I loved Richard Roxburgh’s Dracula as well. I liked the evil sexy Dracula more than the version of Dracula Untold.

Yes, I think one of the biggest mistakes of Dracula Untold was the end scene in modern times. Completely unnecessary. If they’d left it alone, they could have done more Dracula alone movies in the centuries after the movie and between modern times, and still had him “team up” in some way (boggles the mind) with the…

Wisconsin was the first state that granted women the right to vote.

For me, I think the Amazon video interface is much harder to use than Netflix. I have both, but I am always annoyed when I tried to find something on Amazon Video. But I only signed up for Amazon Prime for the shipping savings.

We played the Nuclear Monopoly variant the last time, based on the rules for Nuclear Risk. Every third round, all the location pieces are mixed up and one is dealt out. Everything on that street is incinerated - houses, hotels and players. You place a penny on it to mark it. Anyone who lands there after the bomb is…

My favorite part of SDCC is the Masquerade.

Katherine, how could you tease with Sleepy Hollow better ending fan fiction and not include a link!?

Well, all those states in the U.S. are passing laws that you can only use the restroom that corresponds to the one on your birth certificate.

You’re wrong. Everyone I know who hasn’t bailed on the show watches for Daniel Dae Kim. I like Grace Park but hate the subplot they’ve saddled her character with.

To me, this isn’t shocking. When I was in high school, one of the other students passed out copies of the DoI rewritten into simpler English. She told me that I was the only one who recognized it. She was recreating an experiment by student activists in the sixties. In that experiment, people called the students…

See, to my mind the last paragraph is the only reason that this was an assault. They weren’t two people in a private situation. They are two people who were plied with alcohol and encouraged to engage in sexual activity by sober employees of a for-profit company hoping to gain greater profit.

Of course, these are my views. But to clarify, in our society, we rarely see serious discussion of sexual abuse of men. While it is less common, it does occur. We are so uncomfortable with the concept of men as victims of sexual assault that we treat prison rape as a joke instead of the serious crime that it is.

I’m with you on the problem with the ads. Jezebel and its related sites have been my go-to for years, but I can only visit now when I’m at my desktop. The websites don’t work on my tablet or phone because of the way the ads constantly refresh. I’m fine with whitelisting and not using adblocker, but not if I can’t…

I don’t have to like her to feel that she was victimized in this situation. My objection to her statements were in implying that she was the only victim. But, and this is a big but, I don’t know how someone would feel about being told that something bad had happened to them while they were blackout drunk with no…

I cannot emphasize this point enough - if this had been two private people, both of them past the legal threshhold of too drunk to consent, that would have been an entirely different situation than the one that occurred. We cannot ignore the fully sober production team that were standing only a few feet away. If…

I starred your post so far as I agree with you that he has handled this with more grace than the situation deserves. I disagree, however, with the concept that we should try to determine who is more victimized and more deserving of compassion in this situation. Even if he had been coming on to her, I would not feel…

I agree that seeing black men as criminals is definitely an issue in our culture. I don’t see that this changes my point that he is as much a victim in this situation as she is.

I think DeMaario being branded a rapist is a cultural problem.

Her role in the last movie wasn’t very interesting. She’s right that the women in the film are given very little to do. Which woman is supposed to be the best hacker in the world, but is regularly given computer instructions by a male character introduced to the movie series as a mechanic?

20 years or so ago, I watched a longform news story (something like 60 Minutes or Nightline) that profiled three people over 100 that were still in good health mentally and physically. One of them golfed every day. They separately listed that there were three things required for long life: