Was Robert Pattinson that hungover-looking for the entire Twilight series? Not that I blame him for needing some kind of crutch to be able to spout that awful dialogue.

Weren't the oldest Millennials born in the 1980s? Hardly "teenagers who don't have driver's licenses". Anyway, as a Generation X, I would like to say that we need to stop fighting the Millennials so we can team up with them to take down our common enemy: the Boomers.

1997 was a super shitty year for me on a personal level (just one example, at one point I seriously considered doing phone sex so I could both eat AND pay my rent), and this list is not convincing me that the current pop culture offered any comfort.

Buffalo Bill wasn't a transsexual. The viewer knows this because Hannibal Lecter literally says the serial killer Clarice Starling is looking for isn't a transsexual. (Also in the book he had applied for gender reassignment surgery at Johns Hopkins and been turned down because HE WASN'T A TRANSSEXUAL.) I won't argue…

I talked to my sister who lives in Los Angeles about this yesterday and she told me Angelyne basically lives at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Hollywood. We grew up in the Bay Area and I remembered her billboards from when I was a kid, but was kind of amazed to find out she's still a thing. I always assumed she'd faded…

Honest question: How do you pronounce "Latinx"? Is it "Lah-tinks"? "Latin-X"? I've never heard it spoken and it bugs me every time I read it that I don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced.

“Dump” in Trumpese translates to “Every available surface is not covered in gold leaf and branded with my name”. This is a man who requires his chocolate cake slices to be branded, don’t forget. Buddy, if you hate it so much, feel free to leave at any time.

Technically most of those are pentacles. They're only pentagrams (and thus evil) when they're upside-down. Maybe it's just a Wiccan steakhouse chain?

I thought it was interesting, because instead of just showing clips of Jones bugging out over gay frogs, they made it (mostly) about how he's playing a part to shill overpriced garbage to credulous rubes. That's something that doesn't get talked about enough, because most sane people just get hung up on the fact that…

Family friend who is a Teamster and worked on Criminal Minds for the entirety of Patinkin's tenure on that show. He was a hateful asshole to absolutely everyone, from the network suits down to the guy running the craft services table.

Oh man, the ceiling fan is back. I was kind of shocked to see Sarah Palmer was living in the same house. I don’t think I could stand to stay in the same town after what happened, let alone the same house.

At some point during production they were asked about that and said they absolutely were not going to include it. I mean even if they wanted to, there’s just no way a movie with that scene, even only implied, gets a wide release in the US.

I’m actually about 2/3 of the way through Secondhand Time right now—it’s great but so depressing that I’ve been alternating chapters with other books, something I don’t normally do. I’ll put this on my reading list, but it’s probably going to be a while before I feel up to it.

Do any of their shows last more than 2 seasons?

The process engineer at work addresses every single male employee as "big dog", and I want to punch him in the face every time I hear him do it.

I'm really glad I'm too old to know who any of these "YouTube stars" are. For me YouTube is still just the place where I watch funny cat videos and 2-minute versions of terrible movies.

He's Sandy's (from original Grease) cousin. Pfeiffer's character's name is Stephanie.

Okay, that just inspired me to add this to my Goodreads list.

I watched the 2-minute RiffTrax version, and I'm pretty sure that covered everything you need to know. I mean I don't feel like people are making deep The Room references that are going over my head here.

I’m re-reading Joan Didion’s Where I Was From for probably at least the dozenth time. I love all of her books, especially her non-fiction, but as a born-and-raised Californian who eventually left the state, this book has particular resonance for me. And the prose is really just Peak Didion: the way it’s melancholic,…