Featuring Peter Rosenberg as the high school nemesis for whom she eventually finds a begrudging respect.

That style's not very mellow.

Has he apologized for commodifying dissent yet?

"I'm not!"

Yeah, that was my understanding as well. He uprooted the lives of not just his family but his crew's family as well. And then Jimmy Fallon ends up doing the Tonight Show in New York.

The mechanisms can get pretty arbitrary, though. We accept that Superman can fly because of the Earth's sun for some reason and various tellings have used various bogus-sounding explanations, but the actual reason is that the authors wanted to tell stories about a super-powered alien. Similarly, I don't know that…

If a person goes missing, there are always countless plausible explanations even if a definitive conclusion is never possible.

Ah, but that would have been

I know as AV Club commentariat we're expected to vilify Jay Leno the talk show host (as opposed to early Jay Leno the comedian, who we're expected to secretly revere), and to me, his show was just the corniest, cringe-inducing hour of television that I would be forced to endure when visiting my parents, but…

I've never realized how much TMBG lyrics could double as Memory Palace scripts. If you listen to that podcast, just try to not imagine Nate DiMeo reading that paragraph.

This is great news for people who don't want to accept that "thug" has become a loaded quasi-racist term, at least in certain uses.

I didn't see the show, but I read the book, and SPOILER ALERT

There are benefits to your wife having a crush on Vincent D'Onofrio.

John Mulaney's bit about that is great. "It’s like yeah, something most definitely did. That’s why the murder police are here…talking about her in the past tense.”

Is anyone else impressed that he managed to get that username? He must have been sitting on it for years, or else approached the former @snowden and made them an offer they couldn't refuse.

Right? Donation has a perfectly fine verb, and doesn't need "gift a" darkening its doorstep. Use of gift as a verb does seem to be more common recently, though. I get that English is a living language and all, but the heart wants what it wants, and my heart wants to be annoyed by that, apparently.

Ok, time to put a bunch of stuff on my list, not watch it in the next two days, and then complain when it expires.

Yeah, yeah, some grown ups want various Harry Potter-related sexy times and that's fine, hilarious, obvious, etc, but can we talk about the phrase "the wand gifted to every guest"? The wand would be given, not gifted. This weirdly trendy use of gifted as a verb drives me nuts, maybe because it's often paired with…

AKA the "air tie"? I always associate that look with David Lynch, which is maybe why it's disconcerting.

Wouldn't they have used a flat earth, then?