It does seem more like a list of eight-syllable titles vs titles that actually have the correct stress pattern. “List of rulers of Dasmascus” is a stretch.

I prefer to think it was lab-based, but that is less romantic.

There was a “fan theory” that made the rounds a few years ago about all the Pixar movies being in the same universe, with Cars and Monsters, Inc. respectively being the results of human/machine and human/animal hybridization after the bulk of the human population left Earth (per Wall-E). Turns out Boo is the key. 

AVC writers go through weird epochs where it seems like every piece uses a specific word or phrase.

Leonard Pierce broke this months ago.

Kristen Johnston from 3rd Rock would’ve fit that bill at one point.

“Never saw a dime in profits.”

It’s kind of like the arthouse version of jocks dressing up as cheerleaders. “The auteur is doing a genre picture, and a winking one at that! How marvelously droll! Let’s go slumming!”

I’d start negotiations at a hundred but happily walk away with $50.

Chuckling at the utter clueless-ness of hitting send on a weirdo snitch email and earnestly expecting a thank you.

My daughter is 3 and thus still obsessed with anything princess-y or animated. However, I well know that the day is coming when I earnestly ask about some property she previously loved and she’ll reply with “That’s so lame, dad! Ugh!”

Press X to kick map in creek.

Everything you’re doing is bad, I want you to know this.

I’m one of the good toxic fans!

Isn’t it customary, as an interviewer, to edit and condense all the weird interruptions and vocal tics? Sure, everyone talks that way, but it’s different to read them word-for-word versus experiencing them audibly.

Verily, Dempsey’s then-recent turn as “Detective #2" in Scream 3 ensured he could write his own ticket.

A tremendous EXPLOSION in the price of lumber!

Is it new editorial policy for newswires to be so first-person? Not even the more writerly “royal we”?

I mean, for all intensive purposes...

Is one of the male writers’ family members standing IN THE MIDDLE OF AFGHANISTAN?