"Actually Romantic" by Taylor Swift is the best song Everclear never wrote. (Though the bridge sounds a bit more like The Toadies to me.) (Yes, I am old.)

I wish I could bottle this expression of pure joy from Michael B. Jordan in Sinners

Director: So in this movie, we need something to symbolize that the President is causing great harm to the nation Writer: What if we had him just completely wreck a whole wing of the White House Director: A little too on the nose, don't you think?

This is an actual passage from Paradise Lost, and I think John Milton wants to wish everyone a Happy Pride: "[T]he crested cock whose clarion sounds the silent hours and th’ other whose gay train adorns him colored with the florid hue of rainbows and starry eyes."

Wife: I've reached the point where I don't know any of the people hosting SNL Me: Who's hosting next? Wife: Miles Teller Me: You know Miles Teller My Wife: Of Penn and Teller?

The Bun Also Rises

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

Final rankings for Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse: 1. Chasing Amy 2. Dogma 3. Clerks 4. Clerks II 5. Clerks: The Animated Series 6. Jay and Silent Bob Reboot 7. Clerks III 8. Mallrats 9. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 10. Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie 1-5 = good 6-10 = mixed/bad

Controversial #StarTrek opinion: Worf was a hesitant but ultimately good and accepting father to Alexander in TNG. It's DS9 that turned him into a terrible dad.

"It's sixteen miles to the promise land, And I promise you, I'm doing the best I can."

A cover band but they're all doctors Med Zeppelin

Hey kids You're gonna feel scared. That's okay. I was scared too. But you're also gonna feel joy. A joy so big you're gonna wonder if you'd ever really felt joy before. It'll make you wonder what other beautiful things are hiding in your heart. And you'll find those too. #letters4transkids

This made my day. Turns out my essay on 'Groundhog Day' for Consequence is cited multiple times on the movie's Wikipedia page, and I'm not sure I've ever felt so honored. Still proud of that one. Shout out to Matt Melis for greenlighting it and @lizshannonmiller.com for running it again!

The funny thing about Paradise Lost is that its version of Satan's fall is essentially just God as the owner of a company who announces that his son is going to be everyone's new supervisor, with Satan as a disgruntled employee who grumbles that "I should be in charge rather than that nepo baby!"

Gone Girl with the Wind

What better way is there to celebrate Latino Heritage Month than with a Jack Skellington mug?

My sharpest memory from that day is seeing my math teacher, as jovial and light-hearted an educator as there ever was, weeping in front of the whole school assembly over how many lives had been lost.

TV Serendipity Is: accidentally watching wild west pastiches from both Tiny Toon Adventures and Rick and Morty in the same day. #TVSerendipity

I blanched at the Vulcan bioessentialism too, and Osler makes a ton of good points here. But I also think the writers probably just wanted to do a wacky Vulcan episode and didn't think too hard about the implications. I saw the serum as a means to an end, not necessarily indicative of a broader POV.

NBC's graphic for Derrick Henry scoring a touchdown has a little raven flapping its wings and carrying a football helmet in its talons. This is the kind of silly nonsense the #NFL needs more of, I say!

The Gorn Identity

We went down a rabbit hole of how the L.A. Rams got their name, and the answer is an amusing combination of pearl-clutching, laziness, and saving money on printing.

Surely I'm not the first person to think of this, but the idea tickled my funny bone and had to be done.

Surely I'm not the first person to think of this, but the idea tickled my funny bone and had to be done.

Me: Time to take my mind off the world's troubles with some old cartoons. Tiny Toons: Here's a 1991 episode about Climate Change where Babs and Buster square off against an evil polluting billionaire named "Ronald Grump" who heartlessly blights the land while declaring "Your morality is a bore."

🎶I WANT SOMETHING ELSE TO GET ME THRU THIS SYRIL-CHARMED KINDA LIFE BAY-BAY, BAY-BAY [sound on, andor spoilers, vid by me]

Ultimately, I explained it as "Imagine that Taylor Swift announced she had left Travis Kelce and was engaged to Matty Healy instead," and she got it instantly.

Why must my TV and football worlds combine like this, Lord?

Wake me up when the Jones family isn't running the Cowboys anymore.

Can I just say as someone who grew up in a small Southern US town and never once went to a Cracker Barrel, that arguing about the logo is as alien to me as an Australian having opinions on Outback Steakhouse.

Dante: Heaven is incomprehensible to man, but you'd see angels as countless spheres of light spinning in an intricate dance high above the Earth Milton: Heaven is incomprehensible to man, but here's all the angels having snack time after meeting Jesus and then falling asleep in a cluster of gazebos

Star Trek? You mean Michael DornHub?

The biggest difference between Clerks 2 and Clerks 1 is simple -- joy. In the original film, the Quick Stop is bastion of soul-sucking drudgery Dante can't escape from. In the sequel, his workaday existence with his friends is filled with profound and abundant joy he can't tear himself away from.

Gonna tell my kids this was Haim.

"I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING STRANGERS ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING TRAIN"

It's a weird year to be a Cowboys fan. The team has a new coach, 2 of the best players in the league, and reason for hope. But the new leadership feels like more of the same, and the real problem is in the front office and not going anywhere, so it's hard to gin up much excitement for the season.

What a joy it is, in the year of our lord 2025, to see Carol Kane in both Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, in the same week.

Me after eating Great Value Radioactive Shrimp 🍤 🦸🏽‍♂️

Well, I saw the new Superman movie.

Ruin a movie: Star Trek: The Lotion Fixture

The Matrix (1999, dir. Lana & Lilly Wachowski)

Two great men of science

Nothing sums up the Kingdom Hearts series better or more succinctly than this picture,

Nothing sums up the Kingdom Hearts series better or more succinctly than this picture,

Slightly diminish a band: wink-172

I could appreciate The Divine Comedy intellectually, but it often felt too convoluted and inaccessible to really move me. But whether it's the prose or the characters or the ideas in play, Paradise Lost feels so much more human and reachable for me, to where I feel the beauty and pity of it in turn.

Me, jolting awake in the middle of the night: I've got to write this idea down! We could make millions! Me in the morning: stapler-based camera???

So the comic book franchises now have credits at the end which list the creators of characters used in the movie/show. I’ve been thinking about this in terms of other, non-comics franchises… as I watch Star Trek episodes featuring a character created by my late friend Bob Bloch half a century ago…