The original Star Wars was a wonderful tale about a special boy who’s white and a boy and very special, and he saves a Space Princess who is also white but who doesn’t get to do too much. It’s a perfect movie, about how a boy like me becomes a magical space-wizard who uses a laser sword, and everyone else tells him…

This is one of those times, I really, really, want to hear from her perspective. And, maybe have her read it, on video, and record his reaction. Though, this individual is so far up their own asshole I’m not sure they’d actually hear anything she said, and instead only hear the words that validate their perception as…

As a fellow Asian, I am glad Ms. Tran is getting her due after Disney (by way of Star Wars) did her dirty by relegating her to chuffa in The Rise of Skywalker.

If she ever blamed me for any of this, she’s forgiven me. But I still feel awful. Why can’t I forgive myself?

I do think this Fuck Up is a massive jerk for the reasons outlined above, but the idea that she would be happier married to a guy that she dumped him for? I disagree with that. It also doesn’t take into account what her ex-boyfriend deserved out from a romantic partner. I don’t say these things to absolve the LW…

Okay, when I read this letter, my first reaction was: wow, this person is making several bad (unjustified) inferences. The relationship he describes reminds me of one I was in and, similarly, if you ask my ex his side of the story, he too would be taking lots of credit for why my life is the way it is. In reality, I…

I admire Elijah Wood and his career and life decisions. I loved a number of his movies/performances growing up and he was one of the only kid actors who I actually liked when I was a kid. Then he got the LOTR movies and escaped the child-actor meat grinder and got that $$$. He’s a big horror movie and video game nerd,…

Except it’s just portraying a myth that the problems with the police can be solved with self regulation and internal reforms. This has rarely if ever worked. Many of those reforms rarely get enforced and when they do it usually just results in a slap on the wrist.

This. I had slight sympathy for her so long as she kept her trap shut. But speaking for the RNC in this year of our apocalypse 2020 is pretty much all you need to know about anyone.

Well, the LotR films are pretty much ensemble films by definition; anyone who really stood out would have thrown a monkey wrench into the real star of the trilogy, which was its epic scale. Andy Serkis is probably the closest thing to a breakout (in terms of how famous he was after, relative to before), but since his…

Are we sure this creature isn’t a Russian bot? Honestly, this shit is right out of their playbook.

OMG she seems soooo incredibly cool and thoughtful and kind. Great interview! It’s so gratifying when celebs you want to like are actually cool. 

It’s insane that the A.V. Club didn’t include the undisputed best “listen to this song to get yourself in the mood to beat someone’s ass” song of all time:

My mom, stops what she’s doing and muses: “Oh, I just had a thought...”

Oberst once sang as if his heart were in the process of breaking in two; now, older and more mature, he’s able to reflect on the nature of his pain, to wrap it in humanity’s collective suffering. This clarity gives way to optimism, couched as it is in anguish.

I’m reading Axiom’s End by Lindsay Ellis. It’s about a woman in an Alt-History 2007 where a woman becomes the interpreter for extraterrestrials.

Strictly speaking, Captain Haddock's estate, which was also his ancestral home, was bought with the money Calculus made from selling his shark-shaped submarine. But it was a gift to Haddock for the latter having given him the opportunity to test it, and also for the right to remain living on the estate in his own…

Nobody accepted Tintin! Everywhere he went people were chloroforming him, bonking him over the head, shooting at him, sending gorillas after him, launching him into space! Matthew, we are clearly thinking of two different Tintins. The one I'm thinking of owns an alcoholic terrier who for some reason only screeches…

Tintin visits a few fictional places that reappear through his stories: Syldavia, Borduria, San Theodoros, Khemed, the Moon, Miskatonic University in Arkham.