Wrestling is basically what Jim Steinman sees when he closes his eyes, only with less singing.

That would make a lot of sense and he does check a lot of boxes, After all, his vision of GLOW is a lot less sexual politics and a lot more badass divas and cool ladies who aren't necessarily conventionally attractive. But the party almost gives me more of a Peter Pan vibe, like he's just not ready for adulthood…

That's one of t he best moments for Bash in the whole series, I think. It makes it clear that he gets wrestling, and that he (unlike Sam) thinks of these women in more complicated terms than "Do I want to fuck it?"

Bash is probably my favorite male character in the show- he's a dumb entitled adult child, but so is Ruth, and he's the first person to really push back on Sam's presumption that she's ugly or weird looking just because she doesn't wear a lot of makeup and have blonde hair.

I think that giving the actresses a month of training and then on-set coaching and supervision was EXACTLY enough to capture the amateurism of GLOW.

It's worth noting that it's not really wrestling-wrestling. The real GLOW wasn't either, and as it goes on it gets pretty clear that the show is aware of the difference between GLOW and proper pro wrestling. They mostly use Carmen, the woman who is the only daughter in a wrestling dynasty, as a means of delivering…

Sam's ridiculous attitude about Ruth's appearance is acknowledged later on, at least.

Marc Maron's actually good in it because his character is mostly just a one-note sleazeball cokehead.

Man, Harry Potter is awful.

Wait, you're telling me that a lindelof joint totally fucking whiffed it?

To be fair, it's only on a fringe streaming service in America. It'll be airing on netflix in more countries, and on proper TV and/or cable in a few others.

Is "The Vulcan Conflict" a euphemism for syphilis?

A lot of it's down to custom or history- or in the case of the Babadook, successful memes.

I think that's like, our slogan at this point.

I'm going to be honest- it's really not. Drag Race, like a lot of relatively mainstream drag content over the past… god, almost thirty years, tacitly references Paris is Burning. But where it differs is that it neither represents a queer fantasia, nor a realistic view of queer precarity.

Jones's first major 'get' was piggybacking on a British irony journalist's comedy bit about Bohemian Grove…

I thought that as I typed it, but I'd just been rereading that bit from his book where he talks about how he's the perfect screen for people of various ideologies to project onto, and it seemed like too perfectly absurd an analogy to let go.

I liked Breath of the Wild, but I have to admit feeling somewhat similarly about it. It's the first Zelda game I really ran out of steam on without finishing, and I think that that's in large part due to the fact that it lacked structure and had very perfunctory dungeons.

I actually had a close family member die last week, and honestly I really wouldn't give a shit if someone ate his brain, because he's dead and we just burned his body anyway.

People relate to her because, despite being such a tertiary character, she's pretty well sketched out and is EXACTLY who a lot of nerdy people were at that age. Whether it's the lack of fashion sense and social skills, the being vaguely prone to slut-shaming because their friends are getting the hang of sex and dating…