i think the idea that its called “Spanish flu” based on a misnomer (or specific misdirection to slander a group of people) is a fairly obscure fact, in context of naming 10 other diseases named after places of origin, I think it’s just one more throwaway to make his point. Yes, its wrong. No the other 9 or so are not.…

pshhh, Elliott Smith HATED the oscars too and he didn’t have to go complaining to everyone about it. He just managed to LOOK miserable, like he hated every moment of it, and then didn’t win, to boot.
That’s how a REAL rock star blows off his Oscar nom.

Great, I just boo’d myself.

oh man, they LOOOOOOVED this article and story on Breitbart.

Came for the Sterling Brown, staying for the Avett Brothers.

I will point out the inherent hypocrisy in the fact that most of us at AV Club are probably left-leaning who believe in prison reform and change, and yet we all laugh at Aunt Becky going to a place wherein she (fortunately? Unfortunately, according to the tone of the article?) won’t be brutally assaulted,…

I love James Ellroy.
loved American Tabloid.

also one of the hardest shows to find anywhere, today. 

Sit him down for a 1-2 of that and BRAWL IN CELL 99 for a real doozy. 

i may be paraphrasing, but it was essentially he found out she’d lied about how old she was when they’d met and he was kinda put off by it, though in fairness she was never under 18 when they went out- we met when she was an early admit to freshman college in NYC, at 17, but by the time they went out at all it was…

HAHAHA i was going to add “Next to James Ellroy...” but then I remembered the last 3 books I read by HIM and realized I enjoy Pollock more now, currently, then I do JE.

its nice to come back here to 2002 and see when Jeremy Renner was “relatively unknown” still.

do you have a HOMELAND style Paul Rudd thru the years wall chart going on somewhere in the basement?

awful, 43-yr old me recalls this so clearly. My 4th grade teacher was apparently a finalist in this teacher search- she’d met/knew McAuliffe and therefore our entire school was in an assembly watching (on 3 or 4 old tvs).

Dont forget Brock Pierce, “First Kid”, who is quite seriously spending millions to get on the ballot and is already on in 15 states. He’ll suckle away some of Joe’s votes, that’s guaranteed, and he’s probably being paid/compensated to do so to help Trump. He’s a complicit, money-obsessed conman too.

what a crazy amount of time and money to sink into a project, based on ONE SINGLE PERSONS REPUTATION, CAREER and PLACE in society.

in fairness this is set in the most rural, backwoods holler of deep Kentucky/gothic south that the accents ARE almost cartoonishly bad. But if you’ve ever been to them thar parts back then, they do speak somewhat...thick.

Im so excited by this, and have been waiting since 2012 for it. I LOVE Donald Ray Pollock, he’s possibly my favorite living author. If you don’t have the pleasure yet, go read this, Knockemstiff and then the best of the bunch, THE HEAVENLY TABLE, which is my dream project. (I want so badly to adapt it into a one…

SPOILER ALERT:
She came back to the FRESH PRINCE reunion in the future, the year 2020, a time when America was ravaged by a pandemic, we all wore masks and worked from home, and Donald Trump was president of the country.

I drive lyft/Uber and am a white guy (43) on Long Island, NY. I’ve been pulled over 4x in 2 yrs of driving, and all 4 times had a carful of young and/or POC people in my vehicle, 3/4 of the times they were coming from bars/parties and excessively intoxicated. Before I pulled over, I lowered the radio and explained to…