I’ve certainly never been able to afford COBRA when leaving a job. Even when I had a good savings cushion, I needed that money for the transition and emergencies. I couldn’t afford to tap into it for the ridiculous amount of money COBRA was asking.

Only saw it the once in theaters, but I watched the original Bladerunner a couple of times the days leading up to 2049's release, and I remember thinking that this movie largely improved upon the original in almost every way (the soundtrack not being by Vangelis or even Oneohtrix Point Never prevents it from a true 5…

I know here on the AV club we give it crowns made of gold, but in the real world, The Leftovers is criminally underrated. Try finding a normal person who even heard of the show. Try finding a normal person who’s willing to watch it when you describe the basic premise. Try finding a show that’s so perfect and haunting…

My father died on Thanksgiving Day twenty years ago. Thanksgiving dinner didn’t happen that year, and neither did Christmas. We were very close and it was very traumatizing.

Isn’t that just a Philly cheesesteak with fries in it?

Vázquez then told police that he and the victim had “sex but not really.”

There’s kind of an off tone here. The premise seems to be that maybe people only liked Borderlands because they were immature and young and now they are old and seasoned and won’t? I guess that works if you assume that the player was X age (maybe your age?) when they first started playing but now they have “been to a…

I knew without looking that the game was in Phoenix.  Griner only does this kind of shit at home.  

To me, it’s not the drag that’s offensive—drag, and even drag that’s depicted here, with stubble and a cheap wig, is pretty value-neutral as far as I’m concerned. Folks who do drag can be but aren’t necessarily trans, and drag has a long history I’m not remotely equipped to expound on that’s nuanced and complex. If…

LeBron’s celebrations are completely classless. It sends the wrong message to kids that the refs and the league didn’t assess a technical foul on his son’s team because of LeBron’s antics. Follow the rules like everyone else. Because of this star worship, I fell two damned points short of hitting the over.

But he stood on her throat and didn't kneel, right?

Well, I’m personally pretty satisfied by the books, video games, TV shows and movies I had growing up as a kid. I had MST3K, Calvin & Hobbes, Redwall, Goosebumps, Simpsons, Jackie Chan flicks and more.

Suicide. Is there a shortcut this guy won’t take?

I just want to burn it all the fuck down.  

Congratulations! Now you know what it’s like to be a minority.

I think I gotta go with “The Merv Griffin Show”. The moment where Kramer decides to shut down the show and retool, so he pulls the plug and just sits there in the dark . . . outSTANDING!

because it reminds me of TMNT and I sing the theme in my head every time. 

Having been accused of beating a dead horse, the management at Santa Anita has moved to the only logical next step:  adding more dead horses.

Big hit to Santa Anita. Hollendorfer’s horses were the glue that held that place together.

I know of a couple who’ve been married for 50-something years, and he introduces her as “my current wife.”