Cults of personality are always silly, but in this case, that cult helped bring in lots of women into reading comics, which in turn has led to new voices and new stories.

But his work is good and getting better. The Graveyard Book won the Newbery Medal, Hugo Award, Locus Award and Carnegie Medal.

Discounting the work…

No, thanks. I already bought Return of Bruno. I think we’re all only obligated to purchase one of these things.

Both the blood orange and feisty cherry have some sort of pepperiness to them. It’s not bad, just a little odd. I love spiciness generally, but I’ve never wanted that added to cherry soda.

Great shows that aren’t available to stream anywhere tend to have music rights issues. (See: Ed, Northern Exposure.)

I know it’s unlikely, but I’m still holding out for Trish to become some reasonable facsimile of Hellcat.

You should. The first season of the Good Fight was fantastic. Much less soap opera, much more focused on the law and a real focus on people other than rich white politicians — the characters actually land at a (previously) all-black law firm, which opens up what cases they take and what issues are talked about.

My grandmother went back to college in her 80s.

She dropped out of high school, after being an A student, to help the family bring in money during the tail-end of the Great Depression, and got her diploma while her kids were in high school and not especially motivated about it. (It becomes harder to slack off when Mom…

If you discount whole institutions because some members of them back bad calls, even catastrophically bad calls, what institutions are left for you?

This is not a good look for the Review-Journal — who are voluntarily taking their lumps for this — but a daily newspaper does a ton to keep local government officials in…

This show is astonishingly well written. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a show with writing as confident as this.

In a world where shows will have the same status quo for 11 full-sized seasons, The Good Place has had two totally different status quos in two half-seasons and has set up a totally new one for next…

You’re going to find very few families of five that don’t have a second income, which pops you right back out of that range.

There are 18 cities in California with a more than 200,000 population. Don’t say “near any urban center” when you actually mean “I want to live a Silicon Valley lifestyle.”

Yes, $160k doesn’t go far in the Bay Area. But that’s more about the Bay Area than it is the rest of the state.

The theoretical In-N-Out manager…

Not every community is a middle class community. I cannot live in Malibu or Beverly Hills, and I am solidly middle class. I could live like a king in Bakersfield or Merced. Or I can live a perfectly fine lifestyle in the many suburban cities and communities in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino or Riverside Counties.…

“A possible war between Germany and Russia fueling more tensions between crew members Schmidt (Daniel Brühl) and Volkov (Aksel Hennie). But this turns out to be just the first of many potential conflicts discarded by the film.”

Did you go to the bathroom and not pause the movie? Because there’s a definite dramatic…

Are you defining “any urban center” as San Jose, San Francisco and the west side of Los Angeles? Because California is a large, diverse state, and $160k would put you in the upper echelon in nearly every county in California (a state I live in, incidentally).

That’s not what I was objecting to.

$160k is comfortable at worst everywhere in California. You might still envy your more affluent neighbors, but no, it’s not middle class.

You may need to unclench a bit.

Make no mistake: Cheese fries are delicious and praiseworthy.

That Albert Brooks’ character thinks that date rape is “just dating?”

That anyone who’s worked in broadcasting for 30 seconds knows that cutaways are shot after the fact in a one-camera shoot?

I’m going to be the contrarian and say this can work. CGI is now super accessible even for down-budget films and in this case, cheesy CGI would work for it.

There are already Black List treatments that parody ‘80s action films. Grab one of those screenwriters, put them on this, tell them to just have a blast, but to…