Gary Numan was totally a one-hit wonder in the US; much more popular in the UK. But what a hit it was. I was already a pretty jaded 10 year old with the electronic disco of Giorgio Moroder on Donna Summer records. (Also loved Blondie for some rock edge, ha. ) I just remember the hot summer of 1980, reading my…

That.. is bizarre. Though I admit to a youthful crush on him from "Sunglasses", as amazingly 80s as it was.

i remember taping that song off the radio circa 1983-84. Really liked it lots. In retrospect, he was kind of stealing Bowie's idea to expand upon? Which is fine.

Gwen- "Even an appearance in Reality Bites didn’t ruin it, such is the enduring pop strength of “My Sharona.” It really ruined it for me. Not so much the song, which was annoyingly catchy in 1979. Having it's corpse revived in the 90s was no fun, it was shittily backwards. It's what I hate about the whole early…

I came here for the rectal anarchy, left disappointed. I thought it might be a Mapplethorpey documentary about fisting in Frisco circa 1978. Fortunately the AARP website comments provides the searing and robust reporting on this issue that I need.

Just thinking how terrible it might be for a brilliant writer with a horrible speaking voice, to do readings. When my brilliant book is one day published, I shall hire drag queens to do my readings for me in bookstores everywhere. Give them a little razzle-dazzle. I'm an ardent reader, but I don't necessarily…

I love that an early email system from the late 80s was called Eudora, after Welty's story, "Why I Live at the P.O.", the post office, a charmer of a story. Southern women writers in the 20th century were just extraordinary. I loved this salute to Eudora in the early internet days. "Welty was reportedly "pleased…

No one is asking for this. The series exhausted itself with bad hacky writing, tied up with a bow despite jarring narrative incoherence. Hey , remember when Matthew decide to not be a cripple and stood up from the wheelchair because.. vill power or something? Downton Abbey was sumptuous to look at, with a very…

How I Eat a Yam.

Watermelons are stupid fruits that deserve public onstage bashing.

Her?

I guess I'm just sort of enjoying the sight of meaningless stale mediocrities from the past monstering and devouring each other. I never liked any of them in the first place.

Yeah. Russia could invade the Baltics tomorrow, China could invade South Pacific islands to claim for themselves, both could invade the Internet with viruses and bots, Russia and China are pretty much exultant that the US couldn't do anything, because the US populace is so filled with stupid hateful idiots, and the…

As a gay person, I vigorously and thoroughly reject this disgusting ugly Badabook creature representing gay people in any way. And I have to wonder, was it some dumb stupid milennial gay who proposed this hideous thing as an alleged gay icon, trying to make it happen? It's not happening. And fuck these articles…

And while we are talking about this, America's opponents are killing us on the world stage, laughing at us that we have such an imbecile in charge. Russia and China sees what a stupid rusted-out derelict hulk the USA is, they are assertively moving forward in claiming territories like the South China Sea, knowing…

When Iannuci left, it became just, pervy sitcom where we have no idea what any character is really doing anymore, let's load every line of dialogue with filth because that will pass as witty and clever. Except they suck at that, it's so belabored, and we have no idea where Selina is supposed to be going. President…

It is never not funny when Selina is pointlessly cruel to Catherine. Catherine only exists to receive Selina's pointless cruelty. Because these are fictional characters, not actual people. It is a comedy to make us laugh, and "Catherine- America doesn't like you. It's not that you're unlikeable. It's just that…

No that's not what "everyone" was talking about, there's variation and subtlety and digression in conversation here. What I WAS talking about was your assertion that Karen was somehow an inessential, inconsequential character in Goodfellas. Because I guess you just liked the gangster stuff maybe, which is fine. We…

Strength to you on Saturday. A Navy man I see, cool. My dad's gone five years and.. as you say, 24/7. Love to you and your whole family.

It was definitely heavily vetted by HBO Legal. They didn't begin to cover the deaths and injuries and fucking-over of families and workers by Murray's slave-mines. Over a long time.