There’s things that can be done.

So glad to see an actress resisting the industry pressures to keep working, and instead rely on medical wisdom to care for her body. Now to take a gigantic sip of coffee as I google this rising star

Still an ugly SUV. Beside, 355hp? Weight: guessing 2 tons?

She also made 13th recently which was excellent. I think people spend too much time blaming directors and not enough time blaming these pieced together, 5 credited writer, awful scripts. Modern blockbuster writing is pretty lackluster for the most part, and especially within the confines of a bug machine, a director…

A lot of people do draw that connection re: mythology and superheroes. And, in a weird way, I do think you get some of that with superheroes in comic books, rather than movies. Because in comic books you don’t have time and movement, you have to move the focus other places, so despite the fact that they can (and often…

Ignoring most of this, I have to wonder if you can really call Greek dramas proof of concept when you’re taking something that was successful in a completely separate culture, for a completely separate audience, in a completely separate medium, with completely different expectations for what the production should…

I won’t deny that as the director Zhao ultimately has to take a lions share of the credit/blame for the final product. But when the flaws of the film are flaws that are common to the 20+ films of the franchise that preceded it, I think it’s not unreasonable to figure that the producers are playing a major role in…

it’s pretty funny that the fanboys think that marvel and the disney machine can never fail, only ever be failed by audiences and directors.

Madonna’s career has seen plenty of embarrassing and hilarious failures, but I think her (early to mid-career) discography deserves a revisit. She cranked out some genuinely great songs and was a real cultural force. I don’t know if there would be many who compare.

Utah is the painting in Florida's attic. Or vice versa. 

I’m especially confused because I’ve read the article 4 times now, and it seems to be saying that Pete Davidson is some kind of avatar for toxic masculinity and...I just don’t get that. When I think of the poster boy for toxic masculinity, I think of someone like Joe Rogan, not Pete Davidson.

It’s not just you.

“Even juicier, on Monday Kardashian arrived in a city in which Page Six suggests only one other man, Pete Davidson, lives for WSJ. Magazine’s 11th annual Innovator Awards at the Museum of Modern Art for which she is an honoree.”

The whole problem is that I was in gifted programs so I know plenty about Pete’s type. The smarmy, but quietly seething little turd who demands to have all of their worst takes taken seriously. Easily half of the boys in my class thought they were intellectual giants who were owed the world. If I’m bitter about…

Yep.

This dude...he gives me the fucking creeps. Some uncanny valley crossbreed between Patrick Bateman and Tracy Flick, wants to be an Obamaesque figure and tries to channel that rhetorical skill and pop cultural appeal but just fundamentally cannot pull it off. What’s weirder and more unnerving than the idea that his…

Customer: “But I made a reservation”
Dealer: “reservation was cancelled, so we can make more money”

I’m bummed that this has been my read on him as well. I struggle to find authenticity, and from the quotes above about not wanting to show emotion...I don’t know. It just doesn’t feel like he gets it. People don’t need him to be emotional. They need him to display empathy. And I’ve never really got that from him.…

I really don’t like Pete as he just seems like an empty suit that just wants the next office. We need a real leader with real values that will help guide them through the fraught times we find ourselves. Basing every decision on whatever is going to help your short term polling numbers will not work.

I appreciate that Pete is on “my side” but I have not been able to stand him from the start. The fawning celebrity endorsements that swear he’s some kind of genius really couldn’t hold up for me under his brilliant logic of “we can’t give poor kids free college because rich kids might get free college!”