8% ‘follow me on KIK/Inst/Snapchat, I’m 6’1” and definitely a real human!’, 1.9% literal unicorns, 0.1% human…

I’m so torn between “Kim Kelly is My Friend,” “Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers,” or “The Little Things.” All three of those would appear in any list I’d make of the best TV episodes of all time.