Pixar the best support a Bay Area company can provide: a buggy AI screening out the most offensive emails, three people getting paid Bay Point dollars for an Emeryville job reading the emails, and a windowless closet with Inside Out playing on a loop when they need moral support.

I taught my son young that old black and white movies could be things of wonder, not something to be shunned. The result was that when we went to see Jackson’s version of Kong in the theatre when my son was eight, he had already seen the 1933 version a couple of times, and his verdict when we came out of the theatre…

When will establishment Democrats learn that you can’t have an effective party if you insist on playing purity politics and having a temper tantrum every time you don’t get your way?  This moderate circular firing squad is why Democrats keep losing. You have to think about the good of the party, and stop attacking…

Obligatory post of Mikkelsen’s best interview about the music video:

Seriously, I loved Firefly but after reading those plans I was like “ok, so maybe it’s good that this got the axe.” 

Prediction: The series goes on and on endlessly because one side has Australia and just has a ton of troops on New Guinea so the other side can’t take it.

There’s something so displeasing about people of colour playing the role of some of the most oppressive and bigoted people of to ever walk the earth. 

All the EVE Online posts are basically missives from the front. I’m not interested in playing the game, but they are very interesting to read.

Where last year’s Good Omens inelegantly translated Pratchett’s light and sardonic prose to the screen by having Frances McDormand literally read the novel to the audience

For a game called ‘Cyberpunk’ it’s one of the most ironic products you could dream up; Abuse of workers and crunch creates a buggy mess; product ships as a buggy mess; who takes the blame? Those workers.

Stuffed to the brim with stereotypes that prey on minority groups and hurling them into the lime light for both…

In high school, I lived in a farm house built in the early 1700s. The farm had been out of use for a long time but the house was original. We had fallen on some tough times financially and living there seemed like a dream come true, even though the place was in pretty rough shape.

I’ve got one I call “Old Gray Thing” that I always forget to post. It was a paranormal encounter but I’m still not sure what exactly it was, and I’ve always been curious if anyone else has seen one too. I’m doxxing myself if anyone I know reads this, but here goes nothing...

A little background before I get started…

What’s In the Bucket?

I’m surprised that with the number of articles devoted to this game by this site, the absolutely sublime combat gameplay still manages to get short shrift (i’m avoiding the spoilers, so apologies if you hid something appropriately gushy there). It gets a little bit of attention, but

Fun fact: Hades is the video game interpretation of noted Broadway hit Hadestown.

Jackie Daytona: Regular Human Bartender

Back when I was teaching high school algebra, I had a really good rapport with my students. Lots of joking, etc. One time, one of my students asked, “Why do you only tell dad jokes?” There were a few “ooOOOooo”s coming from other students so I couldn’t let this pass without a quick response.

I wish I had been there to see this but

I remember a prize-winning contribution to a prior incarnation of this category where a young guy was busily bonking his girlfriend in his car, and were interrupted by state troopers/policemen, only later the couple go a diner to have a post-coital meal and see the same cops, who raise their coffee cups in salute.