I’m staying on too, but it really is disheartening to see that Facebook has already been ceded to the right-wing horseshit-sphere and now Twitter will quickly devolve into the same fate. I had put an effort into curating my feed to keep it as a good source of information. It’s going to be interesting to see how…

Yeah, it’s not like Houston is short on neighborhoods where you might be shot. Trae the Truth was shot not too far from my house. But, this dude basically got shot at a Dave & Buster’s.

R Kelly is reading this somewhere in jail lamenting the fact that he was born in the wrong era.

This show and South Side on HBO Max are both written and performed by the same core group. They’re very different shows but both are great.

His observation that he’s nice to everyone else but especially dickish to other performers seems about right. My sister waited on him at a diner when he was filming Rushmore and she said he was nice and dropped a $100 tip on a plate of steak and eggs. Had another friend that worked as a PA on set and also said he was…

I think the other post is about the Two Black Swans episode and it’s was a pretty consistent characterization that Jenna was a terrible, insensitive person. This one is even more layered as a joke considering the Amos & Andy Show was a real thing and one of the most popular TV shows of it’s time. The set up of the…

Yeah, the appearances are closer to cameos than any sort of central role. There was a time in Austin when he was just one of the weirdos on public broadcasting. He was even embraced by hipsters back when this same schtick was directed at the Bush’s and Cheney after 9/11.

Sheela says “tough titties” in a press conference in the real one.

It’s unbelievable that in this day and age simply agreeing on factual reality of a single day makes someone an ally. Cheney is only a few months out from calling these same Democrats “baby killers” who kill babies outside the womb. So it’s not like she isn’t willing to tow the company line no matter how ridiculous.

I’ve seen a lot of people say recently that Eddie Murphy’s Raw and Delirious have aged poorly because of the jabs that he takes at gays in those specials. But, at least bits like Ralph Cramden fucking Ed Norton is an obvious joke. Everyone’s milage may vary but as to how funny that is and in the modern context it…

Fanny seems so inoffensive compared to cunt. A word that seems to get thrown around much more by the rest of the English speaking world than in the US.

If there were some way to do that I would agree, but pandora’s box has been open for decades. The number I’ve heard is over 350,000,000 guns in civilian hands, 20,000,000 of the AR-style rifles alone. Even if we could wave a magic wand and ban them tomorrow it would still not change the situation. We have to simply…

Yep. I noticed the semantics in: “American voters want bipartisan poll watching”. Uh no, we want non-partisan poll watching.

The episode where Lalo seduces and then breaks into Verner’s widows house was the one that convinced me of #2. The sheer tension of that scene when she comes back in while he was hiding was crazy. Knowing that he definitely would kill her if he was discovered after being so affable and borderline romantic showed us…

Chappelle’s take is a little more nuanced but I still think he leaves out a huge part of the calculus and that is while he’s a black male in the U.S., he’s also rich and famous. He also has a huge platform and audience. So while he did have a point about the minority pecking order, so to speak, due to his wealth and…

If you’re talking about the “bus” bit, that’s not really how I understood it. Part of that bit is that gay men drive the “bus” because that group includes white men. He ends the the bit by telling trans folks to be patient because all the other oppressed groups think they’re jumping the line. He goes on to say that…

For the sake of brevity I left it at that but, yeah. That era where on several occasions Chappelle would stop the show cold and just sit there and smoke cigarettes until his time ran out. That was all about the contempt that he had for the audience cultivated by the popularity of the show.

I agree, a better comic could take the subject matter and actually say something funny and interesting. In the Carlin doc he does a pretty extensive bit about how any topic can be funny. It’s not that the topic is off limits but you can only cross that line if it’s funny.  Neither of these guys has an interesting take…

Also, there was the whole lie to the cartel that the lab was a giant chicken fridge. Gus needed to cover the purpose of the construction not necessarily that a construction project was happening.

I actually re-watched it last year. What struck me was that unlike my re-watches of Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and the other “prestige” dramas I remembered nearly everything. Other than picking up a few more details about the backstory of the houses it was not nearly as rewarding as re-watching those other shows…