I'm 31: I had probably called things/people "gay," or been called that myself, several hundred times before I actually found out what the word even meant. "Smear the queer" used to be a favorite playground pastime until our school banned it — not because of the word "queer," which for our purposes just meant "the guy…

"The Butler" was a huge hit ($176 million worldwide). "12 Years a Slave" was a huge hit ($187 million worldwide). "Fruitvale Station" actually did very well for its budget/limited release ($16 million domestic). And I guess "42" would technically fall into that 2013 racism-themed-movie category too ($95 million…

Sounds like the latter. Which means this show will not only be crass and sad, but also really boring and unsatisfying.

No, I meant the first album with the power-pop jams — then, additionally, those other two songs. I can see the confusion though.

Wright's obvious passion for the project was the only thing that made me even remotely curious about this. And frankly, I'll be just as excited to see a different Edgar Wright movie about a non-ant-man or -woman.

The first album had some good power-pop jams. "My Hero" gives high school football coaches something to play over the video tributes they make for the team at the end of every season. "Everlong" was an actual good song. Everything else they've done just sort of…exists.

Yeah, that…surprised me as well. I initially presumed she was being sarcastic — since Spielberg has produced maybe two or three dozen different TV series — but it doesn't really seem like it.

Solange done come a long way, like those slim-ass cigarettes

I once worked with this strange little dude in college who would frequently note that he hated "talkies," and pontificate about how cinema really lost its way with the addition of sound. (This man would have been 23 or so, at the time.) I initially assumed that this was just some sort of obnoxious pseudo-intellectual…

Agreed, agreed, agreed. I'm the son of a preacher man; a fairly liberal, non-overbearing preacher man, but a preacher man nonetheless. So even though I'm not particularly religious, I've read the Bible, I respect it, and can hold a reasonably informed, friendly discussion about it.

See me as a banshee, as the illest motherfucker since Oedipus
Monkey number one million with a typewriter, flipping Tempest text

Unusual vocabulary GZA uses on Liquid Swords, off the top of my head:

If I owned a business, I would hire this man. Doesn't even matter what kind of business it is, or what this man's skills are. I'd make him vice president if I had to.

Serious question: Am I the only one who finds very recognizable celebrity voice work in video games endlessly distracting? Sometimes it works — thinking of Liam Neeson in Fallout, which worked especially well for being confined to such a limited stretch of the game. But on the whole, it tends to take me out of the…

In my experience, lacrosse players tend to be very aggressive, and easily provoked to violence, in spite of the preppiness and upper-class-whiteness of the sport. Considering Drake's nonexistent thug bonafides, I'd imagine he'd be happy to invite this comparison. It's quite a step up from "wheelchair-bound Canadian…

People need to pick their battles more carefully. The racial stereotyping in that Avril video is, at best, the 9th or 10th most offensive thing about it.

Some time ago, I remember reading a trade article in which some producer called Angry Birds "the most exciting intellectual property we've seen in years." Nothing surprises me anymore.

This is very true, and why I do still semi-willingly force myself to go there on occasion. Nonetheless, just speaking for myself, I can say that I enjoyed the challenge of playing that sort of music much, much more than I enjoy listening to it.

A few did. Most didn't. But it established an important precedent for the rest of the night.

At my wedding, I had a friend serve as DJ, and I suppose most of what he played would pass muster with music snobs. (Lots of Talking Heads, '70s soul, Prince, early hip-hop, etc.) As the night wore on, and the dance floor got more crowded, he suddenly threw on Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble," and the floor…