My life has been going downhill ever since.

VAGUE SPOILERS for a movie everybody's seen anyway—it's what makes what happens to War Machine at the end of the fight all the more gutting.

He was pretty good in Barney's Version. I think a lot of pretty-boy actors coast on their good looks early in their careers, before growing into more interesting performers as they get older.

You make me angry. But I like you very much.

…are we not doing phrasing anymore?

Oh, and screw you, 2016. We're all tired of your shit.

Ah, nuts. I used to love to watch the Commish when I was a kid. RIP, Ms. Saldana.

Something something two things something something.

This guy gets it.

So, Reservoir Bitches?

Surely expulsion is not the answer!

***bangs jar against computer monitor fruitlessly***

Hmmm. Guess I'll just go listen to Central Reservation again.

NOT OPTIONAL

TUSK! I mean, hooray!

The A.V. Club.

Yup. Between this and HB2, my state is having a really rough year.

Trigger warning, dude. I still have PTSD from the championship game.

Listening to Chance made me realize how little contemporary hip hip—or pop music in general, really—deals with joy. Love and lust, sure, but happiness gets short shrift in so much music these days.

Goddammit. New Frontier and the Parker adaptations are some of the best works in the medium, full stop. I must admit that my first, selfish, reaction on hearing the news was to think, "now we won't have any more Parker books." And to learn that he co-wrote the "Task Force X" episode of JLU? Such talent.