I liked the “Last Chance to Change Your Mind” sign.  They really should have that on highway 40 heading east through downtown instead of the “Last Missouri Exit” sign.  If you miss that exit, you’re entering Sauget/despair.

I really appreciated that scene, as a former St. Louisan. In real life, there is a sign in the part of downtown STL that is shown in that scene that reads “Last Missouri Exit.” If you miss this exit, you have to figure out how to do a u-turn in the post-industrial apocalypse zone of East St. Louis. So it really is an…

Something in that story doesn’t add up.  If the neighbor lady didn’t put it together that the husband was the house shitter until she heard his scream at Thanksgiving dinner, how would neighbor lady know at the dropoff Thanksgiving night that the husband had a key from the landlord?

You’re right, that’s a much more 2010s backsplash. But overall I love the little period details the show throws in. As the episode opens, in the background of the hospital, one nurse/orderly is explaining what fantasy football is to the other.

My 1L evidence professor showed us the scene where Marissa Tomei takes the stand and breaks down the differences in transmissions and skid marks of two types of cars.  I don’t think the movie has to be the most accurate depiction of evidence or procedure in film history, but on the whole it was well done.

And the Simpsons went out on top after the 10 greatest seasons of animated comedy in American history.

Let’s all have another Orange Julius
Thick syrup standing in lines
The malls are the soon-to-be ghost towns
Well, so long, farewell, goodby

Kinda like Up, but without the balloons?

The best thing about Goodnight Gorilla is having your kid try to find the red balloon hidden on each page, which progressively gets tinier as the book goes on.

There’s a book in the Harry the Dog series where the family lives next door to a lady who likes singing, and the whole book is just Harry trying to drown her out with other noise, until everyone celebrates when she’s shipped off on a boat to a foreign land.  It sucks.

Mike Mulligan was my favorite as a kid, mainly for its illustrations of skyscraper, canal, and highway construction.  As an adult, I appreciate its themes of adaptiveness and my hidden suspicion is that it contains a subtle critique of the racism of the era (ie, the “No Steamshovels Wanted” sign is meant to evoke the…

Ha, I got a copy of that one as the Chic Fil A kid’s meal prize and thought “wait, this place must hate unions, right?”

“Love You Forever” became unreadable to me when I learned the song (I love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be) was what the author sang to himself in his head after he and his wife’s second stillborn birth.  Nope, I can’t explain to my kids why I’m crying before page 1.

It’s infectious in all the right ways, just a clever, sing-alongy power pop jam.

I watched it live with a gf who was an Astros fan.  We...we no longer dated much longer after that.

The thing is...during his prime, that line isn’t that far above his annual line.

Well written.  I have come to terms with the fact that I will never get to watch a pure hitter as great as Pujols again.  I’m ok with with that; he was that good.

I grew up in St. Louis so of course I have many nostalgia-based reasons to miss it.  But god fucking dammit, St. Louisans trip over their own dicks to make the place unloveable.

Yes.  Deadspin fucked up the very first sentence.  Not like it’s a sports blog or something, so no reason to get that right.

I’ve spent 30 hours watching Westworld when I should’ve just paid $3.99 to watch Spaceballs again.