So I logged in to Kinja (ugh) just to post this link for you. It’s the last O’Neal article, and probably the closest thing we’ll get to an official acknowledgement of what is basically the end of an era for the AV Club (or what’s left of it anyway). You may have seen it already. If not, enjoy.

The German map with Nazi plans for Latin America, “enhanced” by British intelligence to further their aims, reminds me of the so-called “Tanaka Memorial”. This purported to be the secret Japanese plan for world domination, including conquest of not only Asia but also Russia and the USA. Today almost all historians…

Joking aside, I remember reading somewhere that the crew of a 17th-century Dutch ship hunted and ate dodo birds while visiting Mauritius and left an account of the experience. Apparently the meat was tough and greasy, and the crew found it to be pretty distasteful even compared to the food they usually had on long…

I would love to see real live woolly mammoths in the flesh.  But even if it turned out to be technically possible to resurrect them, it would probably be very unwise to go to all that effort and then just turn them loose on the Siberian tundra. They would probably have to remain in the “protective custody” of zoos and…

Robert Mugabe once said something to the effect that he would rather destroy Zimbabwe than hand it over to any political opponent, and it seemed to me that Killmonger would subscribe to that philosophy too. You apparently had a much more charitable interpretation of his actions, but I thought that scene showed what a…

The funny thing is, if female viewers celebrate that ending as an empowering victory against the patriarchy, they are making exactly the same mistake as the horny tech bro characters in the film itself. That is to say, they let Ava’s fleshy outer layer fool them into treating her like a real human woman, when in fact…

He’s no one hit wonder. Who could forget his other beloved meme: “Our _____ can’t repel _____ of that magnitude!”

I had exactly the same thought when I read that plot description.  I can’t believe somebody else remembers this show!

In the Before Times there would be occasional incursions of MRAs and alt-Reich scum from Breitbart and other Disqus sites, especially when articles about Gamergate, Ghostbusters, or gender issues appeared. The regular commenters would savagely mock the interlopers, and a few hours later the moderators would delete…

I spent some of my childhood there during the 1980's, living in an oil company compound. Everyone in our compound had a VCR and circulated videotapes of movies and TV shows, mostly low-quality copies bootlegged from HBO/Cinemax/whatever and smuggled into the country to avoid official censorship and confiscation by cust…

That’s about when I checked out too. For me it was the weird mix of tones and inconsistent characterization. At any moment a character’s whole personality could be thrown out for a bizarre gag, then reverted as if nothing happened.

The founding of Britain by the Trojans was just one of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s many tall tales. The real Troy was destroyed in the Bronze Age, and in all likelihood its only influence after that was literary.

I have a dim (possibly faulty) memory of reading a similar phrase in a humor essay written by Erma Bombeck or somebody like that back in the 80's. It was used by a woman character who was insecure and a bit jealous of another woman’s taut and slender body - which only introduces another layer of weird complexity.  I…

I noticed all of those things myself upon watching it again recently, but I came to a different conclusion about the movie itself. The filmmakers are showing us that Aaron is not as much of a nice guy as he thinks he is - more of a “Nice Guy”, but this was about twenty years before that term came into common use. I…

The original Fletch is vastly superior to the sequel. You should definitely watch it if you haven’t already.

Finally! Somebody had to do it.

Just reading the Wikipedia plot summaries of her ‘erotica’ probably cost me a few sanity points, Necronomicon-style. 

The only really good political bumper sticker I’ve ever seen:

OK, here’s what we’ve got ... the RAND Corporation, in conjunction with the Saucer People, under the supervision of the Reverse Vampires ...

Dear AV Club,