I mean, it's a difference of opinion, but as far as I'm concerned turning to drugs and alcohol as a method of numbing your pain and having to be rescued by your friends does constitute a drug problem. Like, where would Agustin be right now if Richie hadn't pulled him off the street? That's a problem.

You're probably right that she's not a good match for the show. Ru tends to want a very specific package when it comes to her queens, and that's fine, but it does mean it's easy to see patterns emerging. First two seasons: gorgeous fashion queens. Seasons 3 and 4: unconventional, edgy queens. Seasons 5 & 6: Comedy…

Well, the day-to-day life of a group of gay friends means something different to everybody, depending on their experience. I'm just tired of seeing the same stories repeated ad nauseum. Like, gay people have problems with drugs and infidelity? That's kind of a reductive way to portray a whole culture.

The problem with Looking was that it was always struggling to pretend it wasn't the kind of show it actually was. All the pre-show hype seemed to focus on how they were going to tell the kind of stories about gay life that hadn't been told before, but then the actual show was just all about infidelity and the same old…

I just hope that Pearl can carry whatever breakthrough she had during the lipsync into the challenges and really start showing was she's made of. She's got a lot of talent, but her drag isn't the same kind of super-energetic drag that we get a lot of on Drag Race. I've never seen her perform live, but I checked out…

It was barely perceptible, but there was definitely a moment during the lipsync when Pearl turned something on and started to actually perform. And while Trixie was doing a good job being energetic and dancing and whatnot, it seemed like about halfway through Pearl decided to actually commit, which is probably what…

A sky bison. Friend, protector, mode of transportation. Plus none of that creepy, talking "luck dragon" shit.

For some reason I was kind of hoping Lee Pace would play Dolarhyde. But only if he was playing Thranduil-as-Dolarhyde.

The Academy is sorely out of touch, and totally, bed-wettingly, scared of new forms of film distribution i.e. anything that doesn't force people into overpriced megaplexes to watch 20-30 minutes of advertising. That The Babadook can't even be considered is a travesty; it's a film, it got a theatrical release (though…

Generally I don't care who killed Bruce Wayne's parents. It's either Joe Chill, who's basically just Random Hoodlum #1, or the Joker in Burton's version, which was just a convenient way to raise the stakes. I don't really care about all the little ways that Bruce learns to become Batman and I'm really not looking…

There's just no one to root for. There's Gordon, who's basically a saint compared to every single other cop he works with. Even Montoya and Other Cop, while not exactly as corrupt as everybody else, are busy encouraging a bisexual Barbara Gordon to stray from her husband, and generally being an asshole,…

Yeah so far this whole thing with James has seemed pretty beside-the-point. Which shouldn't be surprising; for a show designed around a central metaphor for homosexuality and "otherness" it's always been pretty focused on tits and ass.

They should have just killed him off at the end of season 1 if they weren't ever going to come up with anything for him to do. Meanwhile we spent endless time with Violet and her sex mansion, and, you know, that time when Rutger Hauer showed up for 3 minutes to tell Sookie that he was hoping Bill would die. You know,…

The worst thing (besides being a totally lame send off for Rutina Wesley) about Ghost Tara's "storyline" is that it's starting to look like this is also the endgame for Lafayette, unless they manage to whip up something interesting/important for him to do in the next two episodes. Which, considering he hasn't had…

What's annoying here for book fans is that a lot of people got invested in Lady Stoneheart's story and what she meant for the story, so not including her character on the show is basically a big heads up for fans that she's not going to do anything particularly important in books 6 and 7. Prespoilers, everyone.

A little detail on the whole Underwear Neighbor bit: when Gus came home he passed a Mitzvah Tank, kind of a Jewish outreach mobile, basically a mini-synagogue on wheels; and the neighbor herself was shown to take her wig off before she flashed Gus, which identifies her as an orthodox Jewish woman (which would make her…

Oh, and the Stop & Shop I worked at used to have a huge drum of cut-out cassette tapes that I'd pick through and take. It's how I learned to love Roxy Music.

My undergrad roommate and I used to waste a lot of time at a Borders near our school and we'd occasionally come across CDs that slid right out of those plastic security device things, so we'd just stash the CDs in our cargo shorts and try to act real casual. Long story short: it's how I became the "owner" of Tori Amos…