Slavic.

There’s a pretty well-known poem based on the fact that ravens can indeed imitate human speech.

Your point about the timeline rests on the assumption that management is telling the truth about it, so your argument is persuasive only insofar as we take Activision’s honesty as a given. Since this article implies the company is lying about its motives, that’s not likely to be a satisfactory premise.

That was a tactical retreat, which he made only after being challenged, from “She doesn’t write her own songs.” What he said was perfectly clear, and she seems to have interpreted it correctly.

Right. If someone lumps you in with everyone else in your genre and forgets who you are, what is there to be offended about?

I doubt there’s a single person at Spotify who isn’t feeling a ton of either regret or anger over the Joe Rogan deal. What a fucking headache.

Brilliant concept art direction, story, etc. Art-deco, Dia de los Muertos-themed, bureaucratic underworld as the setting of a film noir? Perfect. I get the feeling Pixar’s Coco, er, “took inspiration” from it. Then again, the “bureaucratic hell” gag is reminiscent of Beetlejuice.

It’s borderline criminal that they never actually followed through with a sequel to Full Throttle.

This is honestly the most bizarre opinion I have ever read on the A.V. Club, and that’s saying something.

If anything's gonna neutralize gay camp, it's a sparkly purple costume.

John Goodman is going to go down as one of the greatest non-leading actors in history. His performance in Barton Fink is simultaneously funny, endearing, disarming, and absolutely terrifying (somehow with none those first three qualities getting eclipsed by the fourth one). His performance in The Big Lebowski brought…

This shit sucks.

I have never seen an episode of this show. I have, however, seen this clip, which I will share with you for no particular reason other than that it is fucking sublime:

He (or the copy editor) has it down pat. He uses a semicolon twice to conjoin independent clauses with a close semantic relationship (in other words, clauses that could be joined by a coordinating conjunction but optionally omit any). He also uses it to punctuate a series in which one item contains its own comma…

So it rips the veneer off the veneer?

You call it a “piss-poor media stunt,” but the typical AV Club snark only serves to shortchange this performance artist, for we have here a masterful interplay of ambiguity and resolution. While his shirt screams “asshole,” his prop of choice interposes the possibility of mental illness. He then clarifies he’s an…

The indefinite article gives the novel’s title a completely different tone. It almost sounds like a fun jaunt. “Hey, I’m gonna go interview a vampire. Let’s see how it goes!”