The idea of Salman Rushdie laughing at yet another joke about Joe being impotent because he's crippled unsettles me in ways I can't quite articulate.

One of the 200-odd people Salman Rushdie follows on Twitter is Seth MacFarlane, and I have no idea what to think about this.

One thing Bay could stand to learn from the He-Man movie, and shitty eighties and early nineties popcorn movies in general, is that it should be illegal for these things to be longer than an hour and a half.

Goddam, the above makes Fireflies by Owl City sound like Reign in Blood.

"You might be wondering, wolfman jr, how this relates to you…"

Holy god, are those real dawes lyrics?

Between this, and REM, and Steve Jobs, it's been the worst month for white middle class people since that time the New Yorker declared humus "over".

They were always my one example of a functioning rock couple. When I was in a band with a girlfriend years ago, we always said "hey, we can totally be in a band and be a couple, look at Thurston and Kim!"

I missed the movie when it was out, am planning to pick it up in the shops this weekend, but without having seen it, I think Joe Cornish actually made his case for the protagonists pretty eloquently:

It's actually pretty hard to snark at the level of awesometude.

Haha, I wonder if they'll put aside how much they totally fucking hate Paul Simon for dicking them over in light of how much money this tour is going to make?

Does it make no sense? Or does it make the most sense you ever heard in your latte-sipping, New Yorker cartoon-enjoying life?

His wikipedia page (for now) reads:

I find Spotify on my iPhone to be as much of a change for how I listen to music as the shift from a discman to an mp3 player.

Dude's pretty much guiding us all through the economic crisis right now.

I don't say this lightly, Sean, but "Ever since Jim Morrison died in 1971 of an acute case of the world being too full of squares" is the best thing you've ever written.

320, brah.

It is apparently a really big deal to a lot of people, can see why they don't do it. See the user reviews page for Pan's Labyrinth on Amazon.

“Drive was a motion picture that substantially contained extreme,
gratuitous, defamatory, dehumanizing racism directed against members of
the Jewish faith. Also, it was totally boring and nothing blew up even WHEN IT TOTALLY COULD HAVE YO."

He seems to be stroking his beard out of pure fear.