He knows what he did.

You'd think they'd at least come back as LED Soundsystem.

You can also cover it with something dry like Damien Rice.

"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."

The way I look at it is, Trump didn't succeed — we failed. There was always going to be this hateful, stupid portion of the country that would vote for him, and they showed up as expected. The challenge was to rouse the portion of the country that was discontented and dispirited and fed up with politics as usual, and…

But…I only want to see things I want to see!

They're dead…inside!

To anyone who hasn't read David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, I cannot recommend it more — though you really need to listen to the audiobook to get the full effect. It's probably the weirdest yet most inspiring self-help book I've ever encountered.

Spoiler: The A.V. Club was dead the entire time!

Huh, thinking about Sixth Sense that way is interesting. Because that's what we now remember most about that movie, but it was actually almost completely incidental to the story. Normally I would expect a movie with a big plot twist to actually, y'know, twist the plot, so it fundamentally affects our understanding of…

I find suspense to be much, much more powerful than surprise. Seeing the dynamite under the table and waiting for it to go off!

Oh yeah, I would definitely agree that he hit a major slump during that period, the nadir being the books after his accident. From a Buick 8, Dreamcatcher, Cell…King is too good of a storyteller for those books to be unreadable, but they certainly felt listless and kind of pointless. But honestly, aside from Joyland,…

(1) I was thinking about this when I saw Guardians of the Galaxy 2 recently. This movie featured a plot twist that was not really all that surprising, and some climactic extreme peril for our heroes that wasn't really that perilous since there was basically zero chance that our main characters wouldn't survive the…

That's why I tend to roll my eyes whenever I see one of these pieces that presumes to speak for some imagined "us." There was one hand-wringing piece on another site about how Westworld has been "ruined" by fan theorizing, and it's like, ruined for who? Basically the author and the sliver of the audience that chooses…

Bleh.

Pia Zadora's a father? Mazel tov!

What we really need is a Batman movie based on "Batdance."

HONEYCRISP 4 LYFE

io9? I don't even need to look.

I'm a huge Stephen King fan, but I think for the past decade the guy has been writing books more out of habit than any real creative inspiration.