Meryl Streep's whole life has been leading up to this role, and I for one cannot wait.

I made a joke that I'd be totally down for an all-dancehall Drake album, but the more I think about the more I wish that was what Views actually was.

How many parties do you think this dude's ruined by putting on a Cannibal Ox record? I'm setting the o/u at 4.5 and taking the over.

Yeah, I'd agree. I'm a lot higher on Drake that most others around these parts, but Views was a slog. It didn't need to be 20 songs long, and I felt like he was just hitting the same notes as TC and NWTS, but in a less interesting way.

I get putting Beyoncé's name and photo on the article is going to get clicks, but it's still kinda dispiriting. It's all the worse because the interview's great, but look at this comment section. That said, Bennett sounds like he'd be amazing to talk to in person– dude's probably got hundreds of stories too salacious…

I'm surprised how little I've seen the Fighting Temptations mentioned in these retrospectives. All the talk of how unapologetically black her recent output is never seems to mention the fact that she was on a (really good!) gospel album back in 2003.

Don't Hurt Yourself and Sorry are both really good. I'm pretty meh on the rest of it, but those two songs are worth it.

Strokemon, the Pokémon parody, was probably our biggest. It was huge. And SpongeKnob SquareNuts. Fap To The Future was pretty big. Game Of Bones was pretty big. Gnardians Of The Galaxy was pretty big. Bob’s Boners? Huge. It did very well.

No exaggeration to say he was so ridiculously talented only other super-talented people really appreciated how amazing he was. He was just always there growing up, this ethereal figure with a dozen perfect songs. It would've been better somehow if he was visibly aging, but it just seems like such a impossibility that…

The whole series has always been more political the standard action film, though. I mean, the central plot of the original trilogy is that the CIA is trying to conceal that they're running a team of supersoldiers to perform extrajudicial assassinations for political reasons.

I have zero shame about loving each and every one of these mid-2000 songs and videos. Just looking at the youtube thumbnails brings back memories of AXE and water bottles full of vodka and gatorade.

Pirates of the Carribean made me raise an eyebrow. Also, I'm surprised no Pixar films made the list.

Chinatown only winning one Oscar will always be weird to me. I get that it came out in the same year as Godfather Part II, but still. Art Carney beating Hoffman, Pacino and Nicholson is really something in hindsight.

They didn't some of the really damning stuff, and most of what they did see was found by a virulent racist who perjured himself on the stand. OJ totally did it, but my god, the LAPD and DA fucked that up beyond belief. I can honestly see how the jurors got to a "reasonable doubt."

Reasonable doubt, dude. I believe the LAPD framed a guilty man.

Convict? I would've been the dude arguing for innocence!

…the guy sounds like a dying robot dog

Saw them on their South American tour (shut up, a friend gave me a comp ticket) and I'm not gonna lie, it was a fun show.

You can skip ahead and read whatever, since each book works as a standalone story. LA Confidential and White Jazz draw a lot more upon previously established characters than Black Dahlia and Big Nowhere, but you'll definitely enjoy any of them. For what it's worth, I think Big Nowhere is my favorite of the three…

Muphry's Law strikes again!