Little known historical fact: the Nazi book burnings were actually just renters fed up with having to move crates of books every year.

Movers are some of the few people that can get away with complaining directly about their job to the actual customers. I've had countless movers guilt me into moving furniture which I specifically hired movers to move. It's a remarkably awkward experience.

Oh no, so the scientists basically just wearing the equivalent of those tuxedo graphic tees??

Fine, strangle a scientist with one of his ridiculous ties. You get hands right away!

Ahh, the Gauss Rifle - not half bad against deathclaws if I recall correctly.

Happens in lots of states. I'm shocked how often I see the "Let's give Chicago to Wisconsin!" argument coming from down-staters in Illinois, not realizing how much business and culture that would rob us of, and also how much money downstaters get in farm subsidies.

That movie coming out in the same year, by the same director as The Conjuring notably increases that embarrassment.

I'm pretty goddamn forgiving of these kinds of movies (I very much like Sinister and Insidious, and the first 3 Paranormal Activity movies, for reference) and I couldn't stomach the sequel. The acting somehow got much worse, the scripting is horrendously messy. Did you like the family from the first? Notably, Patrick…

I too, was disturbed by the Sherwin Williams logo, and am disturbed to see it still show up in commercials. It's so ominous, so threatening. The red coloring is especially uncomfortable since I would more easily associate blue or tan or brown or something with paint than red. I think blood every time I see a red…

Night of the Comet would like to have words with you.

And an Islamophobe, which gains him a bit of cred with conservative types every so often.

I'll attack more than just the clicking tock, because I thought it was at least somewhat compelling when not totally obnoxious.

Yes, she surely would have protected her immediate safety and been good to her, and caring, and died for her, but what protection does Brienne have long-term? Ultimately, the Hound was right - nowhere is safe, especially for Arya.

Some asshat spoiled Tywin's death on twitter for me a few days ago, but I was so swept up in the rest of the episode, and notably Charles Dance's performance, that I forgot he was supposed to die. In that moment, I completely felt the desperation and power in his words, and totally supplanted the logical part of my…

I liked the character payoff moment last night where Mance Rayder (just realizing now that George named a wilding marauder/raider "Rayder") and Jon Snow commemorated the two soldiers with drinks, and Mance brings up that the guy came from an important giant family and shit, and Jon just replies that his guy was from a…

Editing-wise, it was nice that they separated that moment from the empowering flight from Westeros sequence. Emotionally, you can separate the Hound being abandoned with a young woman taking independence and have two great sequences that serve different purposes.

I don't think any of Leon was about any adult longing for a sex with a minor. It's about how lonely people develop relationships with one another, and how two people can view the same relationship in very different ways. Leon wants a daughter, Matilda wants a lover. Neither fully gets what they want, but they still…

Holy shit, Paul F. Tompkins would've really worked! He had a Comedy Central special in 2003 (according to a brief Google search), and that won some popular contest for "best standup special on CC presents" a few years later. I probably watched that special a dozen times around then. The problem is following a show…

What if some out-of-touch suit, in a desperate attempt to appeal to both men and women, made a transgender protagonist and accidentally did something amazing?

Big ups on the NOLF reference. I would kill for a modern sequel with half the humor and intelligence and style those games had. I'm particularly fond of the engine for the first game, later used in Aliens vs Predator 2, another one of my favorite games ever.