"Kardashian adjuncts" - makes me think of who I might like to be an adjunct to. Franco adjunct? JJ Adams adjunct? Will.i.am adjunct?

So it's like the college sports of the music world? Interchangeable people you'll see for a few years, who may or may not become stars in their field, but that's not really why you watch them? Hopefully at least these people get paid.

No, but pop music has always had its "discovered" bubblegum singers who can't write songs, have a narrow range and remain disposable. We've just managed to figure out a way to make money during the process instead of waiting for the end-product.

@avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus Yeah, had a friend who kept insisting I join her Irish step-dancing class to meet girls, which sounded OK, but the problem is that the girls I'd meet would almost certainly like dancing and want to continue to do it in the future. Like joining a church for chicks -…

Who Wants to be a Millionaire! On sometime in the next hour, regardless of what time it is!

Country works when it's dressed up in pop clothes (or maybe vice-versa). But when it becomes too obvious, suddenly music tribalism kicks in and people who enjoyed the same basic song last week will suddenly remember country sucks and turn it off. Country sells records, but it also appeals much more strongly to the…

When I worked at Amazon, The Secret - that book that said that if you think you will succeed you will - got our department through two tough quarters. People really ate up that empty-calorie self-actualization shit, and that translated into big, big bucks for the snake-oil author and the massive conglomerates that…

More villains are better villains!

I liked it OK, but the way the entire thing hinges on them adding in a worthless extra, him being even worse then advertised, him escaping in a not-entirely-believable sequence, and then the rest is him bringing them down… the problem is it made the crooks look like schmucks, while the weasel character was never worth…

I didn't much like it when I saw it, as the logic failures bugged me more than the fun parts entertained me. But of course that was the point - the "we'll fix it in post" or "eh, relax and don't think too much" - is what they were aping. So how does she fire the gun? Why does Willis and rest just stop breathing the…

What about when McNutt had to hide the bodies of those hobos?

I assumed they were the ones holding him down. The rapists were a completely different group of people and the whole was really a zany and/or half-assed coincidence.

I thought Watchmen was the best movie we are ever going to get from that material. If you think it isn't filmable and the attempt was fundamentally misguided, that's fine. But for what it was, and what it had the potential to be, I thought it was fine. And the Space Squid was idiotic even in the comic.

Maybe you could strut?

Zap Rowsdower

Based on my understanding of how Kickstarter works, I will soon be having sex with all these people because I gave them $10. Looks like i'm gonna be busy!

Eh, that smacks of "Women of Kleenex" that the Flash can't somehow slow down when he wants to. Since there no conceivable scientific basis for his powers, "X implies Y" is senseless; garbage in, garbage out.  So in the same way Superman doesn't make a crater every times he eats at Taco Bell, Flash can talk like a…

Where did he get 150 two-dollar bills? He must have been obsessive-compulsive or something.

I got "We're scared of unity, but that just shows that it's crazy to be afraid; the solution in any case is to have some hot sex."

I want Bart and Milhouse to show me how to stretch 20 bucks like that. Those kids spent the hell out of that twenty!