The thing I found so scary about the Cybermen is that they seem so... inexorable. Daleks are always stopping to argue with each other, but the Cybermen just. Keep. Coming. See also Earthshock.

“Netflix has just added Season 12 of Supernatural” says my email!

This show comes on, and the episode feels like sort of a timeless blip where you get immersed in another world, and then SUDDENLY YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK. It is exquisite torture.

And I thought I crushed hard on her for Bleak House, where she was so marvelous! This is incredible!

“On a positive note, he didn’t die.” 

I agree. I now find her a fully rounded and yet still unlikable character.

I am deeply terrified that they will change the ending of the most spectacular reveal in a mystery story ever.

Maybe skip the Mongolian cashmere: http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/09/504118819/how-your-cashmere-sweater-is-decimating-mongolias-grasslands

AND SIMILARLY the pink-tinted heart-shaped York Peppermint Patties are noticeably better than the usual round version. Believe it or don’t.

We eat MORE of them so they never ever get stale.

My pre-ordered copy just came and I can’t wait to read it.

It makes perfect sense to me. A lot of people have this mindset where poor people are “lazy” or “spongers” or “parasites” — in short, they are Bad. They are Morally Deficient. THEREFORE, people who have a lot of money must be “hardworking” or “admirable” or “go-getters” — they are Good! Those really rich people, they…

His haircut says “skinhead who wouldn’t commit.”

I really hate what Ballanchine did to this dance. And so many still worship at his altar.

Also fun: getting enough pills if you are doing 9 weeks on pills, 1 week off. I tried this to reduce my migraines; it was pretty awesome; but I couldn’t get the pills when I needed them! I’d go in needing more pills but my insurance would not pay for a refill sooner than 12 weeks. So I had to go back to the usual…

So happy to see love for Sky High. It’s a perfect extension of the superhero world (a superhero high school, neatly divided into cool kids and losers just as in any good high school film). And Danielle Panabaker is perfect.

Words Ben Carson could have chosen instead:

Phyllis Schlafly: “The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy.... Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.” 

I own every single issue of Astro City. The name sits in my pull box even through its hiatus periods, and luckily my local comics shop lives on and is always ready to alert me when another ish drops.

Last year one of the Rifftrax simulcast shorts was all about the lifecycle of paper. I missed at least half of it due to convulsions of laughter, so I hope there won’t be a quiz.