The simplest explanation is that he's an idiot with limited, if any, self-awareness. This interview, taking the assumption that it was presented fairly and not edited into a hatchet job on his character, does nothing to put the lie to that theory.

Would this be a good time to give a shout-out to Danielson?

Indeed. Shoot 'Em Up is a prime example of what I go looking for for when I want to watch an action movie.

I liked it well enough the first time I saw it, but I haven't rewatched it since and I doubt that it'd hold up on a second viewing. It's a very polarizing film with one of the most intensely despised fan bases on the Internet (even bronies get less shit than Boondock Saints fans do) and the guy who made it could go…

Humanity will remember that for thousands of years to come.

What I'm about to say is a matter of personal opinion, but as a nerd-culture lifer who despises BBT with every fiber of his being, I would not take it well if someone said that to my face. To me, that'd be like going up to Samuel L. Jackson and telling him that he reminds you of Stepin Fetchit.

Of all the things my younger sister likes, none of them were things I introduced to her. Every so often I'll float something she might not be familiar with in her direction, but I don't think she bothers with any of it. Every time I send something her way and try asking her about it later, she gives me either empty,…

^ This one belongs in the AVC Commentariat Hall of Fame For Astute and Brilliantly Stated Comments.

Maybe. But keep in mind that even if Fred himself had been playing the mole to advance the cause of gay rights the whole time, that doesn't mean the WBC's remaining members don't take their own rhetoric at face value.

Sounds like a plan. Maybe I should get in on it myself.

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That's a very popular theory and one I think deserves at least a little credit. Ask enough people and at least a few will eventually cite Phelps's rhetoric as a factor, if not the catalyst, in their turning away from homophobia.

I don't know if this counts, but I do remember crossing paths with it on a few occasions. These memories are limited, fragmented to some extent and revolve around the closing credits, specifically the final shot with the weird-looking, downward-pointing star, more than anything else.

Get the guy who wrote HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH on board to write the script and you've got a winner.

The one kid who ever invited me over for the evening when I was in high school didn't have a TV in his room, so my teenage sleepover/porn experiences involved back issues of skin mags (mostly Hustler, though I seem to remember a Playboy being somewhere in the mix) and a deck of playing cards with nudie pics on them.

So kids actually get removed from their homes? That's news to me, seeing how things like the incidents described here go down all the time: http://www.miamiherald.com/…

Not in Savage Love proper, but something to that effect did get brought up in the comments section on an MLP-related article.

Christensen deserves the heat he gets and then some, but he's neither the only guilty party or the worst thing about the prequels.

I'm probably misremembering things, but wasn't it a firebreathing incident that fucked his voice up?

I haven't touched the fucking thing since 2003 at the latest and have absolutely no intention whatsoever of going back to it. It doesn't deserve to be finished. There isn't anything in it worth building on. It's where my obsession with Stephen King converged with the all-consuming rage spinning around and around…