Yes, it is a dumb little ritual. Which makes giving a shit if someone “fucking fails” singing this overblown dirge just stupid.

The network coverage of the convention tonight is pretty disgusting. Goddamn ABC (so not even Fox or something) is fawning all over him, asking their reporter who talked to him about him in hushed, reverential tones, as though he’s not still an evil disgusting menace to the world.

Why be such a cranky little bitch about it, though?

If they use the song, I hope it’s the original and not the shitty remix on the Greatest Hits.

We’re All Water kicks ass, no joke.

The fact that once you click through to the site, they expect you to sit through a four-goddamn-part podcast to get the full story instead of including all the info in the written story really annoyed me. I’ll wait for more sources to pop up.

The fact that the commenting changeover wiped out the archive of one of Jezebel’s funniest recurring features, Pissing Contest (the samplings in the main articles are a pale shadow of the full thing) was a real shame.

Jason Sudeikis in Masterminds. It’s not a perfect movie, but him insisting on the antique gun which then blows up in his face made me laugh.

Fucking Seacrest is taking over? Another show to actively avoid now.

Except that Courtney Cox wouldn’t be Monica Geller for several years yet.

The fact that Radcliffe does weird, sometimes kind of fucked-up indie movies he finds interesting because he can afford to due to the financial safety cushion of his Potter money speaks nothing but well of him. Glad he’s doing something like the film the above image is from rather than “Christmas Prince” romcoms or…

Then they should have said “only female cop in this small town on this big island” at most (and calling Saanich a small town may get its own objections), saying “on this small island” is clearly a total misunderstanding of the dialog references to “shook the island” etc.

Generations aren’t real, man.

First I’ve been impressed by a musical guest in a while; why take time to mention the dullnessfest of last week’s, and say nothing about Raye (who I expected not to be impressed by at all, expecting just another single-named “mere” singer, not to be blown away like I was).

I actually kind of love the idea of him coming back with more and more outlandish suggestions, growing ever more desperate as they keep getting rejected:

Ah, I only really go there when someone gives me a recommendation/link these days, the farting around with the paywall wore me out on browsing there regularly.

It was mine; loved it from the get-go.

I’ve never understood the weird thing people seem to have against Consider Phlebas; I loved that book, snatching it off the shelves when it first came out, totally excited that this cool new author everyone was talking about had revealed himself as being into science fiction. For years, I thought it would be a great…

Oh my god, when you say he “never finished” I got curious, looked it up, and he just died on March 20th! How the hell did I not come across any obits on my usual haunts? Time was, someone of his stature might have earned at least a small news bit on here when they passed. (Though thinking about it I just haven’t…

Somehow the thing that offends me most is the lack of imagination with the title. A two-part title with a colon between obliges them to put the “2" before the colon and come up with a new subtitle, not just stick a “2" onto the very end.