Jim Spanfeller is a boneheaded incompetent idiot and I have no idea why anyone would expect him to make a smart business decision.

Guess what, people in the 30s didn’t talk like noir archetypes either, it’s always been a narrative conceit.

I haven’t seen Brick yet (it’s on my incredibly long list) but I’d always thought that was the point; the contrast and friction between the modern high school setting and the old-school 1930s noir style and dialogue.

Please... just stop. Enough already.

funny to see you call what was so charming and unique about Brick “stupid”. to each his own, i guess.

Biden sincerely argued — to a black woman that just said she benefited from bussing — that civil rights should be left up to the states and not the federal government as if it was a local primary debate taking place in 1967 amongst Dixiecrats and/or Republicans in a rural Deep South district.

Why shouldn’t unlawful entry be a criminal offense?

Because it’s literally a line drawn on a map. That’s it. It’s not real.

I’ve never fully understood this. If enough people vote for the candidate that most aligns to their positions and values, THAT makes them electable. The side effect of our obsession with electability is that it creates an enthusiasm gap because we don’t pick the person we want, but the person we think might win.

It’s especially fun to watch Aubrey’s episode in sequence, because the last female guest they had was Halle Berre, who handled the wings like a fucking boss. Ate all of them, completely cleaning the bones, without drinking a thing, and never showed the slightest signs of distress. Maybe the most impressive round the…

Cool! You sound insufferable.

I feel like this needs to be a note attached to every single one of these workplace harassment stories:

Before this it was the barber?

I cannot say enough good things about Tamora Pierce; anyone who sees her books as aimed solely at or as “just” young adult literature is really leaving themselves at a disadvantage and missing out. While I’ve loved every book I’ve read by her I think the Protector of the Small series is a great one to start with, as…

They'll wait for a third season where a cliffhanger is somehow involved and cancel it.

So it’s ~20 minutes longer? Netflix says the regular version is 167 minutes (with credits?). This entire post is about how this version is longer and it’s never pointed out exactly how much so.

It’s not for nothing that Tarantino’s preferred version of the film came with an actual, no-fooling intermission.

Jorge Ramos is trying to help Donald Trump and Elliot Abrams kill Venezuelans.   

Can he answer for the edit where Freddie is confessing to Mary that he is Bi and it cuts from a profile to her turning around to see Freddie, then weirdly cutting back to Mary in profile before cutting to Freddie’s reaction to her statement?  When seeing this for the first time my wife laughed and said “For a second I…

Well this sucks. He is quite good on Riverdale as Fred, the only decent parent in town. Hope he gets better.