Right? These people are the worst. Oh, and not royalty, but I love the pretension too of Nicky Hilton marrying a Rothschild “at” Kensington Palace. But it was the Orangerie annex that they rent out to anyone who can afford it, the actual royals were quite vamoose, nothing to do with it!  Don’t know her, rather. Lol!…

Oh god, yes. Worse still is when Americans marry in.  Gag me with “Her Serene Highness, Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece.”  Fuck you, she’s a Spence girl!  Unbelievable pretensions. But hey, look at the first name her parents gave her, ugh. 

Well, no one is saying Esquire had too much integrity to publish it. The authors of the piece say the top business owners at Hearst nixed it for completely unexplained reasons. Not the same thing. Yes, The Atlantic has always been more high-minded a publication (interestingly funded by Steve Jobs’ widow now). …

“someone who spent half his life in the 20th century,”- Hm, over half my life was spent there too so far, and we still have paper records of ourselves in this century. (Believe me, just did a paperwork chore the gov will have forever.)

Nah, you’re still awful.   :P

Okay. But she was essentially gone and fired from The Pixies from 1990-2004, due to personal and professional friction with Black Francis, and it’s weird to omit her entire star-making career with the Breeders (and the one-off gem album from The Amps). Hooking up again for a lucrative tour with The Pixies doesn’t…

Just me I’m sure, but I hate that dreckish song. Schmaltzy and overblown. 

Paz Lenchantin, who in 2016 replaced Kim Deal as the band’s full-time bassist.

AKA, “If I Did it”.

Jonas Mekas, Titan of underground film-making, has died aged 96

You don’t seem insensitive, just feeling the need to vent and it’s good you did.  Sounds like a tough situation and you have my sympathy.  I think Ron Swanson’s advice is good; you ought to look after your own self-care, talking to a therapist once in awhile could be good.  It sounds like you are doing your very best,…

Omg, completely forgot about that. (Since reading comics as a kid in the late 70s.). Christ. Never really cared for the “barbarian” side of comics fantasy, the Conan shit, but ate it up anyway. On the bright side, a Red Sonja movie directed by Bryan Singer should give us plenty to talk about. Ugh. It all seems so…

To be fair, most young actors are really dumb. So I guess I believe him.

I really, really want to see The Favourite, but especially Can You Forgive Me? Richard E Grant is a treasure, and his delight on Twitter today for being nominated was sweet.

I’ve only read great things about Ethan Hawke in First Reformed. I feel a bit bad for him to not be nominated. I haven’t seen Heriditary, but I’ve known for many years that Toni Collette is extraordinary. Saw her on Broadway once, live, and her energy blew my mind. And she did that, live, 8 days a week? Just…

They’re mostly tragic. But I completely agree with you. Utterly. 

I think that actually one might have to have grown up with Mister Rogers to really get it. For those of us of a certain age, the trailer alone panged hearts in a deep way, audiences of grown-ups weeping (me too at my computer). It’s such a deep-seated thing, I wouldn’t expect foreign audiences to get it, and if you…

I never, ever want to go back to eighth grade. Sounds like torture. Must pass on this film.

SATC 2 was a humanitarian war crime.  I’m not kidding, they show it in ISIS training camps to remind them why they hate us, the decadent West .

This is a Stella Artois beer ad, with a vague, incidental charity message in there.