I used to know a lot about comics back when the only people who read comics were obsessive nerds checking-in at the comic book store every week or ordering printed booklets via physical mail-order catalogs. What with the internet, and a generation growing up with the influence of underground/alternative/'literary'…

*goes to YouTube, cues up 'Hypocrite' by Lush, listens 4 times*

Aw, I pity your situation. You can stand a little pity now and then.

Yes. "Nos" translates to "nose" and "taglia" is a type of pasta, so the word relates to the experience of sticking pasta up your nose, which would definitely cause pain and maybe a wound.

'Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny 2' will basically be 10 minutes of new footage and an extended flashback sequence which will include the entirety of 'Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny' which will, in turn, include the complete original 'Thumbelina.'

The first thing I noticed about this trailer is how milquetoast and watered-down that version of "Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair" sounds compared to Simone's dark, searing interpretations of the song. I'm not sure who's performing it in the trailer (Saldana herself?); I guess it's possible that they're…

I understand the frustration (and sense of inherent dishonesty) with the term "pro-life," but it's worth remembering that both "pro-life" and "pro-choice" are terms that only make sense within the specific context of U.S. abortion-access politics (it's possible that other countries use those terms, but I think it's…

Thumbs up from two years in the future!

Whoa thanks, I didn't even know about this guy…

"but his "great polling" is somewhat attributable to his relative namelessness"

It's hard to imagine Melania Trump appearing in the history books alongside Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Ford, but then, it's hard to imagine Trump sharing in the same historical lineage as Lincoln and FDR, and look how far he's come already… I think that the lion's share of Trump's appeal is as an aspirational figure…

In 2000 Bush got less votes total than Gore, and there was all sorts of shady business in Florida which continues to cast doubt on the legitimacy of his Electoral College win. In 2004 Bush won in a close race but, if you ask me, there are still questions around the overall validity of that election, too. For example:…

The problem is that in Hollywood/American media in general, white people get a lot more on-screen representation than do people of color. So, if a film has obvious reasons to cast non-white actors in major roles, but deliberately chooses to cast white actors instead, many of us see it as a missed opportunity to create…

Dark City was pretty nifty.

Dracula Un-Untold: Told.

Yeah, and I want to run out into traffic and get hit by some cars, too.

For any fans who haven't seen her web series (or whatever it was) "The Maria Bamford Show," you can do so here:

That shit is bananas. B. A. N. A. N. A. S. Bananas.

Eh, you could say more-or-less the same about the lesser-known practitioners of any cultural field (that is, re: the first paragraph): there are great novelists, filmmakers, rock musicians, ballet dancers, etc. etc. who some people really like but who most people haven't heard of - not all talented people get to be…

Well, they're in the same category in the sense that they're both arguably in the fine-art canon - something that most artists could only dream of. For example, Ono had a solo retrospective exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art last year; you could argue that she's not as good as some of the other artists who get…