I think we’re going to get an arc for Joyce in Season 4 that includes A) leaning into Stephen King Country heavily, followed by B) yeah, the trauma is inside and the family wants to be back with people who understand and support them, in Hawkins.

I know a single mother who put her son’s urn inside his favorite stuffed animal. (He had a lot of medical problems and died at 7.) The stuffed animal now travels with her everywhere. Layers upon layers of tragedy and sorrow.

Having read a Tim Dorsey novel, this critique seems very believable.

Cheaper than calling Charlie and making dinner reservations.

And Father’s Day? I think we can all agree it was the right decision to rename it, “Rewatch Lord Of The Rings for the Xth Time In An Attempt To Escape Generational Trauma Day.”

I’m wondering when the cultural conversation is going to get around to Lewis Carroll. Granted, we have plenty of contemporary problematic folks keeping us busy, but Lewis Carroll is worth a conversation.

They just need to say the words “we should unionize” whenever having any unapproved emotions in the workplace, and the labor board will also become very interested.

Best store-bought salsa would be service journalism that I would appreciate. I find almost all of it to be a crushing disappointment and end up endlessly buying the same refrigerated salsa from the deli aisle, which is great, but which has gotten very boring as a result.

No, mayo is just slime spread on bread. It has its uses, but it’s mostly just an egg-based lubricant.

You can have good associations with it, but it’s not necessarily snobbishness for people who don’t.

Most “uninhabited land” identified as such by urban and suburban dwellers isn’t, from the point of view of folks who live in rural America. Bodies in the desert get found. A lot. Even the ones dropped down disused mine shafts.

I’m not in an industry that features “summer Fridays,” which are apparently taking paid time off on Fridays during the slow summer months without dipping into existing vacation time.

That sounds amazing.

This article was not as helpful as I was hoping, Elizabeth.

Any chance of a follow-up that delivers on the premise of the headline?

Say, in the next five minutes? Because I think I just heard sirens.

And, ironically, the second season ended up with him grappling with the behavior of a powerful male celebrity. It’ll be interesting if a theoretical third season of the show ever touches on that plot line again.

The Adam Sandler renaissance certainly suggests there’s a Netflix computer somewhere ignoring stated public opinion in favor of what people are actually watching.

Related note: People are actually monsters.

I was replying to Sam.

And I’m not saying “all right boys, take off your pants, do whatever you like.” I’m saying for decisions like the one Netflix is faced with — i.e. the premise of the article — fuzzy things like “be more ethical” aren’t useful.

I was replying to Sam.

And I’m not saying “all right boys, take off your pants, do whatever you like.” I’m saying for decisions like the one Netflix is faced with — i.e. the premise of the article — fuzzy things like “be more ethical” aren’t useful.

Netflix has a pretty good range of comedians and comedian-related material nowadays and apparently use that data to make their programming decisions.

For folks who don’t want Ansari to have a comeback, watching a lot of non-Ansari specials and episodes of their stand-up series (Netflix has a bunch of 15 and 30-minute…

It sucks that the tenor of conversation has to be, “he’s a rapist who’s cancelled” vs. “she’s a liar who regretted bad sex.”

Pretty sure he was watching a lot of porn and thinking “this is what sex is supposed to look like.” I have to imagine there’s a lot of people wandering around out there with some pretty strange ideas nowadays.

If Louis didn’t commit a crime, he was in ejaculation range of one. If we were putting these incidents on a spectrum, he’s a lot further toward Weinstein than Ansari is.

The fact that he would discuss on stage how bad this behavior was — which I think most people assumed was fictionalized — further underscores why his…