I used to live nearby, and it's true - the memory of the riots still hangs heavy over the whole area, and seems to shape so much of what Detroit is now, both in terms of peoples' general attitudes and in terms of actual policy.

Well, I'm posting this from my yacht - I'm cooling down after a rigorous session with my trainer, and I just had to steal a moment away from my Brazilian model girlfriends so I could check the performance of my various hedge funds and then clicked over from there. But I think I know what you mean.

I don't know, man. I think when she meets me she'll be like "Wow, you're just a regular guy! So refreshing, compared to the incredibly attractive, rich and successful guys I normally date!" Just be as regular as you can be.

A game of horseshoes???

So, this weekend I decided to do a bit of a cinema binge and saw no less than 6 movies in theaters around NYC.

The character was included in the movie (in part) in order to present a humanistic depiction of someone with cerebral palsy. Because the character is played by an actor without cerebral palsy, that means that what you see on-screen is a non-disabled person mimicking the effects of a disability that many people have.…

My very literary brother, in conversation, on why he doesn't really like magical realism: "And then my grandfather flew away on wings of wisdom! And when he came back, he ate twelve turkeys! Twelve!"

Eh, I don't know, I think I'd rather listen to coldwave, laptronica, ghettotech, IDM, acid house, Baltimore club, ethereal wave, nu-gaze, Hi-NRG, futurepop, jump-up, tech trance, hardstep, drumstep, funkstep, liquid funk, Eurobeat, deep house, fidget house, darkcore jungle, minimal techno, hard trance, indietronica,…

Jon Snow shot J.R.

Three-year-old Eagle Eye did inspire a pretty cool jazz track from his (and Neneh's) dad, though:
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A friend of mine has been researching pop culture ca. 1999/2000, and she helped to remind me just how godawful the rock music charts were then. Remember Lit? Len? Sugar Ray? And of course Smash Mouth, who have remained on the pop-cultural radar because their big hit was so terrible that it's still fun to laugh at… I…

Man, all this stuff about or somehow connected to the OJ trial, but all I want to know is: when will we get another batch of Amy Fisher movies???

Good lord! *choke*

Back to Dorne we go!

Dude, spoilers

Asked and answered.

Heatmiser were quite good, actually. "Plainclothes Man" is maybe one of Smith's best songs, IMHO.

I'm creeped out that there are so many white supremacists and modern-day adherents of Nazi ideology, who will do things like try and contextualize the Third Reich as a period admirable for its embrace of "law and order."

OK I want to tell this story but first, Content Warning: racism, sexual assault, etc.

Republicans are ineffectual on gun laws and have also refrained from acknowledging that this attack was motivated by homophobia - more than one issue at work.