What an impactful memory. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to be Palestinian during those days. I live in Canada, but our world was shaken too; I remember at the train station the morning after, people were openly talking about “fucking Arabs” and “terrorist rag heads.” I’ve never seen such open racism befor…

One after another. Just brutal. 

Too late. Fuck me

That’s the shittiest and most fucked-up celebrity childhood tragedy I’ve heard since Kelsey Grammer. The poor child. Good on her for rising above it.

Very true. I also never liked Jay Z despite his arguably being the epitome of the type of 90s rap I love. 

He’s as technically adept as any rapper ever but he has the charisma of a rutabaga, which is the least charismatic root vegetable. 

Amen re: Eminem. The juvenile subject matter is another strike against him. That’s the one thing I don’t like about R.A. the Rugged Man too - when he gets on his hyper-violence BS. (That and all his songs kind of sound the same.)

That’s definitely part of it but yet I love Cypress Hill...

Well my first love is late 80s/early 90s golden era boom bap, you know, PE, Ice-T, Wu-Tang, Nas, etc. For current rappers, big into the Griselda crew, Logic, Future, Pusha T, etc. Admittedly most of them have at least a bit of a golden era vibe. 

Thank you, I’ll give it another shot. Part of my problem is his voice grates on my nerves, another reason I could never handle Eminem. 

I’ve tried and tried to see what everyone loves about Kendrick. I just don’t get it. I’ve been a huge hip hop fan for thirty years and I just do not get it. I can chalk it up to being a generational thing but there are other younger rappers I love.

I thought it was absolute shite back when I was nine but the cheeziness and Frank Langella’s incredible performance as Skeletor has since won me over. 

Shitty. I was a HUGE fan back when I was a kid but I have little interest in the reboots, cartoons, etc. I am looking tentatively forward to the long-delayed live action film they keep talking about. Kind of doubt that’ll ever happen anyway. [Digs out the Dolph Lundgren VHS tape]

I’ve been noticing that website a lot lately when I look for... uh... recipes, or something.

low-level backlash by He-Man fans against Revelation

My home theatre setup kicks the shit out of most movie theatres, as far as I’m concerned. A 65" 4K with a good sound system all aimed right at your face is way better than most of the seats you get in theatres. Admittedly the experience of going to the theatre isn’t there but the actual audio/video performance is…

If we get Part 2, and then they make more films, I kind of hope they skip over God Emperor of Dune even though it was the best book in the series aside from the first one. It’s completely un-filmable, in my opinion, and only works as a philosophical novel. The later books that deal with Duncan Idaho as an action hero…

2 Fremen 2 Furious

God, I almost forgot how incredible and unsettling Oz was. Watching that show was like staring into an acetylene torch.

Whenever I see B.J. Novak’s name I think of Bob Novak from CNN’s Crossfire, and when that’s combined with “sex toys,” I can’t sleep for a few days.