I've been binge-watching Steins;gate lately, and it's really fantastic. Highly recommended if you like sci-fi and time travel stories. The writing is really smart, it's funny, and the emotional stakes are real.

Describing it as one big parody is really selling it short, in my opinion. It has plenty of depth on its own - I think it would be more accurate to say that it's extremely self-aware and that parts of it are meant to be satirical, but saying it's a parody implies that it's all a "joke" somehow, which I disagree with.

Wow, that's really sad! Thanks for nothing!

My avatar is just a cropped version of the Hyperion book cover, which is also where my user name comes from.

I liked 17 Again well enough, but I've been an Efron apologist for a while.

The "teenage white people problems" sentiment is very frustrating because it assumes that all art needs to be about something serious or violent or very dire. It's also really lazy and an easy way to dismiss something without actually saying anything.

You're the one who's upset, apparently. I just made a throw-away joke and you turned around and called me an asshole who gropes women at parties. So…

Hey, is this the show where lots of characters die? I can't remember because it's definitely not mentioned in every single news item from every website on the planet.

Are you mad? You seem mad.

You must be great at parties

Cawn't? That sounds nothing like a Boston accent.

I can't tell if you're quite being serious or not, but just because you didn't want innocence as a child doesn't make it made up.

Explosions in the Sky still ranks as one of the most impressive live shows I've ever seen. The crowd wanted an encore and the main guitarist came out and calmly explained that they didn't have any material prepared and so he threw out some mini candy bars into the crowd instead. It was charming and hilarious.

It's really cliche, but even though I considered myself a Pollack fan before I saw his art in person, I wasn't prepared for how mesmerizing it is up close.

It's gotta be "King Kunta" for me.

Last year? Try three years ago.

That can't be true, at least not for everything it offers. Unless Hulu owns every single show that crosses over with Netflix and is licensing it to them, which seems unlikely.

I recently did a free month trial of Hulu plus, and I've been impressed with it. It helps that I've been watching a fair amount of anime recently, and they have way more of a selection than Netflix.

Double pedantry! Love it.

I was ready to feel this way too, but the Oscar tweet is just… so dumb and lazy.
As usual, it's easier to be offended at these because they're so shockingly unfunny. Louis CK has said and done things much more offensive than this, but his jokes are at least funny (and it's clear he actually has a brain).