There is no ethical or professional line that a Republican politician could cross and lose votes. That's the conservative movement in this country.

The connection to the Norse mythology is just the fact that Baldur is dead. Shadow is personality-less and flat because he's "dead" on the inside.

It is established that Wednesday is his father, which is enough to at least get the "Shadow = Baldur" thing started. And it does seem to have been a deliberate choice, rather than Neil Gaiman just forgetting to give Shadow a personality. So I'd say it is there in the text, but in a subtle way and not given much…

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Have you read the book? As flat as this version of Shadow is, he's a damn Faulkner-character-as-played-by-Daniel-Day-Lewis compared to the book version. Book Shadow is barely a person, to the extent that other characters in the book comment on it.

What could possibly motivate a man to steal a huge amount of money? These are the kind of questions that keep me up at night.

Hey, it worked.

I have a soft spot for M.R. James now, but it took me SEVERAL tries to get into him. I don't know if it's a generational thing, or an England-vs-America thing or what, but I find James quaint, warm, charming… and not scary at all. I enjoy his authorial voice (like sitting around a campfire with your favorite…

Aw, man. I guess that Deadwood reunion REALLY isn't happening now.

The same thing I listen to every week: Black Sabbath, Vol. 4, humanity's greatest achievement and the only work of art that matters.

RHCP, keeping the funk dialed up to about 3.

That joke would be even better if the video weren't embedded in the article.

I always heard that referred to as "an old Chinese curse," which may say something about racism in small-town Alabama.

What the fuck is Brian Williams even doing in front of a camera again?

Yeah, that's basically every emo song I've ever heard.

If the soundtrack isn't just War Party by GWAR, then I call bullshit.

I'm beginning to think I'm never going to "get" Buffy. I watched the entire first season and maybe the first couple of episodes of the second season waiting for it to click, but it never did. I just see a corny high school drama with monsters in it, and even my love of monsters isn't enough to get me interested in the…

Metal's nazi problem isn't going away any time soon. Far-right politics make for "street cred" in underground metal circles. Metal has always been music for angry young white men, nazism has always been politics for angry young white men… it was inevitable. There is a counter-current called RABM (Red and Anarchist…

I just thought of something kinda horrifying:

Watershed by Opeth, when they started their transition from fairly-overrated metal band to extremely-overrated noodly prog rock band.