"Slayer’s Kerry King making a convincing argument for rap-metal that would take more than a decade for Kid Rock to refute"

Having "apologized" in march, he then went right back to implying that it was an inside job later on: http://takimag.com/article/…

Unless they substantially rewrite the plot of the first two books, you're gonna see plenty of the blue stuff.

What a perfect goddamn capstone to this fucking misery of a year.

Don't sprain your arm patting yourself on the back there.

Roman Polanski drugged and anally raped Samantha Geimer while she repeatedly begged him to stop. Lori Maddox has maintained consistently for well over thirty years now that her encounter with Bowie was enthusiastically consensual and that it remains for her a treasured memory. Bowie was 25 when he had sex with a…

It's a good line, but let's be honest with ourselves:

<hot take>Alan Moore's run on "Supreme" is the best thing he ever wrote, including "From Hell" and Watchmen</hot take>

Good Eats 2: This time with 90% more Ayn Rand quotes!

The troll hole, as it were.

Shades has probably hit limit on working for bosses with uncontrollable rage issues. He spent basically the entire back half of this series teasing out Mariah's inner crime boss just so that he could hench for someone with an IQ above room temperature.

I'm kinda willing to buy that Luke was still white-hot angry over his wife's death a year ago when the events of JJ were playing out but has had a little more time to process and think about how weird the circumstances of them getting together were by the time his series starts, but it's a fair cop that it's a shift…

I suspect (but have never found any sort of confirmation anywhere) that durian is one of those tastes like cilantro where for some people it's unusual but pleasant, whereas for others it's Instant Death. My wife loves the stuff, but even homeopathic amounts of it reduce me to retching.

Yeah, uh, that's… not likely to happen.

but, what would this narrative have looked like if they hadn't killed Cottonmouth when they did?

I agree, but… argh. It was like the props people and the directors didn't think for a moment about how it would look. There were multiple close-ups of the backpiece powering itself back up: there had to be, in order to establish how it worked. But that meant that we'd had our visual attention drawn to it a lot, and…

Eh, depends a bit: how much do you care about them sticking the landing?

^^^ This is now my personal head-canon and damn anyone who says different.

The general consensus seems to be: contractual obligation. They signed a huge development deal well ahead of getting any actual scripts written, and that meant that money had to be allocated in advance. 13 episodes probably sounded like a good idea at the time: 12-13 episodes per season was the same run as most of…

"Tension is easy, son, resolution is difficult." Sticking the landing on an episodic narrative is hard— this isn't a new problem. See also: The Wire, Lost, The Sopranos, Deadwood, and for that matter Babylon 5, Dallas, Saint Elsewhere and probably a solid plurality of any long-form show with ambitions of narrative…