My inner 6-year-old boy’s favorite Antiques Road Show trope is the cherished salad or punch bowl that generations of the family have been pulling out for special occasions, which turns out to genuinely be a very old and valuable antique...

Exactly.

We come in all flavors and are not a monolith.

That was in the town my mom lives in!  Windsor. The whole town sort of knew he was a joke; that was crazy.

Even from the gif I knew it was fake.  The guy looks like a 20 year old under that grey wig

If you look closely you can see a smile on his face which indicates it was, in fact, not a real fall but one made in jest of the situation.

I find it weird that people take it all so seriously. It is only a group of people voting for what they like and if you don’t share their opinion it doesn’t make it wrong, just different.

I thought this article also did a good job of addressing that we need to acknowledge the complexity.https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2020/01/27/kobe-bryant-dont-shy-away-nba-legends-legacy/4584605002/

It’s not just “imperfect”. Nicole was most definitely murdered and there is absolutely no room for doubt that a crime occurred. Bryant’s contention (as it usually is in these cases) was that the victim wasn’t actually raped, which is easy enough to accept for people who are primed to believe a beloved celebrity over…

Just as Tom Brady’s obituary will mention Deflategate and Darryl Strawberry’s will cover his struggles with substance abuse, it is journalistic malpractice to sum up Bryant’s life and career without mentioning the credible rape allegations.

Thank you for this. The Root, which usually has excellent, insightful coverage, had an article listing Sonmez’s tweet as a “mistake”, alongside things like the BBC’s ‘In Memoriam’ montage featuring LeBron James, or an MSNBC reporter calling his team the Los Angeles [N-word]s. This post is much more nuanced and…

The better question is why does anyone care who is nominated for an Oscar for anything. It’s an advertising gimmick. 

Coincidentally proved my own point, there! I mispoke using that word and realized it a few minutes later and fixed it.  Eh, it’s Monday morning; I’d rather just grunt and have people know my meaning than talk!

I mean, his statement is technically correct. The problem is the best work got ignored this year. Fucking Todd Phillips got a nom over Greta Gerwig, Jennifer Kent, and Celine Sciamma. Lupita N’Yongo ignored in the acting categories, so ScarJo could get TWO noms.

Also, take THAT everyone who doesn’t consider Stephen King a writer.

Keith Richards? (Sorry, too easy, I know)

Good thing black people and women don’t suffer from the sinful weakness of vanity.

Yep. This.

The Oscars were created by the studio heads decades ago to appeal to actors sense of vanity, so they could get big flashy awards instead of more pay.

There’s no such thing as the best picture/director/etc. of the year. That’s not how art/culture works.