Cranky Circle

So at least they brought some much-needed exposure to the third-highest-grossing film of 2014!

Well, according to his author photo, he's a cartoon, so…

♪ Please don't bake my hams ♪

Chomsky, Noamal Form.

You can't put Juggalo makeup on Guy Fieri. It would reveal to the world that he's actually Violent J.

Yeah, it's a real thing. Or a real fake thing, anyway. I don't know how it could be central enough to a coming-of-age novel that it merits being the title, but, I haven't read it, so I can't say for sure that it's used as a shitty metaphor.

Yeah, that weirded me out. I don't like Green much, but I assume he knows what a paper town is, and the trailer…did not seem to. People who've read the book: Is the title seriously a shitty metaphor about how suburbs aren't really real, man/only exist to foil map plagiarists?

When I was first introduced to the game, I assumed it was based on a webcomic because the art has that "depths of Comics Genesis" feel. Woof indeed.

Velma and Hot Dog Water!

Tetis

I wonder if he knows that Tomb of Horrors was published in 1978.

A lot of the trouble, I think, is that it's not deconstructive, or even critical, at all. Cline doesn't make any effort to connect to his references on more than the most superficial level (say, by reciting a whole movie), and therefore has nothing interesting to say about any of the things he references. That makes…

I don't like it because I feel like it was targeting me too hard. It was desperately throwing out references to stuff I like in order to distract me from how weak its plot, characters, and worldbuilding were. And none of the references signified anything except "Hey! You remember this thing!"

And then at the end of the movie he transforms into Bizarro!

That space in the middle seems really ominous to me. Not in a creepypasta way, in an out-of-touch-parent-trying-to-be-hip way.

I help out at national high school quiz bowl tournaments, and five years or so ago, the hotel that NAQT booked was hosting a shibari convention the same weekend. The li'l quiz bowlers weren't allowed in convention areas, but there were a lot of awkward elevator rides.

As long as they also bring back Ssserpent, the Snake that Walks Like a Man. Without actually making him walk like a man. That would ruin the magic.

Wait, does the male gaze mean "men looking at stuff" now, or was the picture shot like the cameraperson was drooling over the woman's butt?

The twist is that he was a shirime the whole time!