"And remember, if you are dissatisfied with your hoverboard in any way you can go eat a dick!"

Calling it "hate" misses the mark, IMO. Disney is selling pure, unadulterated joy and innocence in an immersive experience that any artist can only dream of. It's one of the most widely shared cultural experiences out there. So co-opting that experience and fucking it up is a simple formula for instant artistic…

Heh, yeah this is journalism 101, the Times does it at least once a week. It would be nice if they could just run an item that says "We missed or otherwise underestimated this scoop, here is the basic story a day late. You know, in case you live under a rock."

It drives me nuts that those tv commercials with Rasheeda Jones cast an Amy Poehler stand-in. OK, sure, few people actually care enough about Rasheeda by herself to switch to Verizon or whatever-the-hell company it is, but vaguely pretending to mimic the show seems lame.

Mars Needs Guitars, Come and Trip It, Space Is The Place, Emotional Malfunction…

But you should still feel like a bit of an asshole for not getting the reference.

Some talking head on the news tonight said that "analysts say they are not surprised that Trump's supporters are standing by him." I thought that was funny, because I imagined a political scientist standing there and saying "basically, these people are all morons in the first place."

It all springs from one primordial ancestor, who they call Selfish Gene. He was kind of a dick.

Maybe he was just trying to invent some sort of "sisterhood of the traveling postcard" type of thing.

Yeah, I didn't see that as a serious critique of the performance as much as empty pontificating from the judges, who are paid to say stuff.

To be fair, if she is making a documentary on an enemy of the state, it is reasonable to think that she might have information that the government would want.

Yeah sometimes they have a great concept and just blow the execution completely. And returning to the same themes over and over gets repetitive (not unlike Key & Peele, who sometimes seem to be going back to the same well in every other episode.)

But Apatow never cuts anything out! His movies are interminable! How bad could that scene possibly have been?

sure, send me $20 and a SASE

We may go see Trainwreck on its opening night, in order to find out if our dog is in it.

I am reading this as "Yeah, SORRY, that was unneceSSARily sarCASTic of me!"

A go-girl pee funnel?

Oh sure, but this shows that such a thing is actually possible. If the next TMBG were doing dial-a-song on youtube, for example, they could possibly do well. My general argument would be that maybe these complaining geezers are just used to the old media way of doing things and aren't willing or able to actually go…

No, it is actually three different shovels, of different lengths! The same guy dropped all three. Of course it's still lame, though, because he is fully aware of the differing lengths, and refers to them as his collection of "musical shovels." So I think he was planning this.

I was just reading one of those "old music industry pro rants about spotify" stories today, and as always the message was that digital media doesn't pay content creators anything. This story is an interesting counterexample.