The 1960s and 70s independent American horror directors, in general (e.g. Romero, Hooper, Craven, Carpenter), often disrupt the "Terrible Place" trope that Carol Clover and other scholars have pointed out in the genre. Spaces coded as safe turn out to be just as dangerous. The small town (like the one in Halloween)…

And he often had great guests—like Stewart, he'd have on scientists, politicians, authors, etc., with more frequency than the network talk shows, and they'd often have relatively substantive conversations. I'm hoping that continues with the new show—at least that they give it a shot. It would help set him apart from…

Yep. The concerted effort of Fox News' pundits and other RNC-approved voices to declare Trump the big loser and try to derail him immediately after the debate was a sight to behold. It was even more fun when the first new polls started popping up on Sunday and he hadn't lost any ground. Cue Ailles calling Trump to…

It's like Val Lewton used to say about using shadows in place of actual monsters: leaving it up your imagination is a hundred times more effective.

1. Patton Oswalt
2. Henry Rollins
3. Trent Reznor
4. Tori Amos
5. David Simon…

Those are all pretty much common complaints friends and colleagues from Europe who come over here have made. Chocolate is only going to get worse. There was a story recently about how most companies are going to stop using cocoa butter as the main ingredient because it's too expensive, opting for cheaper substitutes…

This is actually what bugged me a little, specifically, not her mentioning the book several times—that I get. It was like she thought if she answered a question more fully people reading the interview would feel like they had already read the best bits of the book and wouldn't buy it.

In the book's introduction she talks about how she doesn't care for the title, but when other people use it she takes it as a compliment.

Yeah she singles out Ultima as her favorite RPG video game growing up and how meeting other enthusiasts online opened up that world to her (I noted it because the Ultima ports for the original Nintendo were my favorite games for that console).

Slate just published a piece yesterday about how "The Fantastic Four themselves really are elitist, reckless, privileged dicks":

In the review of her book here the reviewer starts off by pointing out that she doesn't care for it.

Agreed. I might be mistaken about how the feature works, but I'd volunteer that "Love Will Tear Us Apart" would be a great candidate for a future entry if it qualifies. In addition to the peerless original, Swans did an amazing cover of it, as did a group called Susanna and the Magical Orchestra. Squarepusher and…

Brie already has the smart, funny, and approachable dynamic working for her, and she's coupled that with a sexualized image that she's cultivated. She has done pin-up style photoshoots, for example, for Maxim and the like (at least one with her co-star Gillian Jacobs), and despite the oft-quoted line from Community…

I'd say she's vying for first place with Anna Kendrick, Emma Watson, and Aubrey Plaza, among others.

His interview with Maron on WTF a few years kind of warmed me up to him again (but then I always thought he was great in Good Will Hunting and I've been told that's a horrible movie, so what do I know?).

Speaking of Magnolia (sort of) and Red Vines, Aimee Mann's "Red Vines" is what got me to try them. Twizzlers were all I knew growing up. It wasn't until college that I even heard of Red Vines.

After Subway was featured on Community for a few episodes I ended up going there for the first time in years. It happened to be during their "Customer Appreciation Month" and they had a few six-inch subs that were only two bucks each, and they didn't skimp on anything when I got mine loaded with pretty much…

I didn't even know we were calling him Old Bear

I'm waiting for him to pull a Shatner-on-SNL and come on and tell you all to get a life.

His recent column at Cracked (not something of his that they just recycled to get him back on the front page) garnered a similar warm reception in the comments section there: