This will be tough, because the original is so unevenly hilarious and terrible, and that’s mostly due to its then-indieness and the casting. It’s got bumbling/charming Hugh Grant before that became an annoying shtick, it’s got all the amazing supporting characters- and then there’s Andie McDowell.

*applause*

Is it not actually called “the mountain thing”? Huh!

The “honorable man” thing kills me, it’s so unintentionally ironic.

Did none of these tools read Julius Caesar in high school?

“Clique”.

Men like Spacey have never heard the old adage “In vino veritas”.

Ugh. I think Cross is very funny in stuff that other people write, but based on his many statements about how he thinks “retarded people are fucking hilarious” to joke about, I’m willing to bet Yi has no memory issues on this.

But those are pretty broad terms, aren’t they? Using strokes of that sort, souldn’t these be “roccoco” (ornate, flowery, exaggerated floweriness)? Or judging from Wiley’s clear interest in Morris, “arts and crafts” in the Kelmscott style (patterned botanicals that render the natural geometric and uniform)? And is a…

Great piece, Stassa. This phenomenon of not creating a scene ties into broader issues we have in our culture with the very idea of victims and victimhood.

I saw the book illustration by Ivan Bilibin as a child and it terrified me.

“AAANH! AAAANH! Oh, it’s good to laugh.”

“Don’t you know you can fly?”

A metric crap-ton of fillers.

Seriously. Total car-wreck porn, about an actual person.

Danerys Targareyn> Daenerys Targaryen

Longtime lurker. Didn’t realize the site was moving over here- what a terrible development.

And here I was thinking, in all seriousness, “Damn, Taylor Hanson is looking well-preserved.”

The company, named after the biblical version of paradise where things weren’t as great as they seemed the food looks pretty good but you really shouldn’t eat it.

Plus, he phrases his tweet stating that allowing trans service “would” cost the military too much, which makes it sounds as though those thousands of current service members don’t exist.

This article constructs a pretty obvious straw man, so it’s pretty weak on critical thinking.