At least Azealia Banks is (hugely) entertaining. I don’t know very much about Grimes except reading about her for the past four years in places like this trying to make her happen, and she’s still not happening. Azealia saying Grimes “smells like a roll of nickels” is way more interesting (and weirdly evocative)…

My pleasure! I really love the Eleanor house. But I’m also seeing some flaws now. As in, there’s no grand room for entertaining. There’s the study opening to the nice garden, and on the second floor there’s a dining room.. but there’s no real (large) living room. I think the pics make the place seem larger than it…

What’s weird is that they didn’t know that Iron Man was such a bankable character when they made the first film. Iron Man was always a second or third tier sort of benignly neglected character by Marvel Comics when I was growing up. 70s/80s. But they all were neglected, really. Marvel’s in-house ads seemed to…

I got a bit of a thrill when Chris Hayes interviewed AOC at the Albert Einstein Medical College in the Bronx, saying he was born there in 1978, because I was born there too, ten years earlier. Doesn’t mean much, I like Chris Hayes anyway, it was just extra like for him from me. While pantywaist Swanson frozen-food…

Ah, Huguette! Absolutely fascinating. Your fascination is a good one, gilded age domiciles and all. (I’m currently reading The House of Mirth, loving it.)

Don’t forget the pornographic rape stories Bernie wrote in the 70s when he was on welfare.

Kind of weird that by inference you’re describing black and Latina or non-white politicians as “flavorful”.

We can never forget how Joe Biden raped Anita Hill then sent her out on an ice floe, never to be heard from again.  Possibly the greatest victim of all time. 

I love you too, Ghost of Eazy E. I’ve been your defender and champion and admirer on the AV Club for maybe fifteen years. Twelve? Whatever. I’ve spoken up in the past when racist pices of shit attacked you and defamed you. Whatever. You think I’m a “fucking piece of shit” because I inexcusably went on and on in a…

This was amazing.  Haunting and very well-written. Glad you’re with us Mike, and thanks for the essay.  Won’t forget it soon. 

I wish I could stick around and talk to the nice good people yelling at me right now, but I stand by what I said. Kevin Smith is a boring suburban broheim who doesn’t read books, has no intellect, and his stupid movies promote being an ignorant asshole as a cool thing to be. Or rather he tried to send that message…

Around 1980, as a kid reading the epic story of Dark Phoenix, the complicated tangle of Jean Grey’s suicide on the Moon ( I was ten years old and didn’t even know what suicide WAS.) But Luke Skywalker seemed to do the same in that summer in The Empire Strikes Back. Summer of 1980, disco was still great on the radio,…

Well, I was young and idealistic then, a nubile young piece of hot flesh really aroused by Reagan’s revolution. I turned me on as a DC intern, so when Christopher Hitchens had his way with me on the balcony, while his wife and the creme de la creme of DC society were just on the other side of that glass door as…

I guess I could “enlighten you” about the techniques and artist forbears that a director could aspire to, other filmmakers from abroad trying to do difficult things. It’s not easy and I’m sorry you have such hostility about what I wrote, ok I just checked, and it’s about Kevin Smith’s many movies that suck. So many of…

I recently took a shit that could direct a film better than Kevin Smith ever could. But that would imply that Kevin Smith ever gave a shit anout the movies he inflcted upon us.

Yes. And holy shit, I really did GO ON there.  Sorry for my expansive blather and free-thinking monologue.  Typing aloud there, apologies for my long-windedness. 

I never stop being enchanted hearing about your vasectomy.  In my mind it becomes an elaborate Monty Python skit. 

So weird. Apple puts up a big worshipful picture of Spielberg because he’s reviving his shitty TV series Amazing Stories- didn’t that TV series bomb in the ratings in the 1980s? Yeah, because it was a shoddy piece of shit. Spielberg made some genius movies, but he also produced tons of dreck. Apple today was, “Y0u…

You would fit right in with the country upper classes, since many of them do behave like that. 

I mentioned in an earlier article about the Mitfords that I was fond of Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire.  Fun to say.