Medium-low-temperature take: After “Vision of Love,” this is the best Mariah Carey song.

That photo is amazing.

I want to see this movie.

Scut Farkus is on my personal all-time villains list with other luminary bad guys like Ledger’s Joker, Jordan’s Killmonger, and Hopkins’s Lecter. I’m happy that Zach Ward has turned into a reasonably good looking adult.

This is a fun exercise. It’s also impossible. The best I can do is tiers and even then I’m not particularly confident in my own choices. I think Rushmore might be my favorite*, but you could ask me again tomorrow and I’d probably chose a different one.

Perfect but for Buckley.

What goddessoftransitory said. It’s a passage from the main character’s dream. I can’t say much more without spoilers. But it’s Murakami, so sex in his novels isn’t strictly about sex. Just like his reoccurring well motif isn’t literally about wells. His sex scenes are rarely sexy because they aren’t meant to be.…

FWIW, the quoted passage is from the protagonist’s dream/nightmare, which haunts him afterward. It’s not meant to be realistic.

I was introduced to him via NPR, so I’m not exactly claiming to be a cool music person. ;-)

I wouldn’t have thought that Miguel was my cup of tea (my musical tastes haven’t moved much past the late 90's/early 00's), but I was blown away by his Tiny Desk concert with NPR. His very first song, “Have You Ever,” is great.

Our boxer is basically a living, breathing, farting stuffed animal. She is so warm, soft, and malleable. Our family often fights over whose bed she’ll sleep in.

Reese Witherspoon strikes me as a kind of (shorter, whiter, American) real-life version of Tahani Al Jamil. She’s nearly too perfect to be true. This is more observation than criticism, as I love both Reese and Tahani.

I’m about four episodes in, and so far it feels comprised of 5 parts style and 1 part substance. It is beautifully shot (although it sometimes teeters on the edge of showoff-y) and well acted. But I find the story fairly underwhelming so far, even when the heavy-handed music commands me to feel like I should be on the…

When I was in my 20's and between a long bout of travelling and grad school, I temped at a hospital’s admin dep’t in San Francisco, which was boring as hell. One day, my boss told me they needed attendees for a speech Lynda Carter (AKA OG Wonder Woman) was giving on irritable bowel syndrome before maybe 20 people,…

Agreed. This is a weird article. Noting the video-poster’s connection to Parkland is also a little odd.

That catch actually had a high degree of difficulty. He caught it directly overhead in front of the oncoming strong safety. Nice job, big man!

You know it’s a mid-00's romcom because (a) Kutcher and (b) the least subtle Orbitz advertising ever.

Counterpoint: Dogs are great and this is delightful.

In Utero was not a great overall album, but it was worth spending my hard-earned high-school dollars just for “Heart-Shaped Box” and “All Apologies,” which, in my highly biased opinion, are transcendentally great tracks.

My wife and I share a FastPass for occasional trips to San Francisco via a couple bridges. It’s pretty damn easy to forget it and drive through the FastPass lane anyway. And, yeah, you usually get a bill in the mail, which blows but I guess is fair. Anyhow, I doubt Ice-T was trying to cheat the system.