I find this counternarrative that the tremendous self-own that was all the reputation snakes was somehow successful to be baffling.  The upshot was that Ms. Swift eventually emerged as somebody the world has come to grips with as having the flaws of most normal humans...but the totally incoherent way she went about it…

The counter to the Mitch McConnells of the world is that this is “accountability culture” not “cancel culture”...but I am hard-pressed to see that when this is the second time that several years later Ms. Yi has transparently tried to intentionally destroy somebody’s career.

I soured on St. Vincent when she fucked up Sleater-Kinney (and charged full price for concerts that were only her and a guitar)...so I’m not sure if now I just dislike her and everything she does but...did “Pay Your Way In Pain” sound like a Betty Davis rip-off? And was it a bit offensive to have her dressed like a…

I would hate to harp on it, but you can’t expect all members of the viewing public to watch a video to learn how to pronounce your name. Now, if you are an athlete it is a little different, announcers can take a minute, it’s their job. But if you are an actor...appealing to the public...there is a legitimate value to…

I suppose I have my own things I am into that some people rly are not...but there are certain ones that I really am like...why

at least there they are on FB and not, like, on a pop-culture website that has written like 20 articles on Amber Ruffin because she is the bee’s knees.

sometimes I say the same thing about musicians: think about how successful you have to be as an actor or musician to make $100k/year, what you might make as a moderately successful lawyer. As a musician...in a band with three other people...your band would have to make $400,000 (before or after road expenses?). Once…

RIP

I just left it blank on purpose

I think there is an interesting article to be written about the intersection of “reclaiming one’s name” which is very very serious and important, and “spelling is supposed to tell me how to pronounce your name without embarrassing myself” which, when you are an actor in front of the public...has a value.  I was really…

Luc as Till has had as rough a go as you can have while working steadily in leads and featured roles. He played Havok in X-Men...but they totally changed the character and then got rid of him, Havok was a HUGE part of the 90s X-Men. He starred in “Monster Trucks” with Jane Levy and Samara Weaving...and it looked so…

but he’s such a nice clean young man

I think this was a great idea, it was a way for HBO to compete with Disney+ which is just out of control popular as a streaming service, huge free publicity also because of how controversial the decision is, but things are not going to be back to “normal” as soon as people think. Even if we vaccinate kids down to 2 so…

kind of hilarious, actually, because then you’ll wind up with a packed house at the boutique indie and an empty house at Kong, too risky! :)

it was pretty dope of them to release Soul for no extra charge

“What’s Google? Sounds boring!”

I was going to say “go back to EW” but Amber Ruffin is reported on by EW, so this guy is just a ____

I was at a thing once where there was a guy who was a human carpet and you could step on him. This girl I knew walked on him and was like “that was fun!” I was like “...you do know that was sexual, right?” It really hadn’t occurred to her and then she was grossed out. The carpet guy didn’t do anything wrong, though.…

Why do I get the feeling that if I mentioned that Sope Dirisu’s name is a copyeditor’s nightmare that would now not be an acceptable thing to point out? I have no idea how to write his name correctly on Kinja, I will just note that in hebrew they often just remove the vowels.  Is his name pronounce Soh-pay…

this is the new thing on here, people being proud of their pop-cultural ignorance on a pop-culture website