Having spent many hours of my life with people who enjoy Tyler Perry movies (most, but not all of them black), I can say with absolute certainty that if they suddenly had the urge to come on this website and express their unfiltered opinions regarding these films and the social/moral themes contained therein, they…

Perry sucks, these movies are dumb, blabhblahblah…but this is a good point that no one is making. He isn't really doing anything except telling a certain audience what they want to hear. For all the pearl-clutching by white people on behalf of black people occurring here, there is (obviously) an audience for this shit…

This kind of nonsense is so ridiculous that it really is unfair to take Perry to task as a representative of any community, black, Christian, male, whatever. Nobody should have their worldview judged by these ridiculous, terrible movies made by this pandering hack.

I don't give a shit what anyone does in their personal life, but the fact that polyamory has become hip in the last five years amongst people who major in gender studies hardly indicates that there is some huge cultural shift occuring in favor of polyamory and that practicing or (gasp!) favorably portraying monogamy…

In Connecticut the history teachers are all Mayflower descendents and you never learn about anything that happened farther away than Rhode Island or later than 1770.

Dry the bread as much as possible and give it at least 4 hours soaking in custard before you cook it.

I'm usually opposed to meatless meals on principle, but ratatouille makes a great cold sandwich the next day on a baguette with some aioli.

A neat trick with butter which is actually the basis for a lot of restaurant cooking is that when you emulsify it into a liquid (whether stock, wine, or just pasta water) you basically reconsitute it into cream. Every Italian restaurant I've ever worked in emulsifies the butter into fucking cream and then adds…

Wouldn't late-era Earth Crisis and shit like that be something akin to vegan death metal? I'm admittedly biased against veganism in general, but that shit wasn't good.

I'm guessing either that either all the TV critics are mandated to participate in the roundtables regardless of their opinion of/interest in the shows, or that they know he doesn't like the stuff and intentionally bring him to offer a counterpoint. Either way, it's kind of silly how offended everyone gets when he…

I see the Law & Order similarities, and I think that element of the show is the part I like least…the idealistic speeches, frequent exposition, etc. Why SVU though? The Stabler character? I just find SVU so over-the-top and cheesy even for Law & Order.

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@avclub-4b97b5ad9d466de90e5d901c0557b21a:disqus The closest Carmela ever got to being sympathetic was when she told Tony he was going to hell, and even then she was full of shit and hypocritical. Corrine gave Vic the benefit of the doubt more than once, but Skylar and Carmela both played victim while enjoying the…

I'm pretty sure there's an appendix of LOTR which goes into great detail regarding the history, cultivation and use of the stuff hobbits smoke, to the point where the latin names of different varieties are given. It is explicity described as a type of tobacco if I remember correctly.

We can agree on that much.

When I was 15 I was scarred for life flipping through a bin of seven inches and stumbling upon "Suck My Dick While I Take a Shit" by Stool Sample. Not sure if that one was popular enough to make it to Google, but it's yet to be topped in my experience.

Singing "Oi" in a song these days is going to get you nothing from MRR except accusations of skinhead affiliation and a lengthy lecture about white privilege.

@avclub-2ec645358e08827f30c9b8cffa39bd52:disqus "Nothing Feels Good" is hard to listen to?

The Get Up Kids were not a particularly heavy band, but their first EP or that Coalesce split sounds like fucking Slayer compared to this shit.

Archers of Loaf doesn't fit into that sentence in any way, but the funny thing about Jets to Brazil and Promise Ring is how much they were slagged when their first albums came out for being slick and polished compared to their previous bands. It's so fucking weird to hear these (relatively) big budget Jade Tree emo…