There are times in one's life when a person thinks I should see that movie that's out now, the one about the Issues, the one that's very serious. That urge ought to be resisted at all costs. No matter the Issue, no matter how Serious, Futurama has already produced an episode tackling that selfsame topic. The work has been done for you. You need never leave the house again. Instead of: Her You should watch: I Dated…

Of course we are all Bender at heart. Many of us aspire to be Leela, but only Nicole can really pull it off. On my best days, I'm part Fry, with a little bit of the super-smart monkey from the Mars University episode in Season 2 who didn't fit in anywhere. But like most of you, who I really am when no one's watching...is Zoidberg. Friendless, insecure, yet with an innate dignity that cannot be…

This isn't much of a link, but I saw Neighbors this weekend and I laughed my stupid head off. Advertising works 1000% on me; I was at a film festival in April and every day I walked past two ten-story billboards for Neighbors and by the end of the weekend I kept thinking Man, I have got to see Neighbors , so keep making really tall billboards, marketing executives. I love Zac Efron without a trace of…

My little brother is a physicist who works as a fuel efficiency researcher ("It's like Google Maps, but for shipping companies, and we track typhoons and pirate attacks instead of traffic and road closures"). He's very tall and I call him The Boy and when we were little we had a club that only the two of us belonged to called "The Fun Club" (sorry, Laura). Nowadays I spend a lot of time asking…