Bill Simmons gets a lot of deserved criticism for his hacky writing, but goddamn if the man didn't hit it out of the park with the 30 for 30s.

Running back through Red Dead Redemption again, and it's still just as good as I remembered. GTAs 4 and 5 were more impressive, but RDR told a way better story.

Ohhhhh, that's Sia on Destiny? Can't believe it's taken me this long to make that connection.

Ehhh. There's some really good songs on here, but the more ballady stuff does't work for me– the word 'caterwauling' keeps coming to mind.

That's partly because every song she releases is the result of about a dozen different writers and producers working together. You could make a really good pop album with the songs that have been written for her but weren't deemed worthy of making it on an album. Even though music's almost secondary to Rhianna…

Oh, agreed: there's no way for that movie to live up to my mental image of that trip. That said, I am absolutely seeing it when it comes out.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't get what had people up in arms over that news? Casting a white dude as 2001 Michael Jackson kinda seems like the logical choice to me. Doing otherwise is just as bizarre– look up the Flex Alexander Michael Jackson biopic. Now, Fiennes' face doesn't look anything like MJ's, but…

Ok, this placement is funny enough that I had to double-check that it was really a spam account.

There's no way he goes full D'Angelo (cue furious knock on wood), but I'm still surprised we never got even a perfunctory "the album's been pushed back to early 2016" press release. Pretty sure this will all be forgotten in a second if it's as good as Channel Orange, though.

I'm sure Nick Wanserski is a great person, but I couldn't help but make a dismissive wanking motion while reading that rec.

I watched Ex Machina for the first time a couple days ago and didn't realize I'd seen both him and Domhnall Gleeson other stuff until the credits came up. They both have that effect on me– I'm blaming the beards.

Alex, I'll take 'Things White People Say' for 400, please.

On MLK Day! Martin didn't die for this!

I'll agree that it was awkwardly worded, but late-50s civil rights event plus president from that same state isn't the riddle of the sphinx. It really just shows what knowledge bases people are working with– my Dad, who gets maybe 10 questions right each night, got that one immediately.

Because Jeopardy contestants tend to be from a demographic with shockingly little civil rights history knowledge?

I find the fact that AV Clubbers are saying that was a difficult question really telling. Jeopardy contestants are notoriously bad with Black History questions and categories, and my family got a laugh out of them blowing a question on the Little Rock 9 on MLK Day of all days.

Right now I'm reading Beyond A Boundary, which is great and might get me into cricket, but I want to read less nonfiction this year. I've been meaning to get to The Maltese Falcon for a while now, so that'll probably be next.

Not a thing, if we're being honest. I'm not from the typical AV Club reader demographic. Only Bowie song I know is 'Changes,' but the outpouring of grief over the last couple days has convinced me I should start working to change that.

Okay, I realize I've spent too much time talking about this, but I don't think you guys get how wealth management works. Your financial advisors wouldn't literally put $400 million in the stock market, they'd make investments across a broad spectrum of things that would appreciate in value– real estate or art for…

Fair enough, but the challenges of dealing with money are still gonna be there with the annuity. You'd be in the same boat, just with less money on hand. And yeah, it takes skill to manage that money– that's why the first thing you do is hire a wealth management team. Even a super conservative investment strategy will…