Visiting priest at church today, one who insisted on shouting all his prayers and homily, one who insisted on telling humorous anecdotes from his youth at the beginning of the service when we were all still standing up ( Read more... )

On Hulu, Fraggle Rock is sponsored by the US Army.

Think about that for a second: Fraggle Rock, the show created with the express purpose of bringing about world peace, the show that produced anti-war anthems such as this, the show that turned the World's Oldest Fraggle into an unflattering caricature of Donald Rumsfeld[*](possibly unintentionally) ( Read more... )

Was reading this book review in Entertainment Weekly, which included the following incomprehesible assertion:
"Told in pitch-perfect alternating voices - I could read a whole novel just about Luis - Rise is reminiscent of the divisive movie Crash. But McBride loves her characters well, and one feels her own sense of anguish as they hurtle toward ( Read more... )

Christine Brennan gave the game away ( Read more... )

Apparently someone started up a petition to try to change the results of the women's figure skating competition. This is HILARIOUS to me. Why bother having a competition at all? Let's just vote for whoever we think should get the medal! Suddenly the Winter Olympics are American Idol.[*](or the local equivalent)Hey, while we're at it, let's start a ( Read more... )

Apologies to Staind for co-opting their lyrics.

Dear Ashley Wagner:

Shut the fuck up, you insignificant, self-aggrandizing, pathetic little attention whore.[*](Actual headline: Wagner 'speechless' at ladies' free skate results. Oh, how I wish that were really true!) You are an embarrassment to the US figure skating program[*](Which is saying ( Read more... )

(Context.) (Context that might be watchable outside the US.)

Someone said that Sofia Vergara's voice is more annoying that Fran Drescher's, and I think that's unfair...to Fran Drescher. Sofia Vergara has the mitigating factor of the exotic foreign accent.

(By the way, YouTube, sometimes I watch interviews from Jimmy Kimmel when he interviews ( Read more... )

Hey, TV critics, do me a favor and please stop shilling The Middle. It is nowhere near as funny or as heartwarming as Modern Family, and constantly repeating tired talking points to the contrary is not going to make it so.

You know how The Middle is billed as "like your family, except funnier"? Well, I have news for all y'all: My family is ( Read more... )

Now listen to me, and try to understand me: Just because I'm interested in Muppets Most Wanted DOES NOT MEAN that I'm interested in watching videos of Ricky Gervais. I am interested in watching his interviews if AND ONLY IF he happens to be talking about Muppets.

Now, I understand why you were confused, because I DID watch two Muppets Most ( Read more... )

That's it. I'm not watching Once Upon A Time anymore. I said something similar at the end of last season, but this time I mean it. They killed the thing I loved most about it, so now I don't care about it anymore.

( Vaguely spoilerish )