Yeah. That quote seems pretty insane. I think he’d have said something more clever.

There is an investigation underway, and nobody is trying to stop it (and Franken welcomed it). It seems like they could let it play out before we start calling for his resignation over anonymous claims.

It is anti-entertainment. It ruined my mood by the time the actual movie started. It’s insultingly bad and not even interesting from an animation standpoint.

The most disappointing thing about the short... wait... one of the top 5 disappointing things about the short was that Pixar shorts are usually so interesting because they are also proof-of-concepts for their latest animation techniques. Even if I’m not that in to the story of them, they are usually fun to watch, and…

I think it might have been worse watching them try not to say “Christmas” for the first hour or so of the “That Time of Year” song. “This is clearly a shitty christmas song. Just fucking say ‘Christmas’ and let us get over it.” I think they mentioned menoras as the first reference to a specific holiday, after that, it…

It’s a little simpler than Spirited Away. I tried to make the comparison in my head, but the similarities are mostly superficial. Bad guys are bad guys, good guys are good. There’s not a lot of room for the fuzzier moral boundaries of a Miyazaki film, which ended up being pretty disappointing.

Oh, the Frozen “short”…

No. It’s more like the opposite of your example. It would be more like someone learning the history of Metallica, what they did to make metal more mainstream (for better or worse), and appreciating their place in relatively recent musical history while still not really liking their music. I don’t get how you can…

I’d love to see UBIK done in the style of A Scanner Darkley. I think it needs that sort of not-quite-real look to it to help people disengage from reality just enough to buy it. God, I really do love UBIK and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Is that a hard, “No”? I mean, should you want your kids entering college as technological illiterates? I assume you do the “family computer” thing at least.

I have to agree with you. The first season was so good because it was about kids being kids inside a magical mystery. I didn’t care that much about the Upsidedown for its own sake— it was really just a plot motivator. This season felt inessential but still entertaining and genuinely enjoyable for the reasons you’ve…

I’m coming to realizing that one “produces” in Hollywood through a series of rapes. You just rape a bunch of people and then there’s a movie or TV show at the end of it.

You should have googled it first.

But you did engage. I’m confused since you’re so smart and stuff.

In It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Ethel Merman is supposed to be the cliché shrewish mother-in-law but, in some respects might be the most sane character in the show. After the instigating car crash that leaves Jimmy Durante dead, Milton Berle says, “These things happen.”

When it’s a white shooter, the biographical coverage gets far, far closer to brushing against “defense” than it does with anyone else <i>for some reason</i>. They turn it into something like “tragedy on both sides.” I’m in a hurry and can’t dig it up right now, but I saw a split image that had a headline about how…

Is the US better than Russia at that now? That’s cool. Or are you talking about Space X? I don’t consider them to be “the U.S.” because they could pull up stakes and move wherever they want. I still can’t believe we just rolled over and let NASA be killed to privatize space travel.

Condescendingly calling people “honey” is way more trolly than asking (albeit rhetorical) questions about the status of the United States on the international stage.

A few billion... but, really, after the first hundred million, who keeps track?

It’s about awesome.

Watch the AvE video on this thing: