Would you believe: Rachet and Clank: All 4 One for PS3? The local co-op lets me and Mrs. Willow or one of us and one of the Willowchildren to play together. The ‘teamwork’ perfect—it’s a game absolutely DESIGNED for players to yell, “Need a little help here!”—is great.

Sid from Toy Story is a *dead ringer* for about 2 or 3 boys I grew up with who ALL went on to be juvenile arsonists. They were the sort of kids who by high school were going to class in a surge-space trailer on the edge of the parking lot. 

I dunno, we had tickets as family to go see the road show of the Oscar Winning Animated Shorts last weekend. Needless to say that didn’t happen. We’ve taken our kid before and all loved it.

It’s a lot cheaper to keep workforces of ‘theoretical’ instructors on staff—just offices and desks—so I imagine it’s the preferred model for colleges too. None of that high-overhead business of maintaining theaters and sound mixing stations and editing studios—or, as you say, printing presses.

I live in a small rural county 5 hours outside New York City. We have one hospital with 100 beds. The director recently told the news that they have 25 ventilators.

Are ‘films’ even being made anymore or are there just human workforces laboring on behalf of a computer program at Disney headquarters with the next 40 Marvel and Star Wars films algorithmically scripted out already?

Maybe. It’s something where I imagine the longer you are out the world of professional theater/film/TV production, the more theoretical your knowledge becomes. 

Almost certainly the second one. I imagine Scorsese and Spike have better things to do than teach 4 to 8 credits a semester.

Are there even any of those or are they all nontenured, temporary ‘professors of practice’ who are teaching there because they don’t actually have the wherewithal to actually perform anything?

Standalone master’s degrees are sort of the sweet spot for universities as moneymakers: The students are adults so they pay more of their own tuition BUT they aren’t research students/PhD candidates so they don’t need to worry about getting them any sort of assistantships or other funding. It’s pure profit to sell…

Y’see like this is my complaint about NYC in general: Everyone with any sense needs to leave (and no I don’t live there myself and am not angling for others to leave to ‘I can enjoy it’; I didn’t enjoy it and left already, thanks). Are you in finance or television production? No? Then there is no longer any reason to…

Eh. I decided long ago that it wasn’t a very appealing character. New York City is like any given person from Lost. 

Any article on student debt horror stories always includes a mention of someone who went to NYU. They are like offender #1. I think they have--successfully--angled to capture a share of the ‘starry-eyed teen arrives in the big city’ market. 

Does Sandra Oh have any facial expressions beyond “just was or just is about to be hit with a large fish”?

Look, we’re fucking as hard as we can at my house OKAY?!

I mean, here’s the thing no one’s noticed yet: This week or early next, the United States will essentially enact a version of democratic socialism. And it will be broadly supported by both parties and signed into law by President Donald Trump. Will it meet every technical definition* of democratic socialism? No. But…

Someone’s got to say it: This video game was better than the movie it was based on. In fact, I can think of five or six Star Wars movies this is video game is better than . . .

I never liked the Legislated Arousal with Seven of Nine. Just the relentless, mandatory, “You WILL find her sexy, damn you! She is BLONDE and wears a LEOTARD, THAT EQUALS SEXY YOU SHITHEAD!”

Top photo: He shelves his books with the page-body facing outward?! THAT MONSTER!!

Wasn’t this a finding in the week or so just after 9/11? That *JUST* the grounding of all civilian aircraft and the consequent removal of their sun-reflective contrails was enough to cause a detectable temperature change over much of the northern hemisphere?