One part of TFA where I almost laughed out loud is when the rebels are looking over the plans of the Empire's new weapon, and the discussion is along the lines of "So, it's like a new Death Star?" "I wish! It's much bigger than the Death Star!" etc. etc. It was almost-literally like, 'Hey, remember this part from the…

I Am Curious (About Bothans)

OK I'm gonna take on the role of the annoying, pedantic commenter here and point out that SW:TFA did not make "$936 million worldwide" - it made $936 million in the U.S. and over 2 billion worldwide (including the U.S.). This puts it at #3 all-time worldwide (unadjusted for inflation), behind Avatar and Titanic.

Well as Christ said: Let he who is without sin question the veracity of my Guns N' Roses lyrics that have been rewritten to be about ice cream. He said something like that, at least.

He just wants the internet to get in the ring, motherfucker, so he can kick its bitchy little ass

Yep, there's even a name for that: the Streisand Effect. It means if you try and get something about you removed from the internet, you'll be as successful and popular as Barbra Streisand in the 70s.

Here I am
In a Dairy Queen
It might be a bit much but gimme pralines and cream…

I really want Sherman-Palladino to have a successful, long-running show that isn't Gilmore Girls. I mean, I love Gilmore Girls, and I feel like she deserves at least one more hit series to her name.

I had Gashlycrumb Tinies too! I didn't realize everyone had it when I got it in high school, and it's a great goddamned poster.

Ummmmmmm do you see any DRAGONS back there?? Then the answer is obviously NO!!!!! NO DRAGONS!!!!!

OK. I still don't think that there was anything in my comments about violence in GoT that would be oppositional to a discussion of race in GoT (and I don't think it was inappropriate for me to bring this stuff up w/r/t this newswire), but I agree that white liberals (a group which, as you probably guessed, does…

I'm sure you're right (that racial issues re: GoT don't get nearly the same amount of discussion on this site as gender issues), but I don't think those two things have to distract from or be 'opposed' to each other (like, I don't think that talking about one makes people less apt to talk about the other). I think the…

Oh also - relevant! James Mollison's "The Disciples":

The racial politics of GoT are pretty questionable, yeah

Yeah, this. It's like on Game of Thrones, when people are like "Why do viewers complain about women on the show getting raped, but not about masses of men getting slaughtered by sword-wielding armies?" The simple (and, honestly, kinda obvious) answer is that while most people will never have to worry about facing-down…

NO-PRIZE!

I thought "meminists" were basically the opposite of feminists - or was that "meninists?"

Honestly: I've been seeing those posters/images around for a while but I didn't know that was Jennifer Lawrence until just now.

Not a big Beyonce fan, but one thing I like about her is that, from what I've seen in interviews and the like, she actually has a pretty reserved, quiet demeanor when she's not on-stage (that's part of why said interviews are so rare, I think). Like, she seems to actually be kind of a shy, introverted person, which is…

I remember an article many years back - when MJ was still touring - about his super hardcore followers; like, the kind who'd spend their free time camped-out at the outskirts of his ranch. The writer asked some of them why it is that these people - most of whom were not particularly wealthy - would do stuff like, say,…