Amor: funny, I was using Zizek as an example of a writer who's too hard to understand, but you see him as a "popularizer" who's too easy to understand!  As if theory loses something precious, the more people can understand it.  It seems that for critical theory folks, obscurity is highly valued in its own right.  Does…

I can imagine the writers brainstorming: "Tiberius and Caesar really hate each other, but that's not good enough.  They've gotta really, really, really hate each other!  Ideas?"

For the record, in that earlier post, I didn't mean to say that I have great respect for Gladwell/Rushkoff.  I meant that I have zero respect for Zizek and his ilk…who are like Gladwell/Rushkoff insofar as they don't have much to say, but unlike them insofar as they're very hard to read, and therefore, it takes a lot…

I prefer popular writers like Rushkoff or Gladwell, who present "generalizations based largely on anecdotal evidence" in an easily readable form, to theory mandarins like Zizek, who likewise present mere generalizations based largely on anecdotal evidence, but in a form that's only intelligible to people who have…

The Star Wars Holiday Special definitely qualifies as a shitty miracle.  The Phantom Menace's shittiness makes me angry more than anything else…it's too painful to watch again!…but the Holiday Special's shittiness is a hoot.

Hitler watches The Room:
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Warren Oates, those are great picks…but have you seen Deafula?  An Ed Wood-level horror flick, done completely in sign language ("Signscope").  Truly a miracle of shittiness:

I'm intrigued by the trailer…I love that this is a vision from 1980 of what 1994 might be like.

Trivia: there's a BBC Kitchen Nightmares where Ramsay tries to help one of the stars of The Apple with his failing restaurant.  Apparently the guy hasn't done anything since The Apple…it killed his career.

Sgt. Pepper's used to be on HBO constantly in the early 80s, so I watched it a zillion times.  I loved it!…maybe it works on the level of shitty entertainment for kids…like Barney.

I also had to watch this in high school history class!  The teacher was otherwise smart and responsible, so I can't explain why he valued this movie so highly.

"To say that there is absolutely zero support…would be an understatement."

Since knee-jerk hatred of the Eagles among youngsters seems to stem from a desire to be more like the Dude, that makes me almost want to like the Eagles.  Almost.

When I was a kid, I probably would have said that everything that is not Twisted Sister is shit.  Part of me admires the purity of conviction behind this utterly stupid statement.

New Zealand goats are not especially crafty or sneaky.  That's a cruel racist stereotype.

There's also Once Were Warriors, and Eagle vs. Shark, and……that's all I've got.

Led by Tom Jones.

This story would be so much better if she also fucked Michael Biehn.

My dad's go-to celebrity story is meeting Rip Taylor in an elevator.  Lesson seems to be: if you're looking for celebrities, they're in the elevator.

When I'm in my underwear typing inane comments on the AV Club, I prefer to imagine that I'm having crazy adventures with a Bengal tiger on the high seas.  Isn't life more magical that way?