“The son who was learning drums” is a threat to any family, with or without aliens.

Oh christ, just reading the words “circle of life” just triggered some sort of VH1-PTSD seizure in me.

Sounds more like he’s got the Netflix Sandler Special: get a container ship full of money to do whatever you want, and it if it hits, great. If it doesn’t, oh well, it was just for streaming anyway.

I bet he was holding out for a free iPod, too.  Cheap bastards.

More like “it’s us (an industry startup) or Disney/Lucas/Marvel/ABC/FOX (the industry).”

Wow...I was really expecting to see something in that list that I really liked, but pretty much everything in there qualifies as “Hey, I remember that being OK!”. It’s definitely understandable why Hollywood really likes him, though.

I really appreciate a lot of what Vox does, but I feel like I need to take a Xanax before I read anything they publish on arts/culture.

George HW Bush would be a void in the popular imagination had Carvey not invented him.

Sans the excessive cold-open stunt casting, I’ve read this assessment every year for roughly thirty years.

Per Lorne’s own assessment, whatever SNL cast people watched in junior high or high school is The Best Cast Ever.

The polonium they use to weight them doesn’t come cheap.

The polonium they use to weight them doesn’t come cheap.

I’m happy that they found what to do with 3 or 4 vocalists on this record, and the solos and refrains rip. To me, the biggest downside is that they apparently have no clue how to end a song on this record. They play a few parts, then arbitrarily determine a place to stop.

I actually like Mastodon’s new record more than I have over the past few despite it’s pop sensibilities, but, wtf, Code Orange? I can’t fathom how they got voted onto the list. I know Forever scored some critical acclaim here and there, but they’re Not Safe For Grammys as hell. That their name was read on network TV…

“Trump is helping Pence by testing his faith in the Lord, by openly mocking said faith in public, to see if Pence will turn the other cheek. Thank you, Donald. Test passed, Mike.”

Yeah, but you need a reliable tie-breaking vote when the time comes. That Trump makes fun of Pence to his face (and he takes it) seems to suggest that he’d do as told. Cruz, on the hand, would likely turn a simple tie breaker into pointless, 47-hour filibuster just to bolster his screen time.

What the hell, you can’t engage in a little part-time human trafficking? You’re already on a boat, so half the work is done. How else are you supposed to supplement your income?

Eternal Sunshine has aged really poorly for me. It was one of those films that seemed amazing when I was 19, but now it just feels like a semi-novel trudge through unlikable-character-land.