I recently took Amtrak for the first time returning home from central IL to east TX. It’s an 11-12 hour drive, a 4-6 hour flight with a connection (or a considerably larger ask for a friend on the other end to come pick me up in DFW), and a ~17-hour train ride. The train actually takes me right to the small town I…

I laughed unreasonably hard about the 6 ft high club.

How much of a discount is that? $20, or $200? I’d take the comfort of a train over a bus for some expense. Not sure yet where I’d draw the line

I really warmed up to Cat after her confession to Talisa about Jon—that when he was an infant he fell sick and could’ve died, and she prayed to the gods for his recovery. She promised that she would love him as her own and that she would implore Ned to legitimize him and give him the name Stark. Only she couldn’t keep…

Everyone I know who has read the books said that they really disliked Cat as a character, and really, there’s not a whole lot to like about her in the show. But we do like her, and that is entirely because of Michelle Fairley.

And they licensed the name to overpriced music schools across the country.  One opened near us and we went to the open house.  I was not all that impressed with the “teachers” and then they told us how much it would cost and I was like “Nope,  my son can take lessons at the park district for a tenth of that from…

Was it wedged inside a copy of Howards End?

They did their homework: the music playing when Kane looks at the egg is Jerry Goldsmith’s original score for the scene, which was not used in the final mix.

Tonight I’m taking my daughter to see The Wizard of Oz at our local high school...It will not be this. 

Try “right there”. North Bergen isn’t exactly a rich community; it’s no ghetto, but it’s mostly working-class and Hispanic. If anything, that makes it even more impressive that they pulled this off, especially given how DIY everything was.

“They fired a gym teacher.”

Heheh.. no Glee-style Broadway mash-ups for this high school drama club!

Looks like a lot of fun. Reminds me of the elementary school production of Scarface ; )

As long as it’s team jock vs team facehugger I am down for it.

The universities weren’t right leaning. They were nationalist, but our conception of nationalism being rightist is product WWII where the Fascists were the bad guys. In the early 20th century nationalism was a Progressive ideology. Look at famous American Progressives like Theodore Roosevelt as a good example. Wilson…

The Allies didn't fight to "save democracy" until 1917 when the Whites took over Russia. Remember for most of the war the only democracy involved was France. Russia was an absolute monarchy and Britain was the largest, most brutal colonial power on the planet. And France enslaved Africans to fight on the front line.…

Fargin Icehole! Johnny Dangerously was a favorite in stifling hyper-moral Christian Colleges where you couldnt use any Fargin’ languages.

My vote would have to go to Richard Jenkins losing it at a bunch of cheering Japanese schoolgirls. I’ve tried, ever since I saw Cabin in the Woods, to match the inflection, the raw fury, he gets on the first f-bomb, and it can’t be done.

I have no sympathy fo Ludendorf, but he was never a member of the Nazi party. He took part in Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, which Hitler hoped would add some legitimacy, but the two fell out quickly afterwards. The two shared overlapping, but incompatible ideologies.

i also felt a little bit gross that the character danny huston plays was an actual person- eric ludendorff. like many ww1 generals and leaders, he’s hardly some blameless babe in the woods in a lot of respects, but casting him as an actual psycho who planned to commit massive war crimes and did supernatural blow to…