I was raised by an anti-authoritarian Army officer who served in the government for 35 years and worked with a formerly anti-authoritarian enlisted soldier who kept getting medals and commendations, promoted and busted down in ranks for insubordination for 20. It definitely happens.

I think it’s fair to say every podcast needs 50 percent less banter, no matter who’s talking.

He also recorded a lot of stuff for the park attractions that they could potentially lift from. I imagine there’s also outtakes from all of his Mr. Potato Head work, given his performance style, that could potentially be used.

We should all be lucky enough to get shot down by Rosario Dawson once.

You might just know shitty men.

As he spiraled downward, he gave at least one interview talking about how the money made him feel completely alienated from society at large.

On the other hand, the Gates, when confronted with that problem, decided to cure malaria instead of turning into the absolute worst sort of person.

Huh, I guess one white supremacist was erased after all.

Stopped clocks and all of that.

“Mom! Why couldn’t you have bribed the trademark office? GAWD!”

San Bernardino County is the biggest in the US. Lots of places in it that aren’t the City of San Bernardino. Much of The Right Stuff was filmed there, for instance.

You could film something like this in, say, Redlands, and it’d be a good fit. (Especially since I have to imagine zoning issues will eventually come up in…

The new names make me optimistic that this is a new group of girls facing a similar set of challenges and probably giving into their lust for power.

Get even one of the original witches in there in a cameo (I’ve seen Fairuza Balk mentioned as a good candidate, and I agree), and it’s a sequel.

Counterpoint: The original movie was garbage, mostly consisting of people bullying Dumbo and/or being racist. The transcendent flight that everyone remembers is only a short sequence at the very end of the movie, after you’ve spent the better part of an hour watching the world grind a small child into dirt.

This is one…

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If they filmed in San Bernardino, Riverside or Ventura Counties, they’d be mostly fine. It’s just LA and Orange Counties that have that level of noise.

It’s going to be hard to screw up a Natalie Morales/Mike Schur combo.

And Californication.

A stealth game set in Middle Earth, with an unreliable narrator continually whispering info to the player character.

I dunno, man, I’d green-light that shit.

I kind of wish those little girls had a cool older sister or aunt who would have hooked them up with Liz Phair instead, but Alanis is definitely better than the mediocre, “be quiet and smile more” conformist nonsense that’s otherwise pushed on women.

The title track on Extraordinary Machine is amazing. There’s a super-cool alternate timeline where that’s the theme song for a Disney movie about a clockwork girl.

Think about the term “guilty pleasure” and what’s often cited: things women are “supposed” to like such as romantic comedies, pop music, chick lit. Have you ever heard of anything masculine-coded as someone’s guilty pleasure?

She gave him fair warning.