Soylent Green’s The Walking Dead Stray Observations: If These Suck My Lawyer Wrote Them Edition

A seemingly endless series of indelible images, and some of the best action ever committed to film. An instant classic. Mad Max: Fury Road is the only movie I have seen twice in the theater in the last decade. I just watched it on blu-ray for the first time in preparation for this column, and I don’t know if it was…

Zach Snyder just saw this and said, “Seems a bit bleak.”

I’ll say that, aesthetically, I like this weird shit, and it’s certainly more aesthetically interesting than the he-Trump’s “gold-plated-hamburger” attitude toward decor. But that doesn’t make the Trumps any less horrific pieces of shit.

If she were married to a “liberal” President, there would still be jokes, but they’d likely be about the how the bleak, scary, kind of experimental aesthetics of the decorations reflect the darker and more baffling aspects of Slavic culture - the AVClub would probably drop a Worker and Parasite reference.

Actually, I see you as rude and fucking obnoxious. My opinion of the white house decorations is just that, an opinion. It cannot be right or wrong because it is a matter of taste. You come in and say that people who don’t like her decorations are choosing to not like them only because we are either liberally-biased or…

“I’m not trying to offend anyone here though.” 

Nope. That take is as ice-cold as the spidery doom-ridden claws reaching from the frozen grave Melania has installed as Christmas decorations.

Norad’s Blair Witch tracker is already up and running, kids!

I’m fairly certain that if Michelle Obama decided that Christmas decorations should look like hallway to Hell we’d be wondering what the hell happened to her.

Does she not even get some Turkish Delight?

Black Phillip approved*

This is my favourite AV Club article so far this month.

...which in Melania Trump’s mind apparently conjures up the naked terror of running through a dark forest, alone, pursued by wraithlike shadows and the grasping claws of brittle, dead branches, the only sound the cackling of the ancient witch who will grant your wish to be rich and famous with a designer…

To get the presents, the children must survive the forest. The forest is where the elves hide and play. They are jolly little things with rows of jagged white teeth. Do not look at them. We cannot help you if you look at them.

Just gotta get through this, Melania, she thinks as she walks through the whispering wood. Just gotta get through this.

Not new or even mine, but someone once said, “This is what happens when you make enemies of all gay people”. But also, with this current administration, their SOP is that things are only great when they are the biggest, best, most incredible thing ever and thusly, Sarah’s direction must be, “Give me the MOST contour…

SAME - I was calming down in life. I was finally like “HEY LIFE IS GREAT!”

Well, there was a civil war about this sort of thing, sorta. The good guys won in the end, but it wasn’t fun for anyone involved. So, is there hope? Sure.

Fox aired a Bob’s Burgers holiday episode at an approprate time of the year? 2017 IS the craziest year that’s ever been.