The Met Gala is a once-a-year fundraiser for the Costume Institute, which is just one wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The actual museum is open seven days a week and is free/pay-what-you-want for all New York state residents and NY, NJ, and CT students.

I wish tv and film could present sexual awakening in women without threesomes. It is so tired at this point.

Like porn previously was for Eve, Julian is forbidden. He is 19 years old and a former classmate to her son and the object of his bullying. Yet, she is drawn to him because of (maybe I’m projecting but) his tender eyes, awkward gait, and trembling half-smile.

This story gave me such a raging boner.

This isn’t necessarily my argument, but I think a lot of people thought that #metoo was signalling some kind of significant shift in the culture where we were going to start taking sexual assault more seriously than we had been. Ultimately, that didn’t really happen.

“Deleting Jackson turned out to be easy; after watching the doc, I lost my appetite for his music completely.”

I’m a little confused here. These allegations have been around forever. Jackson had been to court multiple times to respond to sexual assault allegations. Why would the documentary be the straw that broke the camel’s back aside from the fact that it came out after some arbitrary line in the sand was drawn that says…

“responsible consumption” as a dictate is such an insane rabbit-hole to go down that I don’t even know where to begin. the moral virtue, for example, of listening to a more woke rapper like Chance then Kanye, seems to be significantly diluted when you considered the fraught morals of how you are consuming in the first…

This is tough when it comes to Michael Jackson, not so much others. It’s hard to have been born in the 70's or 80's (or shit 90's maybe too) and not remember Michael Jackson music always having been around at some point. It was just a part of life. Music I loved. Hell there have been two commercially successful covers…

I’ve never understood the rich people obsession with all white interiors in their houses. What’s the appeal of making it look as bland as possible? Is it just to flex that you can afford professional cleaners? These folks need to visit some of the classic robber baron homes of the last 19th century with mahogany…

That’s why I liked it more when it was called ‘call out culture’ instead of ‘cancel culture’. The point is to out predators so people can more likely avoid being preyed on by them and make their own choice about how they feel about consuming the art they’ve produced. It doesn’t have any magical power to actually…

Don’t forget about habitual woman beater Chris Brown.

Outside of a few specific examples, “canceling” just means a few weeks of being clowned on across social media.

Bad news. Its never going away it’ll just evolve and shift. Right now we’re in the post-boom which is great as this is when the creative stuff starts happening. Namely deconstructions like The Boys start popping up, and odder takes like Joker and Legion. Following this comes synthesis and then it’ll settle into a…

If you liked Goodfellas, you’ll like The Irishman. But you’ll like Goodfellas more than The Irishman.

Yes he will be impeached. No he won’t be convicted in the senate. It’s not gonna happen, period. Comparing it to Nixon isn’t realistic, because we quite simply live in a very different world now. Nixon was forced out because he was a “law & order” president who was voted in based on his supposed principals. Once his…

Interesting fact: CNN has an article today that Dollar General is expanding, opening 1,000 new stores next year, and their profits are up 11% as well. My first thought was “duh, the stock market is not the economy and average people aren’t doing any better” and then later on they even point out that DG knows their…

But of course you must see that these things are intertwined. House Democrats showing that they do stand for rule of law will do way more to motivate turnout (the ONLY way we win) in 2020 that if they throw up their hands at the first sign of a roadblock.

The irony being the bureaucratic system spent $500 to determine should only get $10 a month. You see, a lobbyist talked a corrupt politician, probably for a $1,000 donation, that XYZ Corporation could manage food stamp recipients to avoid fraud. So, XYZ Co. got a $150 million contract to save the government $7 million…

My MIL used to do this once she retired. She was like an Army general. She was very active in her tiny non-Catholic church and would drive around in her beat-up car brow-beating local supermarkets and food places to give her everything they were going to throw away but was still edible. Bruised fruit and vegetables.…