I don’t disagree about the long downward trajectory of HST.
What makes it sad is that there were occasional flashes of good to great writing from him. In particular Bad Craziness in Palm Beach, about the Pulitzer divorce in `83, is some of my favorite writing by him. Those flashes were fewer and longer between as the…

Thanks for this.
I was in the Boy Scouts when I was a kid. A lot of the things I learned there turned out to be very very useful in life. These are the sorts of things I want my daughter to learn (how to tie a bowline, how to sharpen a knife, first aid basics) and think she might pick them up better with peers than…

I loved the old Undercover, some genuinely great stuff.

Pfft, White Box only newb.

(Seriously though. I vastly prefer 1st Ed AD&D)

I’ve never had such an odd reaction to a TV show as with Stranger Things. On the one hand, I was the same age as the characters in the show and can clearly remember being a shy, geeky 12 year old playing D&D in 1982. So part of me instantly connected to it. However, there’s another part of me that recognized I was…

Kinja is not about commenting it is about user data collection; that’s why you can only create a Kinja account with a FB login, twitter account or a google one. The commenting in Kinja is secondary, tracking who you are, what sites you visit, what articles you read so it can be sold on, that is primary.

not one Jackie Chan or Stephen Chow film?

This is sad, AV Club is now nothing more than another name on the Gawker banner at the top of the page.

You mean a UAT (User Acceptance and Testing) deployment?
Yes, that would have been nice

The account merge works even if it appears that the script fails.
The site *is* ugly and soulless though.

I had to create a burner gmail for this. It better be worth it