It's almost like a Ligotti conceit- a film set that becomes reality, and replaces reality, little by little, expanding and subsuming the real world.

Some peculiar funerary customs have always fascinated me- I remember spending hours once on a web site (designed for women writing Regency romances) that explored the nuances of early 1800s British life and culture that have been ignored or forgotten since. A huge section was related to funeral tropes of the era:…

Best parody of bro country I ever heard was "We're Comin' to Kill Ya" from the movie "Dead and Breakfast."

Who tol' you 'at? Was it Springsteen or Bowie?

Not as wild as Satanic Rituals, but this 1974 edition and other early D&D materials don't get published as much because they contained material half inspired by, half directly lifted from Michael Moorcock's Elric saga. This was later adapted out and replaced with more generic tropes and mythos.

*keychange* Waterloo! I was defeated, you won the war…

I've been making myself weird, free-form mixtapes for fifteen years. They have the somewhat sarcastic title "Yaaaay Randomness Volume (n)," because sometimes the connection between pieces on the album is tenuous, understandable only if you'd lived as me during that period. The very first volume, Volume -3, has a…

Weber still gets the showiest part of "Murder!," and the Sprechstimme verse in "Five and Dime." The role is larger onstage, but Jack's two big songs are "Act 1 Finale" (I'll pull it! ONE BULLET!) and "Act 2 Opening," neither of which had reason to be in a movie.

I call bullshit:

On the one hand, yeah, they keep going back to that well. But I also see it this way: the original trilogy gave us the Empire's ultimate weapon- a moon-sized satellite base capable of destroying a planet. If you're told "we have to go bigger," what's left other than a planet-sized satellite base capable of destroying…

The script to Reefer Madness explicitly says in the stage directions "all references to pot, its effects, its dealers and its users should be interpreted as if we are talking about crystal meth instead of marijuana."

In a just world, Chenoweth would have a project as high-profile as "The Goldbergs" where she gets to be both as lovable and as rabid-animal batshit as she can get. But studios (and Broadway) never know quite how to capitalize on Cheno: she is way more often miscast than well-cast, but her talent is such that she keeps…

I'm saddened but not surprised it didn't touch on "Reefer Madness." One of the best TV movie casts of all time, writing by the MST3K creators, and a message becoming increasingly, frighteningly relevant year after year.

White Nationalist is the best one here- "Nazi" is not only weightless but refers pretty specifically to one failed but persistent worldview. It's like saying the KKK has won the presidency- it's tautologically satisfying but is both wrong in its specifics and its generalizations.
Are we really that surprised though?…

Side 4 of "The Wall" in its entirety.

So, speaking of alt-right and music, I have tickets to "The Wall: Live Theatrical Extravaganza" in January and I'm kinda curious what that experience will feel like today. Last time I saw it, the crowd played along with the "Hammer! Hammer! Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!" chant, but I suspect people will be somewhat more…

Robot is played by Malcolm McDowell.

I can't help but think that's part of the point: the show was a refutation of the boomer era disguised as a celebration of it. "Interesting, world-changing things happened here," it says, "but probably, no, definitely not to you."

Filled with A and B+ list actors.

I misread this as "I think he's actually risen to the occasion and does a perfectly fine… drag."