Puce? That's cover's mauve, and I won't hear otherwise.

This is just terrible, everybody recognized him as someone on the way up. "Walked In" is great, check that out if you've never heard of him.

Wait, are furry/non-furry relationships a thing? I always thought of that subgroup as creating strictly intracommunity partnerships, kinda like deaf people or tattoo artists.

I give it one week until an image search for Zootopia returns terabytes of unspeakable filth.

Nah, Cazale's Steve Kerr. Pachino's the Jordan, DeNiro's the Pippen, Hyman Roth's the Dennis Rodman and Abe Vigoda is Luc Longley.

Wouldn't Chinatown/Godfather 2 be the better Sonics/Jordan comp? The Apartment's really good, but it's not Michael Jordan good.

It's a great movie. I wish it had gotten all the attention 12 Years a Slave had received.

Better heroin than puzzle games, I always say. I had to quit Tetris cold turkey back in college when my dreams turned into endless games of falling blocks.

Does Weeds make that list if the opening credits went downhill at the same time as the show? I really liked the Little Boxes opening and all the different covers they had.

A lot of good picks for Quintessential American Novel mentioned here– it's always tun to see what people look for when they talk about "American" books. I'd also throw out The Day of the Locust, Song of Solomon and Invisible Man as candidates.

I read an essay once suggesting Gatsby was a lightskinned Black man passing as white. It was more of a thought exercise than anything else, but I enjoyed it.

That's been required reading for anyone growing up in the Philadelphia suburbs for the past 20 years. Love that book.

I was starting to worry that he wasn't serious when he called it a gospel album–and to be fair, it isn't really– but Ultralight Beams, my god. I'm not even sure if TLOP's that strong from top to bottom but I do not care one bit.

Right? It's so fascinating comparing the reactions of AV Clubbers and black women on twitter. People below are making dismissive comments about her 'pandering', which says a lot about the media they're used to consuming. Like, is it not possible that her previous work was deliberately made more palatable to your ears…

This looks like a total bummer, but a little creative editing can fix that right up! Watch for my recut, FOLEY'S FOLLIES: it's a zany black comedy about a depressed sound technician on a search for the perfect beheading sound effect!

Reading Hollywood Babylon lead me to a wiki wormhole on the silent movie and studio system era and man, there was just flagrant disregard for people's health and lives back then. Then again, they'd just outlawed child factory labor, so I guess the entertainment industry's abuses were pretty tame in comparison.

I really really like this band. Calling their later stuff harsher is a bit of a misnomer– there's still a ton of hooks there behind the distortion and Nina Persson's voice can't ever really be called difficult to listen to. They also do a couple of really fun Sabbath covers that work way better than you'd think.

Sidenote: has anyone read either of his novels? I saw The Hottest State in a used bookstore a few months back, grabbed off the shelf on a whim, and did a double take when I saw the author's portrait. I didn't buy it but I kinda wish I had.

Could you imagine if they find CTE in OJ's brain when he dies? It'd be such a fitting end to the whole thing– the man's already impacted such an enormous swath of pop culture, why not get in one final controversy?

It's not a bad movie, but man, seeing Stoker with three female friends was one of the most uncomfortable moviegoing experiences of my life. None of us knew anything about it going in (somehow I missed the posters announcing it was from the director of Oldboy) and we were all so uncomfortable that we barely even spoke…