“for the Japanese people who fought and died so bravely yet hopelessly for their Empire and culture”

Also, pointing to Superman of all people as an example of a guy who can put his past behind him, discard his culture and assimilate into the melting pot for the greater good is logically flawed from head to foot. His place of birth literally doesn’t exist anymore; he didn’t know it existed for the first years of his…

But he moved away and the Warriors changed venues. It was already blown up.

Time traveler alert!

Appointment television + relative product scarcity + “high stakes” = NFL’s sustained monster success. Obviously, the hardest (impossible?) part for a Spring League to replicate is the stakes.

I think the only way a Spring Football league works is as an 18-23 pro league. You can’t maintain long-term interest in a league full of guys who aren’t even good enough to be on a practice squad, but I think you could with a small largely full of guys who’d otherwise be playing unpaid at major colleges.

Anthropomorphized versions of the five senses seems like an animated movie premise; DreamWorks’ answer to Inside Out.

I don’t think Phalanx Covenant (at least the basic premise of it) would require much setup at all. Nor the Brood storyline.

This could make for an interesting Sports Black Mirror pilot ep: “unremarkable” pro discovers horrible secret to improving his game, sire a child and absorb that child’s future potential skills to be converted to an enhancement of his own skills in the present. And then at the end uh... you know... it was Earth all…

Well, unless you’re Ken Pagan chucking a beer bottle at a Korean fellow.

“God made the Devil just for fun,

“From that first twist on, The Perfection takes off running, continually shifting the narrative to keep the audience guessing until the very end.”

Lonely Island always manages to get some pretty dope beats for parody songs. “Uniform On” legit goes hard. I would workout to that shit. 

Agreed. I actually found the 91-minute time frame to be a bonus. My first thought was, “Well, at least it’ll get where it’s going without needlessly dragging.”

The concept of “Women in Refrigerators” has been around for a while now. Whether the shorthand of “fridging” would be considered “new” and “hipster,” I can’t say.

For the first round only, I’d love to see a rule (that I know would never, ever, ever happen) where a certain level of consecutive blowouts can end a series. Maybe make it exclusive for 1-seeds as a reward. If you win the first 2 games by 35+ each, let’s say, or the first 3 by 25+ each, that’s a wrap. We don’t need to…

Gotta review the Zapooter Film.

These two fucking deserve each other. If they could just meet up and somehow knock each other comatose then wake up months later as completely different people that would be for the best.

To that end, we don’t give Busta Rhymes enough credit for a critical assist on that career killing diss-parade that eventually involved seemingly everyone associated with Shady/Aftermath/G-Unit (and then, randomly, Busta).