That was indeed cool. He also did about 99% of the work to make that Jay-Z collaboration happen, per one of the A.V. Club's best features from a while back http://www.avclub.com/artic…. He deserves better, though I suppose with all the giant piles of Linkin Park money he's not complaining too too much…

Same, that slayed me. Well played, Purdom.

What's fun is you can do it with any instrument and genre.
"the electric guitar, that once-maligned 3rd wave ska staple"
"the drumkit, that once-maligned nu-metal staple"
"the human voice, that once-maligned country-crossover staple"
etc.

He's more doctor now than man.

Okay this was pretty great. But it got me thinking, do The Youths of Today even get the parody? I feel like celebrities have gotten really bland over the last ~20 years. Whether that's due to more/better coaching from publicists, a conscious reaction to the Gallaghers and their ilk, or a more general trend towards…

It's a darkly funny way to put it, but you're not wrong. Chicago has a lot of murders in absolute terms because it's a huge city. The rate's spiked a bit the last couple of years in the wake of CPD's horrendous "well if you don't like us wantonly murdering random people see how you like it without any police at…

Nah, if she'd run a halfway competent campaign she'd've won by 10 points. People here have brought up a few of the issues - no clear message, terrible ads, terrible slogan, minimal attempt to reach out to the midwest, treating demographics as destiny - and in the excerpts there are so, so many more terrible things.…

Yup. I remember when he first started out and he was saying all that crazy awful stuff about Mexicans and so forth, and we all made jokes that "she should just play clips of him talking and then say 'vote for me!'", and then she did exactly that and I got kinda queasy. Note to all political candidates: don't take your…

Not for nothing, but according to people who've read it, perhaps the single greatest problem with her campaign was that Mook couldn't be controlled, and he steered the ship straight into the iceberg.

Good for him, but can he really get prices like that at venues this size as a headliner? I guess I thought he was still more of a hipster fav than broadly popular.

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Oh well this is a great big load of horseshit. Not enough clicks? 1)Fuck off 2)gonna need to see some data on that, the last 10 MWOF entries averaged well over 300 comments each. I know they always say comments don't correlate with views, so: show the fucking data. I do know that I consistently get legacy upvotes on…

Holy shit how do I preorder this right now

Oh I love Troy for what it is. I'm even one of the few and the proud who kind of liked X-Men Origins. But the fact that both of those came from the same pen that wrote 25th Hour - the novel too, it turns out! - completely blew my mind lol.

In general I'd tend to agree, but the line between "fictional symbols" and real-world signifiers is blurry. Someone above mentioned Pepe, some violent street gangs adopt logos of sports teams or clothing lines for their own, and so on, there are quite a few examples of fictional/abstract unassociated things being…

"Troy, 25th Hour, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine"

I mean, there is a definite lack of Hollywood movies about the dangers of mere linear increases in grain production in the face of exponential population growth.

oof, thanks for the warning. If nothing else, a game-breaking mod sounds fun though.

Incidentally, GOG is giving away Saints Row 2 for free right now, for the next 18 hours at the time of this writing. I've never played it but I snagged a free copy, look forward to getting into that either this weekend or next.

Wonder Boy! I'm coming!!