Yes. It is. Like the game industry can’t copyright game mechanics and comedians can’t copyright ideas for jokes. It’s better for everyone and encourages innovation.

Except ignoring the part about how the Marvin Gaye lawsuit has irreparably lowered the bar on what constitutes sounding like means in order to determine if something needs to be credited or is it different enough to be it’s own tune.

No there isn’t. Good, bad and mediocre music and everything in between exist all across the popularity spectrum. It’s just that very popular bad music gets a lot more exposure than less popular bad music. And you will hear about less popular bad music a lot less than you will less popular good music.

Let i snow, let i snow, let i snow

I don’t really get why it has to be either/or. It’s possible to write a show about good people being nice that’s boring as hell to sit through, just like it’s possible to write a show about a gaggle of assholes that’s viscerally unpleasant to watch. While keeping command of your tone is important, I don’t think just…

the fuck even is this shit. every time some interesting looking movie or series drops i come here in hope of maybe getting some review of it and instead it’s all bullshit like this. think this might just be the final straw.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actor who makes every muscle in her face put in work

Writer and blogger Mark Evanier suggested Alton Brown, and I can absolutely see that.

only if does Double Jeopardy as Werner Herzog.

Someone once suggested Paul F. Tompkins for host. We need to amplify this worldview as much as humanly possible.  

My Random Roles with him, followed by a post-script:

This flashes in my head whenever I visit my bank, where everyone—who are all good at their jobs, and I like and respect them all—has taken to jeans and golf shirts:

Apologies are usually picked apart and treated with further cynicism, rather than accepted.

Genuine question: is there room in that stance for people to grow and make amends, or is he just soiled forever because of that cruelly insensitive joke?

The Left STILL give Bill Clinton a pass

This is true.

Gotta be honest, not super clear on what point you’re trying to make. 

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If we gonna do a Ted Bundy film, lord knows we need more, can we have a victim based one?  I've been reading Hallie Rubenholds book The Five about Jack the Rippers victims and its truly outstanding in breaking down myths and giving a voice to voiceless people.  If we must play this serial killer game time and again at…