…Oh god, you are my mother.

But writing is a job. No, it's not working in a factory—most jobs aren't. But it's still a job.

My husband and I have been taking advantage of the summer programming at our local indie movie theater in Ambler, PA—all summer, they play old(er) films on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

So I was out at the local AC Moore craft store a month ago, and coming out to my car, I saw a beer can sitting there. On further inspection, I saw that it was an unopened can of Billy Beer. Naturally, I brought it home and it's sitting on the bar in my basement. I have no idea what it was doing there, or what kind of…

For some reason, I thought Knightriders was earlier, so I stand corrected.

There hasn't been a good live-action Arthur film since Excalibur*, so I'm going to cautiously hold out some hope, just because I'm an Arthurian myth nut. But I have no hope that it'll adhere to White's book, unfortunately.

Show me a human who's aged well, and I'll show you a rich plastic surgeon.

It's true—there's no grime like Philly grime. You can't get that in Toronto—just look at A History of Violence.

Yay! Even for a one-off review, I'm so happy to see Gumball covered here. You see the Bundys, but to me it's like early Roseanne—with all it's emphasis on an always-down-on-it's-luck family, and putting a lie to the optimism that most shows would push in that situation—run through a Loony Tunes blender.

look, I'm just a dirty pagan, so it doesn't matter what I think, but I don't see how this is areas on to root against Team USA.

USA! USA! USA! And Abby Wambach's first move after winning was to go and kiss her wife. Life is, even if momentarily, good.

I have no idea what you wrote, but damn if I'm not upvoting you anyway.

Holy shit—did they make Olympus using Second Life?

Ugh—that shouldn't even be legal. There has to be a way to make these places accessible without destroying the historical integrity of a building.

Thanks for sharing that—and via that, I came across a documentary called NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell:

Yeah, it's interesting how the different circumstances—not too long after 9/11; middling-but-not-depressed national economy—gave a different result. Were it to happen today, what with the bad economy, racial tensions/white terrorism brought to the fore, police violence controversies, and simmering tension as Manhattan…

Food shouldn't be fractals!

Weirdly, that's why I like him. He'd be exhausting to actually know, but I appreciate a fighter.

The Harry Shearer one is great, both because he's been in show business since the days of radio, and because he's been part of so many things, whether it's SNL at different (and incredibly contentious) times, Spinal Tap, Albert Brooks' films, Fernwood, The Simpsons, NPR, etc. He can be prickly as hell, but I found…

The longest I ever went was two weeks to a Girl Scout camp back in the early 90s, but never as long as six weeks or two months.