My coworker and I have somehow developed elaborate and evolving lore revolving around how RBG is a secret assassin who keeps a garrotte under her wide collar, but you're only in danger if there's some sort of step behind you. (Because she is short.) This is now what what springs to mind whenever someone mentions this…

It also sets up a neat resolution in the Christmas special to Twelve's refusal to regenerate because he feels that he finally found a version of himself that isn't reacting to the trauma of the Time War. How do you convince Twelve that there's a future incarnation that can learn and grow into an even more rounded…

That's true, but I never had a problem accepting Missy as The Master; they were clearly the same character. The lore has always supported the possibility of regeneration as a female. I honestly don't understand how a Whovian wouldn't be interested by the idea of disentangling the Doctor's Doctor-ness and historical…

I'm just gonna assume that all genre franchises will now star actors from Attack The Block.

I still daydream about the stand up-soba joints in train stations. Bowl of hot soba soup with mountain vegetables (basically starvation greens) and a rice ball with pickled plum or smoked salmon in the middle, scarf it all down at the stand up counter next to the stall window, return the plastic bowl with a cheery "it…

Pixies - Bone Machine
Mssingno - Scope
Maxwell - Lifetime
Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven
Lorde - Royals
Rancid - Roots Radicals
The Weeknd ft Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming
Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)
Sufjan Stevens - Decatur, Or, Round of Applause For Your Step Mother!
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight,…

I was born on Guam and grew up in rural Alaska, learned a lot of words by sounding them out from text, and lived and worked for years in rural northern Japan and urban Uganda. I took one of those online accent tests and it said my accent was closest to that of rural Ohio / northern Appalachia. I can't even begin to…

One of the first things a freshman year housemate did was sit us all down and introduce us to his VHS copies of The Killer and Reservoir Dogs (pre-Pulp Fiction). I owe him much.

"Capitalism" tends to be conflated with "oligoply" or "monoply," which may be a result but is not a given. For example, most water bills treat water as free and the only value-added being the utility infrastructure. If utilities were forced to value water according to scarcity, as in model capitalism, you wouldn't…

I wish to take this opportunity as a scifi nerd to say that Season 4's "If-Then-Else" was the best TV I've seen since maybe early Battlestar Galactica. I still can't believe this show made me emotional over a human and AI playing chess in the park.

But we already know that Karen killing Wesley is a Big Deal for her. Honestly, I think Sava has so convinced himself that the show is mistreating the character that he is not even imagining that Karen has agency. Look at what he's writing:
the show fails to provide a convincing argument for why Karen excuses Frank’s…

This is when not binging a show is a detraction. [MILD SPOILERS] I would have sworn that the scene that only makes sense if you remember that Karen is secretly a murderer and Matt secretly a vigilante had already happened. Turns out to be the next episode. Though I do think less of Sava for not even considering it.

Whoa, we're dissing Monsters now? Edwards was the main reason I was hopeful about this, pre-trailer. Monsters was a master class in withholding information and referencing off-screen action to make the world seem bigger and the history deeper than would be feasible with information dumps. It also managed to make the…

Maybe it can be two things!

Stevie Wonder - Superstition
Future Islands - Walking Through That Door
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Mary Please
The Black Keys - She's Long Gone
Robyn - Get Myself Together
Sade - The Sweetest Taboo
Tom Petty - Runnin' Down A Dream
Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz - Lovers And Friends
BABYME…

Hill is undeniably a tremendous talent, regardless of whatever personal issues derailed her career. "The magazine says the girl should have gone solo, / The guys should stop rapping, vanish like Menudo."

A hip hop shuffle in remembrance of the Five Foot Assassin, aka the funky diabetic, aka the Trini gladiator:

I'm really not OK with this news. …The "Trini gladiator, anti-hesitater"…

"Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am
Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram
I'm like an energizer 'cause, you see, I last long
My crew is never ever wack because we stand strong
Now if you say my style is wack that's where you're dead wrong
I slayed that body in El Segundo then push it along
You'd…

Correcting the overstatement, Murray stated it is "the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy" and that [t]here should have been a day of mourning for American comedy the day that movie came out." Nothing about "funniest of all time." (https://www.gq.com/story/bi…