I liked the art direction okay and I liked Karen O's music, even if I thought it contributed to the overall high levels of pretense. It was the everything else that got to me.

Mac n cheese made made with a roux always is gross to me. Best advice, probably from serious eats: toss a little cornstarch with your freshly-shredded cheese and melt it with a little evaporated milk. You get smooth, somewhat liquid cheese sauce that works really well either on pasta or as a base for nachos or…

I mean "could happen today" as in "doesn't involve much or any tech or science we don't already grasp." Like if someone made a movie about the possible effects of a worldwide flu pandemic (or whatever) it wouldn't necessarily be "very" SF-ish, and neither would a movie about a fictional (but possible using current…

I forgot how much I really, truly loathe Where the Wild Things Are. It made me angry in ways I didn't know I could be angry!

An L. Ron Chubbard?

I'm a Watchmen apologist, though I think it had more problems than Matthew Goode (though he's definitely one of them.) Malik Akerman's utter lack of anything even resembling acting ability, for one.
If Snyder had maybe a couple more people telling him "no, don't do that" whenever he got too high off his own fumes—if,…

X-men Origins: Wolverine is one of just a couple movies I've seen where it was actually surreal how bad it was, like I couldn't believe it was the actual product of an actual studio with an actual budget, staffed by professionals, released to theaters. Suicide Squad approached but didn't quite reach that level of…

There's not very much sci-fi to it, which helps it be pretty accessible (two of the times I read it were for different science/speculative fiction classes, once in high school and once in college) even without a background in sci-fi. Other than there being a big drop in fertility rates, I don't think there's much that…

Yeah, this is one case where making the cast racially diverse kind of muddles the original messages of the novel (though it might address that within the show.) I would almost rather (since this is apparently not a limited series, which is in itself pretty concerning to me) they added a second narrative more about the…

I've read the novel three or four times, first time at age like… ten or eleven, on recommendation from my mother.
The violence, sexual and otherwise, isn't terribly explicit. Scenes that might be really traumatic (and I say this as a person who has experienced significant abuse, sexual and otherwise) as handled by…

I would think it would be interesting to look at his friendship with H. Rider Haggard, given the themes of She et al.

It's really not recommended to flush cat poop. Water treatment centers aren't equipped to deal with toxoplasma, which then infects aquatic life and the water supply in general. It's not healthy for anyone.

"Flanderization" just means that some defining quality becomes the only quality they have—like if Dennis only ever spoke in implied threats and that was the whole "joke," or if Mac made a gay joke every time he's on screen, or whatever. Instead of being a character who has some traits, a "flanderized" character is…

Quantum mechanics.

Pee ooo deee pie. Saying his name gives him power.

My sister nannies and one of "her" kids got some "ultra-rare" shopkin and sold it for $450 on eBay. It was some kind of plastic cupcake. I don't have any other input.

I know 25-to-30-year-olds who like makeup videos, poo diaper, unboxing crap, whatever. It's not purely a generational divide.

BarkBox?

Isn't that the plot of V/H/S?

I'm not making any point other than "G. Willow Wilson is proficient in Arabic."