Hey, he died in Infinity War! But he got better.

I did not make any of that up, I know very well how the story goes. I left out details not pertaining to the assault so that the comment wasn’t too long. If you’d like to make corrections, I’m open to hearing them.

No mention of the scene in Batman v Superman, where Superman flies to a mountaintop and the ghost of Jonathan Kent tells him about the time he tried to save his farm from a flood, but ended up diverting the water to another farm, and could hear the neighbor’s horses drowning while he ate his “hero cake”? Also, when…

Rosario Dawson physically assaulted a trans man while trying to forcibly evict him. She had allegedly verbally harassed him in the months leading up to it, and allegedly said things during the attack like, “Not much of a man now, are you?”

Yes, this is all alleged, but the man in question did call 911 and did receive…

Yeah, and the character is called “Mrs. Grose” almost exclusively throughout the book and The Innocents movie, with absolutely no comment. 

The Innocents was way better, and it just got a big quasi-remake on Netflix, making this feel even more redundant.  

He also wrote the second Hellraiser movie, but didn’t direct it. It brings in a lot of the wider Cenobite mythology the first movie didn’t touch, that make for the more iconic pop culture image of Pinhead. That, to me, makes it at least notable. Don’t bother with any of the others.

That’s what Cliff will say when they inevtiably meet this pair in season 3 of Doom Patrol.

She’ll turn out to be Ma Hunkel!

Nah, I actually think the movie sounds fun and cool. It’s actually an interesting, wacky concept that could be executed with a ton of empathy and produce something pretty unique and special. I was just being snarky, and you took my comment a tad too seriously. I was taking a moment to highlight the lack of asexuality…

We now have a depiction of object sexuality, complete with the full sex-life of a tilt-a-whirl, before any meaningful presence of asexuality in pop culture outside of Bojack Horseman. Cool cool cool.

I always read Innsmouth as a story about a sheltered WASPy guy going to an unfamiliar area and being shocked at the possibility for miscegenation. Like a supernatural version of Nathaniel P. Banks showing up in New Oreans.

Lovecraft was actually *unusually* racist for his day, and his extreme xenophobia is actually something that is altogether different than merely an expression of upholding the white supremacy of his day, although it is certainly something that grew out of the cultural environment in which he was raised. Lovecraft is…

Shirley Chisholm had much more in common with Bernie Sanders, though. She was the progressive candidate that college students flocked around, and even Mrs. America went out of their way to depict her as an outspoken idealist with radical populist politics unpopular with mainstream Demcorats but synonymous with the…

I think, if the writers were smart about it, you could probably do a song about being extremely pale, as long as it wasn’t framed about being about caucasian in general. 

Yeah, he’s always kinda been a boogeyman character. He works best when he’s just an inexplicable character without much mythology, grounded in real violence but lacking much context. The fact that he is so persistent and seems to slip away colors the idea that he can show up anywhere at any time, even if you think…

This episode aired in 1992, before the Simpsons episode referenced. Of course, Bart also sings these lyrics in the first ever Simpsons episode in 1989, but the 1993 episode referenced is generally more memorable. As a kid - albeit a big fan of superhero cartoons - I was definitely more familiar with the Joker version…

Tolkien at least seemed to hate apartheid and segregation, from the very very few references in his letters to them. But yeah, there’s a lot of really iffy stuff in his works.

This was well on display in Nashville last night, where most of the violence and vandalism (that resulted in a state of emergency and calling in the National Guard) was carried out by white people. It was a white kid that set the courthouse on fire (and also personally did a lot of the damage to the courthouse, such…

Heathers is, hilariously, one of the better musicals adapted from a movie. It’s a lot of fun.