Yeah, it's like saying Notepad sucks because it barely does anything. That ignores the fact that the few things it does are incredibly useful.

Yes, to call it a roller coaster would be major understatement. Personally, I've swung all the way between deciding I'm done with it (at the nadir of some of the brain-dead Dougie scenes) to thinking it's the most ingenious television that has ever been produced (Episode 1/2 and Episode 8). At this point I'm just…

I think I respectfully have to disagree. The attempt to market "techno" as mainstream rock and roll was a brief, strange period in popular music that is best forgotten, in my humble opinion. I say this as a child of the 90s and general lover of all things 90s.

It was my choice below too. Maybe it's kind of like the Eruption of harmonica solos: flashy and of questionable taste, but practically the definition of virtuosity on the instrument, at least for casual music listeners.

The harmonica solo in Blues Traveler's Hook.

I thought the most helpful thing would be to directly connect some statements CineCraft made with the idea of mindfulness, as a way of demonstrating how it might be of value to him/her. In retrospect, I suppose I could have used examples from my own experience instead, because I see how my statement "you might see…

If you interpreted my comments as "you're fine CineCraft, get over it" then I'm sorry I failed so badly to convey what I meant, because that is not at all what I was trying to say.

I think it's interesting when you say things to the effect of "my work is the only thing that matters" or "my happiness depends on whether I can make a difference to somebody." What if you did your work for the moment-to-moment joy of it, regardless of whether it "succeeded" or "failed" in the long term?

I haven't seen it yet, but it's sounding like maybe Dunkirk is doing for Millennials and younger people what Saving Private Ryan did for us Gen X-ers 20 years ago. Namely, it's good enough to be a life-changing experience and not merely a movie. It shows us, in a way that most of us could probably never otherwise…

It's not bad at all, and I enjoyed it well enough. It was a nice update of the Bond formula. Vesper Lynd was especially great. In general I just thought that the same criticisms that many people had of say, Quantum of Solace applied equally to Casino Royale: in getting rid of the lighter, more fantasy-driven…

They seem to be the exact same frames that Harry Caray had. I think I've seen a few other old school Hollywood types with them as well.

I don't even really like Casino Royale, but I would have to agree.

The only thing that's weird is that people have very short memories, considering that this exact same bullshit was rampant in the initial internet boom and bust period.

Yeah, pretty much. I was and am a big fan of the show, especially of the delightfully over-the-top characters, but I would be the first to admit that calling it "prestige drama" is a bit of a stretch. I disagree with the article: Oz had a lot more in common with a soap opera than with something like The Sopranos. …

Especially toward the end, when almost every new inmate would be raped, tortured, and/or killed within a few episodes of arriving on the show, it did get to the point of being almost laughable. I had to wonder: why can't they just install some damn video cameras?

In Wet Hot American Summer too.

I would probably have to go with Christopher Meloni as Keller. Schillinger was a really bad guy, but Keller was evil incarnate. I still have nightmares about specific scenes involving Keller, like the one where he snaps a guy's neck while getting a blowjob from him. Some of the scenes where he uses his…

I wonder about the economics of these things. Is she paying a lawyer to handle this out of her own pocket? Does the lawyer work for free based on the possibility of earning a percentage of the settlement? Even the most frivolous of lawsuits involve big fees just to get forms filed and things like that, don't they? …

At least practice with a butter knife first.

I do kind of wonder why they have to dive into these second- and third-tier characters when they've barely scratched the surface of all the best and best-known characters. Obviously the strategy can be wildly successful with lesser-known characters like Guardians of the Galaxy, but why not just do a spinoff focusing…