Heh. Upvoted for truth about Monae.

Of all the current comedy news shows, The Daily Show is the only that sometimes surprises me.

In the last HBO special I saw, he spent a lot of time bashing the Noah's Ark story… except it wasn't the actual Noah's Arc story. It was a children's storybook adaptation of the Noah's Ark story. He made fun of the illustrations (which were drawn for kids) and the copy (which, again, was written for kids).

Even if he gains the weight back, the fat jokes are hack.

The first Ghost Rider was kinda boring. I don't remember much about the second one, but I don't remember being bored.

Head like an orange! A three-'undred-pound orange!

Its not very good beyond being gross and shocking.

It's interesting that you mention fetishization. I've harbored a suspicion for a while that a lot (not all, not most, but a significant chunk) of the recent online push for representation amounts to privileged white people fetishizing minorities.

I think storytelling in games is overrated, somewhat. There are exceptions, but most games tell their stories through cutscenes, which means I don't get to play, which means it's defeating the purpose of being a game.

RYNO: Rip You a New One.

S'funny, io9 ran a piece a while back about Japanese reactions to the Ghost in the Shell casting. By and large, they didn't give two craps about the 'whitewashing' of the character.

I was re-watching Terminator 2 the other day. Sarah Connor makes for a compelling counter-argument. (Although it's a pretty close call.)

C'mon, man! Who has time to fact-check when there are outraged accusations to make?

I just listened to The Hand last week! It sounded truly dreadful.

When my wife and I came back to our hometown for Christmas '99, there was a new radio station that was announcing itself by playing "1999" (the single, not the album) back-to-back, 24 hours a day.

Sean O'Neal once spoiled a major Boardwalk Empire death the very next day in an unrelated Family Guy newswire. It was real dickish of hiim.

Sandler's done stuff. He did a decent version of "Werewolf in London" on a Zevon tribute album.

I, too, started MBMBaM recently. I have a thing, though, that I have to listen to podcasts in order, from the beginning. Which means I'm anywhere from a couple of months to a few years behind the discussions around here.

Ah… the Natalie Portman Effect.

Veronica Mars, maybe? We only met her after she had been raped, but it surely informed her tenacity and cynicism.