Basement scene was good, but I woulda thought the lake scene would be the recognized standout. The way it switches tones, even in the single scene, is disorienting and adds to the terror (e.g.: for a moment, when the couple is disagreeing about some minor detail, it almost seems comical).

"Wicked child!"

I'd like to believe those tapes exist, but in all fairness I have to admit that Tom Arnold is engaging in classic con-man behavior, i.e., 'I have evidence of X. I haven't presented it yet, but will do so in the future. In the meantime I'd like everyone to act as if X has been proven.'

Fun Fact: When super-producer Rick Rubin worked with The Black Crowes on their first album, he suggested they change their name to the Korn Kounty Krowes.

I used to argue politics on my major newspaper's message board (something I stopped doing a while ago; just couldn't stand how much the discourse had degraded). Anyway, occasionally a regular commenter (i.e., not a dummy account) would post something quite offensive, sometimes in a racial sense. The administrator…

"This is one of the most exciting nights of my life -> make no mistake about it, our people have played a HUGE role in electing Trump! "
- David Duke's election night tweet.

I think the existence of this show is good, because it shows that this shit really exists. It calls attention to it.

Book was good. Along the lines of what you're saying, I seem to remember reading something by Jared Diamond in which he said that he has been part of "first contacts," between such tribes and civilized people (yes, a loaded term). I remember Diamond saying that first contacts are actually quite scary, because there's…

I keep hearing varied interpretations of "The Witch": what it means, whether there's a message there, etc. I'd be curious to hear anyone's thoughts.

And it's not like doing that has ever caused anything bad to happen.

There's a married couple among my in-laws. Their politics are such that they enthusiastically went to see Bill Maher last time he came to town… Point is, their MAIL-IN BALLOTS were sitting on their kitchen table, not filled out, after election day.

Hey George this is Sergeant Jacks at your local U.S. Army center how's your summer going?

Also, can we please point out the fucking irony here: Donald Trump is the biggest fucking whiner on the planet! Who was it yesterday, Vanity Fair? Because of a restaurant review? How long until his next anti-SNL tweet? And let's not forget that Donald Trump himself doesn't accept the results of the election (claims he…

I know Arnold has (very tepidly) acknowledged this, but I'd think if he's such a big environmentalist he would find Trump's cabinet picks especially galling. The way it looks now the stage is set for the environment to be damaged to an extent that might take decades to reverse.

Among the hundreds of pieces about Donald Trump to emerge in the last year, I'd say the most striking (and scary) is the one Tony Schwartz wrote for the New Yorker.

Yes because everything has to be about this now, but… Stephen King did not take the election of Donald Trump well, as evidenced by his Twitter feed. He shut down for almost a month (much of his feed consisted of cute and funny pics of his dog).

There have been many times when I've used the expression "The 90s were a more innocent time." E.g.: remember the naive innocence of when we were merely debating where the President had shot his load during that blow-job from the intern? Sigh…"

If I were the proprietor of Comet Ping Pong in D.C., I would sue the ever-loving fuck out of Alex Jones.

As did, "You, President? This is the greatest country in the world. We've got a whole system set up to prevent people like you from ever becoming president. Quit your daydreaming, melonhead!"

I was a big fan of the extremely brief musical trend that seemed to break out in 1989 and was in its death throes as 1992 closed out.