RE: Your second addendum - Yeah, that was the kind of thing I genuinely didn't comprehend for a long, long time, until I met Ali Jackson of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra one night. The quartet that was playing asked him onstage, and they just clicked in about .5 seconds, dicking around and doing five or six…

This weekend will be all about Assassin's Creed: Black Flag and Mass Effect 3. I'd like to finish both before blowing money on The Division, although I am increasingly waffling on doing that. I've never been a MMORPG fan, and the beta was nice, but I can't imagine getting serious mileage out of it without a dedicated…

One of my favorite games on the internet is to search for "[PERSON'S NAME] the hedgehog" on Google Image Search.

Conan's remotes are still the best thing on late-night TV.

Although I definitely need to find more shanties for these assholes on the boat to sing.

I've half-joked for the longest time that the reason Hollywood hasn't gotten around to making a serious Oscar-bait Harriet Tubman biopic is because they're trying to figure out how to make the story about a white abolitionist played by Jennifer Lawrence, and have Harriet Tubman as her sassy black sidekick.

I always thought that was a weird (okay, hugely depressing) thing for people to say. Like, people in the Philippines, in Japan, in Africa LOVE the Harry Potter movies. Love em'. But a black/Asian/Latino lead is a bridge to far for the U.S.A.?

In fairness, the woman who started #OscarsSoWhite has said repeatedly, in every interview that she's done (she's even corrected people in interviews) that the hashtag is for all minority groups, not just Black/White. And Iñárritu was nominated and won.

Somewhere, after the Girl Scout Cookies bit, Gordon Ramsay rolls his eyes and harrumphs.

"Writing's on the Wall" is the bond theme Spectre deserved.

In fairness, literally no-one who saw the uncensored video was thinking about proper spelling.

"The process of taming an animal is rudimentary at best (you find one, throw bait at it, wait a few seconds, and voilà)"

I have a day off coming, and I may do a double-feature of this and Deadpool.

Yes, I'm pretty sure the resounding response to this episode in many places can be summarized as "WHAT ABOUT BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME?"

"We are not a country that knows how to have discussions about our weaknesses."

I started to look at comments about this show online, and saw a white woman claiming that the episode was not only inflammatory, but "quite possibly set us back years".

I've always thought that comics can do both. I mean, I've read WWII memoirs that were definitely grim and gritty, and simultaneously had moments (many moments) of absurdity, whimsy and great humor. Because that's what life is. I never thought doing one required you to eschew the other.

Oh, that sounds fantastic. I was running an Urban Arcana d20 campaign (and a different Shadowrun game, later) and some of the Street Fighter remixes were absolutely perfect.

I was a HUGE OCRemix person for a long time. I mean, this is possibly the Inception of nerdiness, but I used to use a LOT of their music as ambiance for when I was DMing.

I've been told I remind people of Michael Dorn so…. sure, if we can believably make him into a 30-something, why not?