Since we’ve all been wondering, it’s been confirmed by the studio that Jesse L. Martin suffered a back injury during hiatus and will be taking a medical leave of absence.

I’m not sure I entirely buy this. I’m sure it’s different from case to case and comedian to comedian, but I saw George Carlin perform at The College of New Jersey in about 2005 or 2006. TCNJ is not a big school that could’ve afforded too large of a paycheck for George, who is comparably equal to Chris and Jerry…

We all know communism was just a red herring.

It’s a clue designed to be misleading or a distraction, but that’s not important right now.

huh I can’t believe I missed that one. Ahhh... That’s from this morning. Excellent. I was poking around last night, and I didn’t really come across anything, except for some more coverage of the Glenn Close stuff. Nice. That’s surprising to see Yeoh come out like that all of a sudden, but it’s real nice. My buds who…

Good Morning!

Ah shit forgot the TVTropes trigger warning. Sorry, hope you make it out.

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
—John F. Kennedy

I’ve been fucked over, but I make it a rule to not ever be fucked over twice by the same person.  It works well for me.  I don’t nurse grudges, but I do remember them.

at least we still have this

It might surprise you to know that actual Japanese people never had a problem with Cebulski’s pseudonym, or the reasons for it. It was, in fact, a non-story in my home country (Japan).

One of the most frustrating things about reading comics from legacy publishers is that, inevitably, there comes a moment where you can’t escape the fact that things don’t really change all that much

I like the “both sides” interviews that he does, where he’s clearly mocking one side.

So, I took yesterday off to head to Rifftrax Live in Nashville with some friends, but it looks like some new shittiness is afoot. I had heard a little bit about this on Twitter, but didn’t really have a chance to look into it until this morning.

They could do two things.

For anyone interested, Screenrant has a pretty long read that covers most of Disney’s ongoing issues with Guardians of the Galaxy and James Gunn. This particular section sums up why I also feel companies like Disney will need to change how they go about handling PR problems with the proliferation of social media as a…

Had a longer than expected meeting today, so my usual morning post is pretty late.

So Variety is reporting something that isn’t too surprising, that Disney/Horn is standing by their decision to fire Gunn from Guardians Vol. 3.