Young Adult is so goddamn resonant and if I get the chance to meet Charlize Theron or Diablo Cody, the first thing out of my mouth will be “Thank you for creating a complex character with trichotillomania, and thank you for portraying mental illness accurately. I didn’t like Mavis, but I identified with her.”

That is,…

Hopefully this time around, Netflix will make a kick-ass credit sequence AND actually show it before each episode.

“The St. Louis Dispatch’s one word-preview was “So?”” The newspaper is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, not the Dispatch.

Reminder that a year later, the vandalism of a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis still has no leads, despite the cemetery butting up against a residential area and a major street, and despite the fact that over 100 headstones were knocked over (and took a crane to lift back into place). It feels like local authorities…

“The science debate is over and we won” The citizens of Shishmaref (and plenty of other indigenous coastal communities) would probably like to have a word with these folks.

Because they’re still servicing two people, who may make two different requests, and need twice as much attention because there are twice as many people at the booth than there is actual money being made. Now, if a server were to just pay attention to the one person who did the ordering, I imagine that server would…

Oooh, I love a good wikipedia list.

Also, Mr. Willis of Ohio is definitely one of the best episodes of the West Wing.

I can see where it would be useful for her at shows. All eyes are on her, and if it looks like she’s checked out, or disinterested, or feeling any other human emotion other than On, the sunglasses help keep her poker face. For all they know, she’s really contemplating what’s on the runway. It just seems that although…

I usually tip my local ramen place and my pizza parlor of choice (shoutout to Marcos, attached to the Family Video) $2-$3. Makes me feel a little better in case the people working the counter at the ramen shop are also working the bar, and in the case of the pizza parlor, to do my part in keeping the establishment…

So I’m not condoning Three Billboards, especially since there is lack of payoff in condemning police brutality.

But given Missouri’s history with police brutality, and especially in light of recent events and the on-going St. Louis/Ferguson protests (hey! Did you know local BLM and other organizers and activists have…

Add this to a list of disappointed but not surprised when it comes to Dan Harmon. He’s been shitty to fans before (Community fans, I couldn’t care less about vocal diehard Rick and Morty fans) so he needs to sit with the reckoning that he had the power to, and almost did, ruin a career of an extremely talented writer.…

Someone should tell Mr. Man of the Woods that denim is a one-way ticket to chafe-town.

Also, I think it’s a valid reminder that if people are worried about an adaptation, it’s okay. They have permission not to consume it because it isn’t the definitive form of how that world exists, even though it may become the most well-known.

I was lucky that Jackson’s LotR matched, in may ways, what I had in my…

Apropos advice from Neil Gaiman regarding adaptations you may be uncomfortable with:

It took me a minute to figure out what you were saying. I thought you were going a bit deeper there at first, a commentary on how Shrek has transcended from popularity to ironic staple of iconic animation (millenials love Shrek!) to the point it has become unironically revered and all lower animated films must pay…

Keep in mind though that Chris Evans seemed like a risky move before Captain America was released - he’d already had his brush with Marvel heroes as Johnny Storm in the Fantastic Four franchise and, in my opinion, was not...good. Then again, nothing in those movies were good.

He’s an excellent Captain America though.

We received a couple Christmas gifts from “Santa” - always written with our names on the package in sharpie in now what I recognize as my father’s best handwriting, while the other gifts were from (and labeled accordingly by my mother) my folks. I thought most households had a similar system. In hindsight, I should…

Can we please stop pretending Parker and Stone’s false equivalence of liberal smugness and conservative evils is revolutionary? This particular viewpoint tired itself out in the Bush years.

Can’t help but feel El’s involvement would have had more of an impact if the question “what happened to El?” hadn’t been answered so anticlimactically in the front end of the season. Like, if the season kept flowing sans all the El scenes (but with plenty of fallout from her disappearance and the passing of time since…

I remember the Chick Tracts (RIP Jack Chick, you insane son of a bitch - they were at least interesting reads) that were given out by ultra religious houses in my neighborhood. I was friends with a family that were also ultra-religious and they didn’t trick or treat but sure did have a lot of fun Chick Tracts lying…