I love this. Chrissie Hynde covering Morrissey. It’s so beautiful. Funnily, the beginning especially, but throughout, it sounds a bit like a slowed down version of “Back on the Chain Gang”. It’s just lovely.

It’s supposed to be “..the Secret History of the Sixties”. I know one thing the kids aren’t doing these days is editing their blog posts.

It’s amazing, in the dark with your pupils dilated, the tiniest bit of light seems to set the room aglow.  I had a clock where the cursor constantly blinked, in the dark it was like a strobe. Had to tape that up too. 

I‘m with her on the white noise with the fans, for sleep. (Not the same as sleeping with fans, heh.) In Truth or Dare, she groggily talks about how her sleeping pill hasn’t worn off, but recently said she doesn’t take those anymore. But yeah, she has terrible insomnia, touring or not. A lot of her early Instagrams…

Great documentary!  

Michelle Goldberg wrote recently how de Blasio eliminated this sort of shaming in NYC schools, as well as kids being given free breakfast at their desks before class. No one anywhere wants him for Prez, but it was and remains a very admirable thing I didn’t know about.

Kevin Kruse is really great, always worth reading, and superb at  The Twitters. 

There’s a possibility- and it’s uncertain for sure- that he’s trying to speak to Republican voters who went for Trump and regret it. He’s reassuring them with this, “hey, R’s aren’t all bad” stuff, because they probably hate having their noses rubbed in their mistake, he’s making it okay to ditch Trump and vote D. …

Right, let’s get this out in the open. From your article: “Robinson’s own film career began promisingly enough, when he was cast as Benvolio in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet (1968). The Italian asked him to report to his apartment in Rome. “Within an hour he was hitting on me. He asked me – it’s the one line…

Bruce Robinson made a gigantic comedy of Zeffirelli’s alleged handsiness in Withnail & I. He wasn’t traumatized by it, he thought it was ferociously funny.

It was terrifically misguided. I only bought the first issue with Cindy C. on the cover, it was dull. It sold poorly but they burned through a shit-ton of money because no one could say no to JFK Jr.

Some writer (I think at NYMag?) said she far preferred Rebecca Romijn’s joie de vivre as Mystique over Jennifer Lawrence’s bland sulkiness. I have to agree. Romijn was gleeful in her murderousness, she made it fun.

“Nanny” was so creepy and malevolent. But I prefer her to all those actual kids on an actual movie set in Hollyweird, a far creepier danger.

I never perceived X-Men to be about a “boarding school” for very young children. Or even early teens. This isn’t The Facts of Life! I just find it weird, ick and unnecessary, the way the kids at Xavier’s school just get younger and ..uh, children. The X-Men aren’t supposed to be tiny kids, so this took a strange…

1. I dig the Guardian style slide-show, 2. Page 3 is awesome, 3.Clayton Cowles’ lettering looks Uncannily like Tom Orzechowski’s (a compliment), 4. “Jimmy pivoting to video while the rest of the print media continues its long slow, death spiral means..even after what he costs us, Jimmy Olsen is the only part of the…

Kitty’s youth was refreshing when she first appeared. The “New” X-Men back then seemed in their 20s (Wolverine indeterminately older). So it’s weird when I saw the trailer for this latest Dark Phoenix movie and a shot makes it seem that Xavier’s school is composed of 30 or 40 4th-graders.

The Information Superhighway! Give CompuServe a free try! 

“..he loves Smollett like a son and can’t shake the fact that “there’s some doubt” about what happened..”

I can’t believe that when Marvel creates a lame gimmicky character, they try and keep going with it for forty years.

I always hated Storm’s mohawk, and I hated when she lost her powers because she was my favorite character, and they changed her so hard. Making Storm “punk” in 1984 was ..late to that as a thing and a bummer and not like the character at all. Bonus suck points for that 1984 cover of “Lifedeath” where ok, a black…