Kubrick's call about God and the supernatural went something like this:

King's been using this book as an excuse to talk shit about Kubrick again. It's really crazy how much he hates Kubrick, he's like the Salieri of our time.

First World Problems is fine when used as a self deprecating joke, but when used as a smug dismissal of other people's problems it's the worst. Especially as the people who will tweet #firstworldproblems at someone tend to be the same people who would take their own troubles very seriously.

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Yeah, those blacks, all using their android tablets. And Asians obviously know, all Asians are computer experts.

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If you look at my post history, or indeed further down in these comments, you'll see I rarely respond to Narrator Returns at all, and mostly just talk about whatever. I'm not Chris Conley, I don't even know who that is. I don't keep up on comments section drama, because that is a silly thing to keep up…

His last few films he seemed to be under the very pre-internet porn era delusion that sex sells. This new one is just baffling. Is there anything about the West Memphis Three case that hasn't been covered by the many documentaries? It's like making a movie about the Capturing the Friedmans case. We've already seen the…

Chris Conley is likely one man, not run by a team of paid writers, so that "hope somebody got fired" joke makes no sense. Perhaps you were zoning out in "how to make your Simpsons reference relate to the comment you are responding to" class.

He's only written two books since Fortress of Solitude, you make it sound like this slow descent. Read the book, don't be a quitter. You sound like the kind of hater who'd say Dre fell off when his last album was the Chronic.

If a short book could be the Great American Novel then it'd obviously be Gatsby. I think being super long is a requirement. I've always figured Great referred more to the size and scope of the book, rather than it's quality. I always saw it as a genre anyway, like noir.

Well there you go. He didn't even review it and he's catching flak. Did he snark on it in one of those box office newswires? Seem to remember something about that.

I think the Carter jokes all come from a place of love. He's the nice guy who finished last.

Dowd's killjoy reputation really shows the Catch 22 of being a film reviewer. If he'd given Man of Steel a good review he would have looked like an idiot because it sucked so much. But the people who hated him for giving it a bad review still hate him for raining on their parade, even though once they saw it they…

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I don't really consider "I grew up poor" any more compelling a defence against accusations of limousine liberalism than "some of my best friends are black" is for racism. And when your source for "poor people won't mind if you take their beans" is a television show, yes,…

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I remember watching Live on the Sunset Strip, where Richard Pryor, feeling a bit sensitive in one of his first shows back after he recovered from setting himself on fire, had a member of the mostly white audience yell "do Mudbone!" at him. Of course, being the artist…

I think it should be pointed out that K Thrace actually says poor people wouldn't complain about paying for a sack of beans and not getting to use those beans, because poor people are used to that. That's like a savage parody of patronising limousine liberalism.

MikeMartz: I don't like the comedy of Dave Chapelle and think he's overrated. 
K Thrace: Um, the comedy of Dave Chapelle is great and he's not overrated.
Yolo Swaggins: Ooh! You got served! What a burn!

"Elvis has been terrible since he left the army and these She Loves You one hit wonders are supposed to be the future of music now? Do I have to again point out that the 60s suck musically?"

Because "fuck Hartford" were the three most cathartic syllables uttered on earth Saturday night. On earth. For a transitory enchanted moment man held his breath in the presence of these syllables, next to which the "I have a" part of the "I have a dream" speech are a bunch of trivial bullshit.

Ugh, 500 outraged responses to something Will You Marry Me clearly meant as a joke. Maybe Dave Chappelle can't perform any more because the internet has destroyed people's ability to understand humour.

Maybe you just find boring things exciting, and exciting things boring.