"Assembly-line pop is kewl yay! B-!"

"Our webs are down, sir. We can't log in!"

You really are an impressive idiot, you know that? Like, I legit doff my cap to you, sir - this is some next-level stupidity.

The lack of skirts/dresses + combat boots is #1 on my "what's wrong with America today" list.

This is depressing, because I totally support better depictions of a diversity of body types and I know this is coming from a place of good intentions, but this is the kind of thing that just falls into self-parody. It's OK to have stylized art in cartoons.

I like NMH and this album well enough, and respect them/it, but they're my least-favorite band from the Elephant 6 universe, so the massive cult around them and the album has always bemused me.

A Starfleet legal team played a small part in some of the "Vanguard" series of books, which were quite good, though of course not official canon.

I sat through that clip stone-faced, and the only reaction I could think of at the end was an exasperated Krusty-style "What the hell was THAT?!"

The TV edit I saw made that line so strange:

There are few things I tire of more quickly than hearing a bunch of gamers and tech people ranting about how VR is the next big thing and THIS TIME it's really going to stick and it's SO GOOD YOU GUYS.

It depends on the celebrity, I guess. Since I've been in bands these last few years, I've had the opportunity to meet some indie musical heroes of mine, and it's been pretty dang cool. But I am conscious to treat them like people, have real conversations with them (not just fanboy-out), and be respectful of their…

What the fuck even is this anymore

Yeah, I do not get this "OMG WE MUST TAKE PHOTO" compulsion at all. As an indie musician, I've had the opportunity to cross paths with and interact with a decent number of my musical heroes in the last few years, and I would feel really icky trying to take photos all the time.

I actually kind of liked early Rooney. This new one just sounds very generic.

The more I've seen people freak out over the last DDG album and her new solo stuff, the more I've felt like I'm either completely out of touch or living in a fever dream (I know, commentariat - it can be two things, etc.).

To be fair, it's not so much "somebody who isn't a white guy did a thing" to some readers - it's more "let's write multiple think pieces about multi-gazillionaire inescapable pop musicians that 99% of other sites are covering instead of writing about less-mainstream artists," which used to be what some of us enjoyed…

I have nothing much to add except to say how much I loooooove "The Commander Thinks Aloud," and how it makes me misty-eyed nearly every time I listen to it. (I am also a big Long Winters fan in general.)

Sometime between the original and the new one, Earth seems to have been afflicted by another invasion: overly blue & orange color grading.

Hold up…as a vegan who just goes about his life not using animal products and not bothering anybody about it or them not agreeing, I find it kind of fucking irritating for my dietary decision to be called out as some kind of "self-righteous" fundamentalism or to get treated as some kind of freak, so maybe I can…

I've never understood why they sometimes use those spellings - it seems remarkably goofy and stupid, even for Star Wars and its long lineage of goofy, stupid names.