That kinda ignores Hateful Eight. Basterds and Django (and Death Proof and Kill Bill) were straight up revenge fantasies. Eight really dug into the animosities of that era a hell of a lot further than I ever would have expected a modern director, let alone Tarantino, to have done.

She always struck me at the straight Velma of that group. Also if Tarantino's movie is done as one long Scooby-Doo episode, I'll be the first in the theater.

"Rich" isn't the same as wealth.

Natty Lite? Someone who has partied "on the sandbar" and enjoyed the pleasure of peeing where they stand among the pontoon flotilla.

You can always get an idea of someone's background by the cheap beer they name drop.

Elliot Goldenthal's score wasn't bad.

Haven't read it in 20 years, but I remember Interview being a good book. My English major friends tell me to never project the author's life onto their work, but it was a sincerely told story written by a former Penthouse Forum letter writer while grieving over their dead child. After that she kinda got addicted to…

Or the one where Al buys an air conditioner that belonged to Erwin Rommel and assumed that Rommel was the brand name. After it failed they were forced to live in a grocery store's freezer section to escape the summer heat.

Married probably took a lot of influence from The Bickersons, a 1940s radio comedy about a dysfunctional couple; though in its case they were an alcoholic and a spendthrift shrew who was destined to become a crazy cat lady (one running gag was her endless stream of cats, all with names ending with "boy"). Like the…

Without the Council of Ricks does he even need Morty's brainwaves?

"Berkeley did the latter and succeeded."

Best guess I'd have on that is that it really is a parallel universe. They kept mentioning the compass needles and an electro magnetic field, but since El made the pan-dimensional breach, there was no huge power source. So the Upside Down must be it's own universe with it's own physics that are slightly different from…

Late to the party, but I'm not sure if El falls into the disposable women category. Barb? Yes, but I think they were going for subverting the old 80s "virgin always lives" trope with her.

I talked to a musician who worked for her once. I've never seen someone who was fired have so many nice things to say about their former boss.

I couldn't look at a blank CRT for a month after seeing that and I have a very high tolerance for that stuff. It was just ambiguous enough (why did he have a napkin on his face?) for it to seep in.

Same here. I can remember mentioning it to people when The Ring came out and getting the "OMG a Weeaboo!" look long before the term was popularized.

Yep. It's the essential fallacy in "if you lower taxes we can finally get things done". It basically bribing a business to do something instead of just paying them. Bribery only works with 6-year-olds and politicians. The rest of us have better things to do.

Great article, but it misses the aspects of the Telcom Act that gives it legs, and why it's essentially a monster that can't die, regardless of the current Administration or Congress.

I'll always have a soft spot for P.O.D. A "friend" use to drag me to their shows for years back in high school, and I couldn't help but feel for them. Back when they were with Tooth & Nail they were just 4 guys from San Diego who enjoyed some spare ribs, playing night after night in front of straight edgers in church…

It was pretty disastrous on multiple fronts, not just music.