It totally makes sense — there’s a long tradition in literary theory about the subversive as a necessary element to maintain systems of power. For instance that’s what like 90% of New Historicist criticism (a lot of which is inspired by Bakhtin and Foucault) is about.

I really, really want a food replicator, because it would be nice to order food from a box in the wall, have it materialize ready to eat, and then put the dishes/leftovers back in the wall box when it’s done.

Now I kind of want to visit the alternate timeline where they kept that and as a result Walter Mondale won the 1984 election.

I bet she’s tired of these jokes about her giant hand.

Gosling’s is a delight.

Maybe he’s just really gap-toothed?

The official Song of Ice and Fire cookbook is actually pretty fantastic — of course, it helps that the books contain so many descriptions of food, so it’s an obvious choice for a tie-in cookbook. The authors actually researched historical recipes (mostly medieval, in keeping with the time period ASOIAF is based on,…

That facial expression is one of my favorite things about TLJ (which I really liked). It’s such a perfect encapsulation of “YOU WATCHED IT! YOU CAN’T UNWATCH IT!”

The important thing is that the BBC Radio version is terrific.

That’s actually the official explanation! I mean, you have to extrapolate the elf molestation, but the rest of it.

There’s no need for profanity, Warren Oates!

Bakshi’s Gandalf was William Squire, which I had to look up — my brain went “Michael Hordern!” but no, he was in the BBC Radio version (they do have a couple of voice actors in common, most notably Peter Woodthorpe as Gollum, but Hordern isn’t one of them). Which is fantastic, for the record, but not very well-known…

I love carbonara, but it does not love me — eggs make me really sick unless they’re very thoroughly cooked. I’m just going to go sit in a corner and weep now.

Detroit-style pizza, as a designation, isn’t really about crust thickness, although it’s thicker than, say, a New York-style crust — the distinguishing features are the topping inversion (toppings, then cheese, then sauce) and the fact that the cheese goes all the way to the edges and is burnt onto the crust. Also,…

I ate so much Cottage Inn pizza in college. That shit is great.

Detroit-style pizza is the best and I’m glad that people outside the area know it’s a thing now, because that means I can buy it without having to visit my family in Detroit...

The finger thing means the taxes!

Seriously. Do these people just live in a world where there’s no global warming or Donald Trump? And if so, how can I go there?

“Save the liver!”

They definitely didn’t read this bit from Ezekiel: “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”