I don't think it's insincere so much as their attempt to reach out to their new mass audience. By that point they'd moved far, far beyond the artsy college types they'd started out playing for. Sure you can call it shmaltzy or generic and blame it on the wheelbarrows full of money they were raking in by that point,…

He most seems not to like it because of the cheesy music video which… I mean come on, it is an R.E.M. video.

Similar maybe, but "almost identical?" Hell no. They may both be products of the band's pop period and share a certain cheerful energy, but musically they're quite distinct. I mean, they've both got a catchy sing-a-long vibe, but the vocals in Stand are delivered in a clipped, almost aggressive style that bears little…

I may be a jaded crank most of the time, but I fucking love Shiny Happy People. I know it's absurdly, even obnoxiously chipper, but it's definitely a joke and never fails to amuse me. More than that though, it's got a killer melody, excellent voice work, and stellar composition.

"Tenouttaten" sounds like something that Godzilla would have to save Tokyo from. Anyway, my point is I read this article thinking it would give me some indication of whether I'd like these shows or not and it hasn't. To my mind it simply not a review. It's an essay about changing approaches to TV programming with a…

The comic is sort of the same way. I loved it at first, but at some point I just sort of lost interest and never came back.

Pretty sure the entire appeal of Axe Cop is it's ability to bring out the little kid in people. If all you can think while watching is "gosh this makes no sense," it's not for you.

Erik claims to have watched these shows, but I see no evidence of it. Virtually the entire article could have been written just by looking up the creators on wikipedia and maybe watching a couple promos. The notion that we'd actually like to know what these series are like/about rather than just how they came to be…

I absolutely despised  Freakazoid as a kid and don't really remember why. I wonder what Id think now.

Man, it took me two Ice and Fire books to figure out what the hell a "gorget" is (it's a neckguard) and like another year before I realized it was French and probably not pronounced "Gore Get." At least I didn't have to look it up like "capon" though.

Yeah if you're looking for good animation, you probably want to stay away from the whole Shonen genre (basically adventure/fighting shows for boys). They're the equivalent of traditional american cheapo saturday morning/weekday afternoon time filler (and are often made by the same people) and while there are some…

@avclub-9ff7c9eb9d37f434db778f59178012da:disqus Lovely Bones never explains anything. I don't know if he's a troll or just incapable of expressing himself but this is like the third or fourth time I've seen him make a silly contrary statement and then make no effort to support it. The real Stringer is far more…

I know it explicitly mentions "Frank Zappa and The Mothers" in the song as well as blaming one of them for playing with a flaregun and burning down the hotel.

The "always felt like a man" line or "man trapped in a woman's body" or whatever often seems really disingenuous. People don't want to admit that they could change in such a dramatic way, so they cherrypick (or invent) memories to show that they were really like that all along. I understand why people do it. The…

"Vorephilia" also happens to be that nastiest sort of neologism that jams a latin root and a greek root together cus that shit's all the same (see also: "Mephistophiles"). The proper form would be "phagophilia," but saying "I'm really into phag porn" would just confuse people.

Yeah Dan's non-answer really bugged me. He was asked a straight-forward question: what is the risk of someone undergoing FTM hormone treating becoming pregnant? I can't say I've ever really dwelled on the issue before, but now that the question has been raised, I really want to know. I mean it has "happened" (I think…

Yeah Tasha has a much more positive review up over at The Dissolve, so this could just be a case of ol' Dan Jello fixating on something silly.

They're more like sea wolves, really. Just like wolves they have a strong pack focus, a territorial instinct (why you don't want to jump in their cages), and are trainable but not truly tamable (try treating a wolf just like a dog and see how far that gets you).

I'm going to have to disagree a bit. My local (San Diego) zoo is considered one of the best in the world, and they do have a lot of nice enclosures that they've built in the last 20-30 years where the animals live in groups and have some room to roam. But they also have lots of run down old cages with solitary,…

No, they're more like the guys from Star Trek.