well, that sounds awful… unless it's a blessing in disguise? i wake up most mornings muttering about how work is for suckers and why should i have to work just because i haven't any money? but i'd also be terrified mess if i didn't have some way to cover my mortgage and healthcare, so best of luck moving on to…

i was pretty oblivious for most of Zardoz too but that's because i was drinking a $4 bottle of vodka mixed with a $1 jug of orange drank with two or three friends in an apartment with about six fellow nerds. i was cracking wise with the best of them for the first hour or so but eventually fell asleep. it was my first…

Trek, and sci-fi in general, has always been a really good, entertaining prism to look at existing social issues and concerns, so the Romulan/Reman division could make for an interesting way to explore existing cultural or religious divides like the Sunni/Shite - the same way DS9 toyed with using the…

that sounds cool - hope you have fun! you don't owe me any favors but, if you get a chance, i'd love to hear back somehow about whether the Fix The Chapel effort ever got any traction - about five+ yeas back, some people tried to put together the money to save a small chapel in the graveyard featured in the opening…

unless they're the cowardly nitwits they were characterized as during S4, of course. (love the name, by the way. that is one batshit movie.)

that's actually one of the pitfalls of focusing on so many different storylines and characters - there's no way this show could have taken place in anything like real-time: if i remember right, the length of time between the first episode and the second season was basically Piper's entire sentence. (it was 18 months,…

as well as collusion and, essentially, conspiracy on the part of at least two other guards who caught Humps bringing the gun past the metal detector, half-heartedly tried to prevent his clearly unauthorized and illegal decision to bring a firearm into a minimum security prison and then immediately backed down when he…

my assumption has always been that this aspect of the show (the continued focus on Taylor Schilling despite the audience's clear lack of investment in Piper since at least Season2) has more to do with the Hollywood/"inside baseball" aspects of the show and industry than anything else. on a show purely governed by the…

i understand that people like seeing themselves and their identity represented in stories but do audiences, even marginalized ones, have the expectation that any character sharing their characteristics should suddenly become narratively bullet-proof? because that is pretty much the death of interesting storytelling.

don't know where you hail from but, if your high school was anything like every other high school in America, then i'm guessing, yeah, you did have all the rape, you just weren't aware of it or how other people covered up and ignored it.

well, according to the Timmy Westphall Theory, he probably was Brisco County VI, just going by an assumed name - after all, Munch did appear on an episode of The X-Files, so there's already support for the shared universe thing right there.

i knew a guy in college (i wouldn't call him a friend) who, once he found out i was a Star Trek fan, spent several successive art classes asking whether i had seen Brisco County Jr, encouraging me to check it out and dropping his theory that the Orb on BCJ was, in fact, one of the Orbs of the Prophet on DS9 that had…

on the other hand, neither Mr. A not Mr. E give any fucks at all if they never see his ass again.

am i wrong for hoping this would have been a wacky, fun-loving romp of a sequel to the movie by Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling, where his character survived and wound up adopting an infant partner, teaching baby the ropes of both high-performance motoring and crime?

like a lot of Beck's oeuvre, i love "Debra" unreservedly (i'll cold step to you with a fresh pack of gum, guuuurl) but it holds a special place in my heart because it is one of those songs i've heard more than one person dismissively refer to as a cover despite the fact it is, in fact, the original and the version…

harder than Herbert "H-Dog" Kornfeld, biiiitches.

i saw Body Count play a club in Green Bay with a couple punk bands (Pro-Pain was one and i don't remember who else) when i was in college and i remember it was cold and wet as everyone was waiting to get into the show. a friend who knew i was going to the show taped a brief segment of the local TV news to show me,…

"It wasn’t until 1998’s Blade that comic-book movies appeared viable." uhm - what about the Michael Keaton Batman movies, let alone Christopher Reeves as Superman?

woooo! BREW CREW!!! yah - SEVEN TO ONE WHOMPIN'! woooo! them's my BOYS!
- a Wisconsin native who has lived in WV for more than a decade and can't name a single member of the Brewers current lineup, unless its that guy who got caught in the steroid thing a few years back… and his name escapes me at the moment. ryyyyan……

this guy is a nut job asshole looking for free publicity but, i mean (sigh) - they're just rocks, right?