I call this the Night Vale Hypothesis: given a certain distance from the present day, or a situation distinctly removed from reality, issues and even definitions of sexuality become somewhat moot, if not completely impossible. (Case in point: in "Welcome to Night Vale," sexual identity is entirely open-ended and…

I may never get to play this game, but I have to say congrats to Tessa Netting for landing a lead voice role. Netting has been a very minor TV and theatre presence for years, but she's been a huge figure in boosting the connection between the theatre world and social media/online fandom. Given that my usual art form…

Hot damn- a Bart Simpson Doggarito! I haven't seen one of those eaten, or mentioned, by anyone other than me since the early 90s!
There was some kind of Simpsons tie-in book with a "cool snacks you can make from combinations of Kwik-E-Mart style food" page, and one of them was exactly that. Get a hot dog, toss the bun,…

I've been on the internet too long… this rhyme doesn't make me think of the Super Bowl Shuffle but of the Sex Offender Shuffle now.

Maybe it's different being an adult, but I read so much more now that I have my entire iBooks library with me at all times.

I think maybe it's a case of "shouldn't THIS particular stereotype have died out by now?" Due to the nature of sexism and the ongoing battle of the sexes over the years, the question "are women equal to men?" will never get the resounding yes it should have received. But surely seventy years of television and motion…

Pete's sexuality is such a can of worms that not even he entirely gets what it is. It involves both large amounts of sex with women and an obsession with the men who have sex with men, combined with flashbacks to his own childhood sexual abuse.
Perhaps I'm paraphrasing, but he said something along the lines of "I'm not…

I'd be much more surprised (and pleased) if it was revealed she was actually the Taylor Swift double in the music video.

Were they young in the movie? I know they're sort of canonically assumed to be college dropouts or around the age, but the movie cuts most references to their youth and kind of restages most of them as struggling hipsters who are on the verge of giving up the dream.

Have you heard the rap remix?

Leaving Gif Keyboard - please, don't touch the display,
little boy, aha cute! Moving to the next aisle we have
emojis, the emoticons, our.. finest collection.
This friendly little devil is the upside-down crying face,
unfortunately harmless. Next to him, the nasty poop emoji, his tiny fangs cause creeping ulcerations…

I guess I've got a new prestige-sitcom pitch…
"Putter 'n' Me:" A "young Steve Martin type" in his early 30s lives a relatively quiet, empty life but retreats into a fantasy of traditional and benevolent 1950s-style fatherhood with the daughter he never got to have (who appears as an animated character superimposed into…

The weird thing is that you're wrong, but you're not WRONG-wrong. The whole aesthetic of the show seems to be based on the last twenty minutes of SNL when things get deliriously weird, and I've been watching the sketches trying to guess which SNL host they were written for and rejected by.

Here's a Robin Williams performance you won't see brought up this week: "The Batty Rap" from "Fern Gully." Not a great overall performance. Definitely not a great movie. But Robin Williams was the perfect person to pair with singer-composer Thomas Dolby's funk/hip-hop/sound collage. It's amazing to listen to, how…

True Showbiz Tales #9: Back around the turn of the millennium, when I was still a tween, my father played in a blues-rock band around western Pennsylvania. The band was a regular at a shady venue called the Universal Church of Love and Music, which he thought was just a hippie throwback name (given that it was a muddy…

The "Taxi" bit (especially the character's abrupt physical transition upon the first negligible dosage) may have been lifted from the Neil Simon comedy "Little Me," which starred sketch comedy star Sid Caesar, before being successfully revisited and revived with Martin Short in the 90s. Even Lloyd's costume in the…

Did you go to college in the book "The Secret History?"

It's a faux pas to NOT.

Honestly, I feel significantly better having heard the Putter story. I work in disability during the day, and sometimes Putter has been endearing and hilarious, but sometimes she has made me think of some of the stranger delusions of my clients.
Full disclosure: is Crazy Puerto Rican a comedy bit too?

You're confused. The Rat Bastard was on Beakman.