That Wang Chung take was incorrect. “Dance Hall Days” rules, and it’s not even close.

There is plenty of Samberg in B99, but don’t give it a pass on his account, because you’ll be cheating yourself of two of the best deadpan comedy performances I’ve ever seen from Andre Braugher and Stephanie Beatriz. 

Are the names *that* silly? I mean, we live in a world in which words like “Google” and “Bing” are just generally accepted product names. I know it’s fun to dunk on Apple, but there are far, far sillier things in the world to call out. 

Yes, but if we acknowledge that, then we can’t write snarky, “ZOMG, a TURTLE, how SILLY” takes on the Internet, and then where would we be?

Putting the child sex scene aside (can we, please? Jeez, we get it - it sucked and was weird then; it sucks and is weird now), the other things you mentioned were some of my favorite parts of the book. Yes, turtle god. Yes, crazy ritual. Yes, total metaphysical layer that makes this about more than just a scary…

Yep, fridging Bev is the movie’s greatest sin and the one change from the book that made me actively angry. 

Holy shit, I could not disagree with the general anti-metaphysics take in this article The whole psychic battle of wills thing fucking *makes* the climax of IT, the book, for me. One of my hugest disappointments around the movie was the way it turned the battle against Pennywise from something that was really a test…

I have to say, as scary as as all this stuff can be, I’m really starting to tire of headlines that say we should be afraid, or terrified, or stuff along those lines. We shouldn’t be afraid. We should be outraged. Terrified people aren’t generally inclined to fight back, which is something that needs doing a lot more…

It’s funny - you mentioned all the qualities of wireless headphones *but* the one that makes me not want to buy them: audio fidelity. Show me the pair of bluetooth earbuds or (affordable) wireless over-the-ear headphones that have the same response across the full range of frequencies as these $49 wired over-the-ear…

Season of the Witch or GTFO.

Lovecraft Country is an outstanding book, and Peele’s attachment to it is one of the great fits of talent to source material of recent TV vintage. I’m really excited to see what comes of it.

I’ve been using Facebook a little more, mostly because I’ve been using Twitter a lot less in an effort pull myself out of that particular cesspool. Soooo...it’s all Instagram from here on, then?

Also, get out of here with this “exes can’t be friends” stuff. Grow the fuck up, people. I’m friends with more than one ex, and those relationships ended somewhat acrimoniously. I mean, were we buds right on the heels of the breakup? Of course not. People need time to heal and move on. But, eventually, we recognized…

How does Utah not even get mentioned in the conversation about whitest state? 

Allow me to retort: I hated it. 

Man, this review got much more empathy out of this show than I did. Yes, it shows its main antagonist’s origins...but only just. Like, it’s one scene, and then, from that point on, he gets more and more awful. And, when it comes to Jack Ryan...the guy can just do no wrong. He’s the smartest guy in the room at all…

I have been teetering on the brink for a while, now. I kiiind of need it for my job and to promote certain creative pursuits...but it’s not really producing material results on that front, so...yeah. It’s getting to be that time. 

Man, Tarantino totally undercuts himself in that scene by misquoting the actual line in the movie. He sets up this really compelling take on the film, and then punctuates it by making up a line that would sound erotic in any context rather than sticking with the source material.

Slider...*sniff*. You stink.

Ah, man, that’s a bummer, because this is just the perfect time for a bunch of jingoistic bullshit at the movies, socio-politically speaking.