Your local library does not have a good John Waters selection?  That is depressing.

Huh huh. Landlords and power whores?

Uh

Which Catholic Church: the one from “Stigmata” or the one from "Spotlight”?

Are you trying to claim that the man’s heart kept beating <i>without</i> Kali's involvement?

Correction: An American Tail

Thank you for shouldering this burden for us.

Very much depends on the cut. Fat from a prime rib or a strip steak, absolutely. The fat on the edge of a round, no thank you.

Very good point. Salt at least an hour ahead, and cook at 275 (or even better 250 if you have the patience) for an hour or more. 

I love Ralph Ellison’s answer, so well thought out. The dislike of symbolism externally imposed is also quite similar to Tolkein’s dislike of explicit allegory.

Hard to do. Bokonon taught us not to take his advice, because he knew it was worthless.

Yeah, this guy must have never heard “Brick Houses of the Holy” by Dread Zeppelin.

I am surprised you did not mention “flivver”. That term was popular in the 1910's - 1930's and can be found in the “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley and in some of short stories by Sinclair Lewis.

I like to go into a wine shop or better grocery store and tell the advisor, “I would like a red wine that I can use to cook with a roast beef, then drink the rest with dinner.”

I remember a guy’s cat who would come up and sit on the table every time we smoked weed and noticeably sniff the smoke repeatedly. You can’t tell me it wasn’t doing that on purpose.

So did the medieval Scholastics. It is emperical testing of hypotheses that makes modern science work.

The interview that AV Club should have gotten: http://www.vulture.com/amp/2018/07/who-is-america-ness-lee-battle-rap.html

A “swan song” perhaps?

Yeah, since we’ve leaned hard into barbarism on the border, who cares about maintaining a 365.24 day solar year.

Yeah, this is true.  Jimi Hendrix was never abusive the way that "before fame" bio-pic showed him.