“This was beyond anything I had experienced in my 30-year career.”

Obviously this sort of revenge ploy is only doable if you’re a mega wealthy pop star like she is. But if I have to choose between the pop star and a record industry parasite, I’ll choose the pop star.

It’s not really about making money. Artists usually don’t own the rights to their own recordings, the labels do. Swift is a big proponent of artists owning their own music, and since Scooter Braun won’t sell her music back to her, this is her way of reclaiming them. It’s amusingly petty, but also genuinely paradigm…

Blade Runner (also 1982) was likewise dismissed at the time as well and was both a critical and commercial flop. It wasn’t until a few years later that it became acknowledged as the classic it is.

Is there a movie that has gone through a more dramatic reappraisal after it left theaters? Like Carpenter’s the Thing has gone from the “quintessential moron movie of the 80's” to “one of the greatest movies ever made” in the years since its release. I’m sure there were movies that were beloved in their time that just…

Pro athletes are in their own universe, it’s a mix of macho culture and various quack doctors telling them they don’t need it. That and not having to go to normal people places means they don’t really get pushed to wear masks or vaccinate.

I’m using “cancelled by the woke mob” as a catchall excuse for everything these days.

I saw someone on Twitter sum it perfectly a couple of days ago;

So weird how every time I hear someone bitching about being canceled, they happen to be rich and privileged and they communicate about this cancellation via their enormous and uncensored media presence.

he learned he was allergic to something in the Pfizer and Moderna shots,

They’ve done tons of melodic and relatively traditional songs since then.

Man, you are not going to be a fan of the upcoming Disney Plus special, “WHAT IF...IRON MAN GOT RAPED BY A PANDA?” Not sure why it’s 98 minutes long, either.

I mean, I’m here for more stuff from the Every Frame a Painting team. Those videos were always a blast and got me to look at movies in a different way. 

Have you played a Far Cry game? I haven’t played the whole series, but I played the last two and both of them were trying to make political statements. They just weren’t doing a very good job at it.

It’s like that great Justified line (as if there’s only one): If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.

On Comedy Bang Bang, Scott Aukerman asked something along the lines of “What do you call people you admire who came before you?” while looking for the word ‘idols’ and Phoebe Bridgers said “Boyfriends?” so I’m pretty much on her side in every scenario now.

I am deeply in love with this little masterpiece

Best Onion headline of all time:

“Why do all these women keep claiming I abused them?” is IRL “why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?”

Someone suing a bunch of people for defamation never seems trustworthy.