I think that your mom and her ilk are an easy audience for a Blue Bloods prequel show set in the 80s. Frank is still a beat cop on the cusp of making detective. Grandpa is the current Commissioner. All of the adult offspring are still kids. They can even have a wife for Frank who will develop a terminal disease.…

My wife doesn’t like dramas(except Tracker)

It’s not just saving money, either. Using a vehicle until it’s truly worn out means less impact on the environment. It’s takes a lot of energy to extract materials, ship them around the world, and assemble them into a new vehicle. Avoiding the demand for new vehicles is a huge plus for the planet.

1998's A Man In Full, is similar to his barnburner of a debut, 1987's The Bonfire Of The Vanities

As I said, I don’t think that his SNL hosting job was some major tipping point, but I do think that it moved the needle for him. Those appearances on entertainment shows helped him out in terms of affability. And I think that Michaels has to answer for that, in the same sense that Fallon has to answer for his…

It didn’t solidify it, it modified it, helping to make him seem more relatable. And that goes a long way with an electorate that seems to want candidates that they can “have a beer with”. Like that’s a useful measure of whether someone is suitable to be President. In his years on The Apprentice he carefully crafted…

And Cruz was exaggerating, at that.

Given the general shrinkage that seems to happen to guys as they get older, unless he was wearing a new suit instead of one the suits he already had, it probably was an oversized suit.

Appearing on a well-known and respected show like SNL made Trump seem more approachable, like he wasn’t just an ivory tower “billionaire”. That was the persona he crafted while doing The Apprentice. Doing a pure entertainment show demonstrated that he was more of a “regular guy”, willing to take and make a joke. Of…

Yes, SNL incrementally assisted in the election of Trump. It was hardly the tipping point, but it did contribute to the image of Trump as some sort of person that was acceptable as a leader. Something that we now know to be untrue.

The problem isn’t crossing the double yellow. It’s the fact that the robo-cab continued in the wrong lane for multiple blocks. Crossing the yellow is an emergency maneuver that should be undone ASAP. The robo-cab did not do that.

My experience, though limited, is that there is an inverse relationship between an individual’s desire to be naked and anyone else’s interest in seeing them naked.

And yet last week we had the story here about the cops handling a wayward loaner vehicle by following the driver and holding him at gun point since they had been told the car was stolen. I guess the difference is that it was a dealership that wanted the car back. So a connected businessman, not just an ordinary…

I worked with a guy who went through layoffs at a previous job. They knew something was coming, so when they were called to a meeting late Friday they all figured the axe was falling. Comparing notes, however, they figured out that there were 2 simultaneous meetings in different conference rooms, but they could not ded…

Triumph the Comic Insult dog doing the dubbing into English or GTFO.

What’s the over/under on how many characters (other than Axel) that Murphy is going play while covered in prosthetics?

Yes, trying to sneak into an event with POTUS would be a terrible idea. Decades ago, I was with my family in Banff, staying at the same hotel where (then) Prince Charles was there for some event. My wife and sister-in-law tried to visit the floor the royals were on, and got summarily stopped by his guards. They…

I’m up for a movie where Richard Simmons plays the lead in a Pauly Shore biopic, though.

20 years ago I moved back to Chicagoland from southwestern MI. It took me about a week to realize that if I didn’t let things go while driving that I would suffer a heart attack or burst aneurysm within the month. I learned to stop treating my commute as a competition, and that someone getting ahead of me didn’t mean…

Ellen DeGeneres? Seriously? What the hell kind of film would that have been?