That episode is what convinced me to watch Horace and Pete, and I'm very glad for that.

I definitely wouldn't call it "great", but I think given the subject matter it actually hit a fairly good balance. It could have easily gone ultra political (say, American Sniper), or extremely War Is Meaningless And Isn't This So Profound (my guess of Bigelow's treatment), but I kind of like that it stuck to the…

Curious how many commenters actually watched 13 Hours. I thought it was significantly better than Bay's usual output, and Jon Krasinski was well cast as the stoic, guarded badass-but-mostly-just-doing-his-job type. Jack Ryan seems to be a franchise doomed to fail, but if Bay and Krasinski can bring the same sort of…

Yeah, that DFW adaptation gave me a lot of respect for him. And he was actually pretty good in 13 Hours!

As Pete Holmes pointed out in some episode of YMIW that I can't recall, we'll know we're living in a post-racial utopia when you bust out a "Mama mia that's a spicey meatball" and people look at you like you're in blackface.

Yup, he definitely said he wanted her to do his show because she expressed how much she wanted to do TV and saw it as a uniquely exciting medium.

Glad to see The Walk getting some love for its use of 3D. I was skeptical of the film going in (and still have my issues), but those moments on the wire in IMAX 3D were breathtaking. Moved me to tears.

We'll always have Ronald Reagan Renegades

I was fortunate enough to see them in San Francisco the night they made the name change. I think it's a great decision on their part. I liked the prior name for its sheer randomness, but (understandably) not everyone felt that way. And if anything has made AJJ stand apart from the scene it's in, it's its willingness…

It's worth noting that there's a fairly popular (amongst NPR-type people) autobiography series called "My Struggle" (1-6) from the last decade as well. I find it hard to believe either author doesn't notice the name similarity, but it could be an issue of "Oh well, I like this name anyway" as opposed to "Let's allude…

You had me at "shaft-stroking"

[EDIT: Oh no, I didn't realize this was only about calls from parents, rather than loved ones in general. I leave this here only as a symbol of my shame.]

Really excellent essay!

This is one of those moments where I come back to put my foot in my mouth. It's easy to shoot down individual "snubs" but, taken in aggregate, damn hard to dismiss the asymmetry…particularly when people like Bryan Cranston got a nod. I was wrong.

Mulan seems thoroughly unsurprising here; isn't the whole point of the story that she's a woman infiltrating a traditionally male world?

I'm glad the Huck crew is continuing the trend of making everything be about food.

This is an overwhelmingly reasonable response, that at last tries to aim for something closer to the root issue than "Consciously be more diverse in your votes next time." Great job, internet.

Cosby really hit his prime 70 years ago, didn't he?

Spike Lee angrily tweets Spike Jonze's home address

On the one hand, James Franco.