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We need more Power Rangers reboots

I don’t know if you nonparents know this, but at this very moment there are no less than six dozen Power Rangers iterations available on Netflix, including Power Rangers MegaForce, Power Rangers Super MegaForce, Power Rangers Dino Charge, Power Rangers Super Dino Charge, Power Rangers Ninja Steel, Power Rangers Into the Jungle, Power Rangers Mystic Force … I could keep going. Here is how we like to consume Power Rangers in my house: ALL AT…

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I overlooked the obvious Liz Lemonification of a recent life event

In recounting this weird thing to Nick the other day, he reminded me that it sounds an awful lot like the episode of 30 Rock where Liz reluctantly goes to her class reunion and “learns that she was not the quiet, lonely nerd she thought, but the angry bully everyone hated.” So. There’s that.

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Don’t kill books and don’t kill movies, you jerks!

I love Andrew Sullivan, y’all know I do, but his giddy anticipation of the fall of traditional media (newspapers, dead-tree books, movie theaters; the giddiness is my reading, of course; his actual posts on the matter are calm and diplomatic, for the most part) gets me all squirmy in the bad way and riled up. Not just because it will inevitably put me out of a job but because this notion of a democratized media…

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Confidential to Richard Belzer on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’

Shut up. Shut up shut up shut up SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUUUUUT UUUUUUUP SHUT YOUR FREAKING MOUTH HOLE YOUR STORIES ARE STUPID YOUR FACTS ARE WILDLY INACCURATE YOUR ANECDOTES ARE WORTHLESS YOUR EARS ARE PERFECTLY SHAPED LIKE SATELLITE DISHES ALL THE BETTER TO LISTEN WITH SO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET SOMEONE QUALIFIED TALK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHY CAN’T ACTORS EVER GET ENOUGH OF THE SOUND OF THEIR OWN STUPID VOICES

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Day 41/365: Comcastic … Er … To XFinity and Beyond?

For the first time in years, I’ve got cable. I’m only a couple of hours in and already I’m poised to punch some people. Like those jackbags on the commercials for the company that will give you cash for your unwanted gift cards. “If you’re like many people, you’ve got gift cards piling up unused in a kitchen drawer!” (Uh … no, I don’t.) Cut to ungrateful assholes bitching about all their unwanted gift cards…

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The picker paradox

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When I am queen of the world, I will have a courtesy-laugh intern

While watching an episode of Sons of Anarchy: Some character on the show: You know Whistler, right? Me: No, but I know Whistler’s mother! Manfred: [Silence] Me: Come ON! That joke works on TWO LEVELS.

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