Fair, but this newswire piece just strikes of, "Hey we just remembered this is a thing that he could possibly do that is bad, because he was granted this power that presidents have had for years before." There's no particular urgency (or pop culture relevance for that matter) to this story.

Muppet Babies?

"Maleficent" and "Oz the Great and Powerful" are the two that spring to mind (though I realize Oz was the title character in the original too, but still was actually the lead in this movie).

Eh, we saw one room besides his filled with trash tech, and to be honest the TV wasn't even that big. Flatscreen, yes, but it's 2016, you'd basically have to be going out of your way to not have one of those at this point in time. I mean I'm making minimum wage, and I've got a fairly big HDTV (relative to apartment)…

He hasn't directed anything other than a couple episodes of the CW's Flash and Supergirl, but he apparently has also done a decent bit of comics writing (the quality of which I can't attest for).

That's because Tusk is actually a fun movie, and way more aware of how ridiculous and campy it is than most people give it credit for (provided they didn't dismiss it sight unseen, which I'd venture to guess is the case here, since I don't think you can have the kind of vitriolic, knee-jerk reaction to anything Smith…

Plus, it could potentially perfectly bridge the gap between his broader comedy and his more nuanced stuff. Like, there's no way (especially with their joint production team producing) that Ferrel *isn't* going to be cast as W., right? Especially given that I think he had one of (if not the) best performances of 43 at…

Couldn't have said it better myself. Hope to see you around here again sometime!

Damn, I actually liked the original title, "Songs in the Key of Phife" better, though dropping the "Vol. 1" addendum to it would sadly be necessary…

Yeah, that to me is the heart of the story, and I think people are missing it for the more zietgeisty Trump comments. He's always been an outspoken ass, but that's some paranoid ravings. While Trump and Jay Z and Beyonce might be equally abstract in our minds, you gotta remember the latter two are very real and very…

For me it was less the Trump thing than the bizarre rant he made saying that he thought Jay Z — one of his closest friends and mentors for years — had secret assassins that were coming for his head, because he said Beyonce rigged an awards show. Thinking some of the people closest to you are actively conspiring…

Hey, I'm in the same boat (seems like we started lurking around the same time), and I for whatever reason never have really posted that frequently (prolly a combo of being relatively young when I first made my account, and then, more recently, the fact that these old AVC accounts are glitchy as hell). Nice to hear…

To be fair, he *is* mentally ill, and has been fairly candid about his struggles in his music (something people who dismiss him without listening to his work beyond maybe the hits don't seem to get). Multiple songs talking about suicidal episodes, depression, manic periods, and, yes, even on his last album, the ways…

I mean, they did for The Lion King I'm fairly certain, but I get that its not what you're getting at.

Obviously that is definitely much worse — and for what it's worth, I don't live in Brooklyn, and the people I was talking about also don't all fit into the "white" part of the equation. I wasn't trying to throw a pity party. All I'm trying to get at is that perpetuating the idea that liberalism is the stuff…

Man, I'm kinda tired of this attitude. Yeah, there are lots of people like that out in yuppie central like Williamsburg or Greenpoint or whatever, but everyone I know living in BK are packed into not-so-great to shitty apartments, usually with a bunch of roommates, and working a couple jobs to barely get by in a city…

I mean, it definitely depends *where* you are in Brooklyn.

I don't know, I've met plenty of people who've only ever seen the movie . Maybe it's a cognitive dissonance things book readers are projecting onto perspective audience members? As in, if you don't know what you're missing, it doesn't register at all (or if something is abandoned or half-mentioned and never elaborated…

Just also gotta give a shoutout to whoever was music supervised that movie, because boy howdy, was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds the best possible choice. Especially hit hard considering how much it eschewed any kind of popular music or pop culture references in the rest of the series.

I know I'm incredibly late to this thread, but a few years ago I was in a vampire-themed punk/performance art band (there were absurd costumes and theatrics and such). One time we got booked for this show out in Queens, and this venue/promoter just kept fucking us over (not paying us, constantly switching set times,…