I want to quit but for some reason I can’t. 

Fascinating! Even though we all already knew that!

I know directionless snark is pretty much the only thing this site has to offer these days, but I can’t even figure out exactly what this article’s supposed to be sneering at. 

In his defence, Helen Baxendale is both a grown woman in her fifties and a successful thirty-plus year veteran of the acting profession who has almost certainly read much harsher critiques of her work than a producer-director she worked with for a few months back in 1998 saying she was a nice person but not especially…

Honestly, this one’s a typical “we’re getting outraged over an out-of-context quote we’re reading in a post which reports on the report on the report on the report on the report of someone writing a misleading article about it” storm-in-a-teacup here. It’s a couple of paragraphs on how she was a nice person but didn’t…

Not really; he offers his opinion that even authors shouldn’t be changing their work once it’s out in the world, but he doesn’t say that authors who do are stupid doodyheads or anything. It’s just his thoughts on the subject, not a personal attack on anyone who may think or act differently.

Might as well dot-point the reasons, even though we all probably know them:

Splitter!

It’s some of them more than others, granted; I was just on a bit of a roll there. In particular, Ali, Dylan and the Beatles were all born a few years into WW2 rather than after it so I’ve seen them get lumped in with the Boomers at times.

Honestly, I was going to go longer but I’ve got a website timer for how long I can stay on the AV Club and it was about to run out.

To be fair, I didn’t say it was weird that Boomers might idolise people older than them, I was just pointing out that a lot of famous and well-regarded people who might otherwise tend to get lumped in with the “Boomer” label were actually part of a different (and like Frank says often-ignored) generation altogether,…

Worth noting that many Boomer icons were in fact members of the Silent Generation:

To be fair, it’s a basic review of a streaming tv show etc which uses the term repeatedly throughout the article, including the headline. Which makes it fair to talk about how it’s being used and why.

Honestly, yeah, the constant use of ‘late-stage capitalism’ in its current form tends to smack a little of desperate wishful thinking. Capitalism can be shit, but we’ve no idea how much mileage it still has in the tank, just like people in AD300 had no idea they were living during what later historians would call the…

It’s no Magnum PI or Miami Vice in terms of icons of the eighties, but it has a certain cult cache nevertheless. 

“And [I] go on this journey with [Suicide Squad]. And the same thing—authentic, truthful, let’s do all the rehearsal, let’s really get in each other’s souls. Let’s create this amazing, collaborative thing, right?” [...] Then it’s like, ‘Okay, we’re going to turn David Ayer’s dark, soulful movie into a fucking comedy…

Can’t lie, the fact that Nicholas Lyndhurst is inexplicably in the Frasier reboot / legacyquel / whatever the fuck we’re calling them these days is the main if not only reason I’m interested in it. Frasier Crane and Rodney Trotter. Good or bad, I have to know.

RIP Arleen.

In fairness I was going for the meme over scientific accuracy, but yes, point taken. 

I recently dug up a few old kids books-on-tape from when I was a child and converted them to mp3s for my two year-old niece to listen to / nostalgia value with a cheap cassette-to-mp3 converter I got. There were a couple of long-forgotten mixtapes in the drawer as well and I thought, what the hell, I’ll give ‘em a…