I keep being frustrated by a certain mode of conventional wisdom here that’s used to judge particular shows. Outlander is not one of my personal favorites, but if you want a any sense of ‘scalping’ as a practice in the North American frontier, you want to stop reading simplifying ‘explainers’ and start reading real…

I’m not generally impressed with Whole Foods, but the goose we got from a southeastern PA Whole Foods this year was genuinely good (and I think local).

Also, the neck is kind of hilarious to work with compared to a turkey neck. The visceral materiality of it is a reminder to any chef that’s forgotten what they’re working with.

This was useful in helping me make decisions with my goose this year, though I went with Lopez-Alt’s gravy in all its elaborate Frenchness. The blanching before seemed really productive.

The only smoke was at the very end with the honey-based glaze, and that was only for a few minutes. I think the smoke would be much…

I am really trying to decide where the enthusiasm for the new Hellboy at this site is coming from. It doesn’t feel at all consistent with the usual patterns and devotions that are a feature of this site. The trailer isn’t even consistent with the prior promotional rhetoric you’ve all employed here in covering it.…

The way this site continues to approach the Gunn dismissal fascinates me. There’s a fairly broad consensus at this point, I think, that it was the wrong thing to do. But this site has a problem going there because I think they feel the need to leave a space for doing this kind of thing to the people they believe…

So much for “this is going to be more gothic, serious and horror-driven”. This feels MORE comedic than the Perlman version, and is completely ripping off his and del Toro’s tonality in the first Hellboy film. This trailer is exactly what I didn’t need: it doesn’t feel at all like a different, more Mignola-aligned…

Nothing pleases everybody. But I thought it was visually absolute genius.

Yes, but Scanlon doesn’t represent the Lehigh Valley. Her district is primarily Delaware County to the west of Philadelphia.

Does Akiva Goldsman get all these gigs because he writes really fast or efficiently? Or is affordable? Because it’s sure not because of the quality of the work he does.

My mother and I had an intense cross-country conversation about this issue this summer as we drove from California to Pennsylvania. She was stunned that anyone would pay on the post-tax; I was stunned by the idea that anyone meticulously calculates from the pre-tax amount. My case was buoyed by the fact that I later…

I remember my pediatrician when I was a teenager, who knew I was intensely into Tolkien and similar works, saying to me: “So I went to see this movie version of Lord of the Rings...and I didn’t understand a single damn thing. What the hell was that? Explain it to me!”

I will be offended if they have somehow found a way to not be offensive to people determined to take offense.

I had a really negative reaction midway through about several things.

1) First, the Doctor is generally conversant with human history. Yes, amusingly at times ignorant about the details, but something feels very off about the Doctor knowing a ton about British and European history but being basically pretty damn…

Wait a fucking minute. Are you telling me that THIS looks like poor animation compared to the original He-Man and She-Ra?

You know what’s poor animation compared those? Nothing. It’s fine to like the originals but please, don’t tell me that the animation was the best thing about them. Really.

I wonder if annato/achiote seed would be another way to get the red color.

I loved Concrete on its initial publication. Both on the narrow superhero fanboy channel of “this is the Thing done right”, which I gather was a response that Chadwick disliked, or so I heard; and on the level of the sophisticated, soulful adult storytelling that the series offered.

I’m kind of at a loss. You’ve focused on the key song that’s meant to subvert the sentiment ostensibly being voiced. Moreover, it’s the singular thing that every single one of the people singing it learns to rethink by the end of the movie. Moreover, the whole point is that it gives Mulan insight into how men think…

It is at the moment where you try to reserve space by saying “That does warrant a discussion” that the problem arises. There is at least a relationship—not directly causal, but associated—between the insistence that all casting choices, scripting choices, etc. must be subject to fan scrutiny for whether they exactly…

I think you’re falling for something here. If Strange ran the numbers and saw that “well, our one chance to win is only if Peter Quill doesn’t mess it up”, I think Strange wouldn’t have hesitated to send Quill to the other side of Titan via a portal.

They were never going to get the Gauntlet off. It only seemed like…