Yeah, that’d be my disconnect with the fandom. Like...you cannot be a walking Fortune 500 company *and* be the underdog.

If this is a remake of Nosferatu in the sense that The Northman was a remake of Hamlet, I’m very interested. Even so, Shadow of the Vampire will likely remain my preferred take on the material.

It’s amazing that the fandom of Swift, one of the most popular, rich, and powerful people in pop-culture, relies almost entirely on seeing her as a victim or at least constantly in danger of being victimized. 

It does have a very prosaic name for a medical condition, like it was named by a four year old.

It’s surprising for Grohl to be throwing such obvious shade Swift’s way, first because he’s clearly aware of the consequences of “the wrath of Taylor Swift,” and second because the pair have always been friendly in the past.

I would pay a significant amount of money to have a casual lunch with Martin Short because he’s a delightful person. You literally could not pay me enough to spend an hour listening to Bill Maher talk at me.

Also, it’s hard to come back from the media painting you as a cannibal. People are used to woman-beaters. Sadly they don’t mind that so much.  They aren’t accustomed to cannibals.

“Is it a complexion issue, or it more complicated than that?”

I find most people in the US who describe themselves as “libertarian” basically mean “Republican, but not willing to admit it” 

I always hated his Jiminy Glick schtick, but it was ok here and he had some good cuts on Bill Maher. Below is a compilation of clips of Martin Short making fun of Steve Martin that shows just how great he would have been as a “Don Rickles-type” insult comic. But at least with these you know that Marty loves Steve…

Martin Short is a goddamn Canadian National Treasure

People wants nuts for his raving monologue at the end of Loki, but I thought it was ridiculous and his schtick in S2 was embarrassing. He's been fine in other stuff, and quite good in the Creed movie.

Could we ever, for once, have a character who *isn’t* a special forces veteran? Maybe someone who worked in the motor pool or was a stock controller in a military food warehouse? Does everyone who retires from the US military now get counselling about how they will immediately be thrown into conflict through no fault…

Can’t wait. Piranisi was a uniquely intriguing book and Susanna Clarke is an outstanding writer (though not very prolific). Glad that they are going with something like stop-motion rather than live-action. It *could* be done live action, but this feels like the right choice. 

Totally agree with Milligna000 — The series that they made of Jonathan Strange & Mr, Norrell was excellent and perfectly cast. An example of getting it exactly right. 

Um, go run out and watch the series. It’s literally one of the best adaptations I’ve ever seen. The changes they make are very smart to help tell the story, nothing done just for the hell of it.

Nearly a decade ago, the BBC did a JS & Mr. N miniseries starring Bertie Carvel and Eddie Marsan . I haven’t seen it myself but reviews have been positive.

For those of you keeping track and enjoy calculating probabilities, that’s less than 4% of rapes result in conviction (and, to be honest, that’s probably still a relatively liberal estimate).

Okay but again, she didn’t “out” a SA victim.

Yes, and I always figured it was some sort of normal rebellion against what I understand to have been a fundie Christian upbringing, but it turns out she just wanted the fun parts of the rebellion like sex and cleavage, and not the hard parts like questioning of a patriarchal society and rejection of rape culture.