Automatic For the People came out a year before Exile in Guyville and is about a decade older than most of the other work she cites as inspiration...wondering if she meant Fables of the Reconstruction. In any case this has got to be better than her last few albums

Thing is, it’s not really established that George has no job skills. Particularly in the first season he doesn’t come across as an unhireable mess, although he gradually becomes that over the course of the series run (a case of mild Flanderization, I’d say.)

Pete Townshend looked cool as shit because he could actually lift the damn thing over his head, give it a few royal smashes, then finish it off by planting it in Keith Moon’s kick drum. Phoebe Bridgers looked like your grandma trying to swat ants away with a comically misshapen stick

The amount of people here trying to have totally serious opinions on people they think were offended by the guitar smashing absolutely baffles me

It does get old after a while.

Nice of X to give ya some extra lead time to write this obit

In fairness, whiny Gen-xers didn’t care that a guitar was destroyed; more that she looked silly trying to swing it, which is an indisputably fair description. 

charlene yi an opportunist who wants relevancy now ive heard everything

I like it a lot, and I don’t think any network show came close to treating 80s youth culture as sincerely as Square Pegs did, but it would have really found its groove with a second season. It needed to pare down the ensemble cast a bit and rely much less on the ‘uncool kids scheme to be popular’ plots, but it was on…

FWIW it’s worth reading the comments to that linked AV Club article, where Tracy Nelson and the dude who played Vinnie show up to strongly deny the drugs/sex rumors.

I’d say it is because Democrats never entirely overlooked it: Chappaquiddick stayed with Kennedy his entire career and derailed his presidential ambitions. It wasn’t until the 1990s, after Kennedy had established himself as the ‘liberal lion’ of the senate that some of the stink came off. 

Seriously, where is Cancel Culture when we need it most?

It’s referred to in the article, but the moment in the doc when they linger on The Kansas City Star’s style guide is astonishing; like a skeleton key to Hemingway’s style. I can’t imagine the house styles of pop-culture content farms is going to generate any great literature

Yeah I’m buying that, though (drawing from other comments here) I think the intent was more to try to ensure that Diesel and The Rock look like they’re the same height. 

One one hand, I don’t think it’s green-screened; if they couldn’t stand one another when it was time for this scene I imagine they would have filmed each actor separately and edited the scene together with reverse shots and stand-ins.

The dialogue was certainly green screened, it’s terrible

I sincerely admire and envy your optimism.

To be fair, I was wanting some late 80s/early 90s SNL recently and I was kinda surprised that Jackson had a lot more range than ‘dumb blonde’. I think her hard-right turn has actually kind of eclipsed her SNL work, which on the whole was pretty good.

Welp this was always going to devolve into YASS KWEEEEN fantasia and I guess here we are. Looking forward to loads of Mossface and 80s needledrops

Where’s Firefly