It funny, me remember thinking at time that Veruca Salt was sanitized corporate answer to riot grrl, and going back and looking at Seether video, they clearly just kids with camcorder in their backyard who rehearse in basement, and not creation of Sony’s marketing machine me had imagined.

As always, white males are real victims!

1997 Cookie furiously trying to travel forward in time to write long, angry screed about Liz Phair being characterized as “riot grrl.” Middle-Aged Cookie happy enough to see Bikini Kill on reunion tour but not really need to get into fights on internet over them.

“Souse” is old-fashioned word for a drunk.

So was Spike Lee this year. And Tarantino in ‘95. And Coens in ‘97. And Gondry in ‘04. Best Original Screenplay is basically consolation prize for someone who deserve Best Director but Academy not like for various reasons.

Me was snubbed again!

Aren’t you forgetting How Green Was My Valley? Kids today, not know classics!

Me have been saying this for years: Kermit is platonic ideal Oscar host, and yet he never get considered. He even have good relationship with ABC! All they have to do is drop dime, me sure he would jump at chance.

Yeah, timeline of Marge getting pregnant shortly after high school and having 10-year-old in late 30s never really added up, but then again it silly cartoon show so it not should matter that much. Main reason Homer is 40 is that writers wanted him to be older than them.

Thank you for this. It ridiculous to stand up Burnham next to Kirk or Picard and say she one who does everything right and is instantly loved by other characters. Me wonder what difference there could possibly be between those three... (hums “One of These Things Not Like Others”)

Me feel like if there one 300-year-old song space explorers are going to remember, it’ll be “Space Oddity.”

22%? That seems about 30% too high.

Also worth mentioning that the last Republican president to not preside over a recession was James Garfield. In 1881. Anyone think the Bankruptcy King is going to be the one to break the streak?

Not for nothing, but 2016 had the highest turnout (by percentage of the population, not just raw numbers) of any election that Obama wasn’t a part of. And that’s after a massive voter suppression effort. And Hillary still got 3 million more votes.

Just want to second this, and point out that McConnell & co blocked more judicial appointments in 8 years than had been blocked since WWII, including that Supreme Court nomination they blatantly, unconstitutionally stole. Not exactly an ‘accomplishment’ and had nothing whatsoever to do with Trump.

“edgy, nihilistic”

This was great comment, and it tie into O’Neal’s article about Ghostbusters this morning. Every franchise have this problem with varying degrees of difficulty, in that nothing can ever live up to feeling original gave you because you are no longer 9 years old.

Like father like son. Fred Trump bought Steeplechase park — historic section of Coney Island — with intention to tear it down to build beachfront condos. Except he not had zoning permission to build residential. But he tore down main building anyway — beautiful wrought iron and stained glass, and Trump got mob…

Exactly this. One big difference between two parties is that Democrats mostly want same things (better health care, education, higher wages) and trip over each other constantly, while Republicans want vastly different things (rich people not paying taxes, Christian version of Sharia law, keeping gub’mint out of…

Me was expecting this episode’s issue to be that every fake person Derek made was too screwed up to make this believable Good Place. Obviously we not get that at all, but me feel like they have to be setting that up for next season.