Well, all I can tell you is that music criticism as an industry could not possibly be more in the tank for Taylor Swift-style pop. That’s what makes these complaints so bizarre: they are predicated on the notion that they’re fighting some terrible rockist establishment that does not exist.

Speaking generally, I guess I just don’t understand, in 2015, what “poptimists” are so worried about. They’ve been utterly victorious. Every old dead cliche about a rock critic establishment that hates chart pop is just that: dead. Hipsters proclaim their love for all things chart pop. Every major music publication in…

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I just don’t agree with your take on the basketball being played. Cavs/Bulls was a dispiriting slog with bad shooting. Clippers/Rockets had an exciting finish but tons of intentional fouling, unintentional fouling, and James Harden doing that stupid stirring the soup celebration. Memphis/Golden State was pedestrian,…

I agree with the conventional wisdom that the league has in general never been better, but these playoffs have been pure butt. Clips/Spurs was a great series, sure, but overall there’s been a lack of competitive series, injuries, brickfests, hacking, and overall a real letdown from a great regular season.

I agree with Devin Faraci: movies are more fun when they don’t explain everything.

I’ve never been into the show. To me, it always reminded me of when every comic book decided to go “grim and gritty” in the 90s. One most juvenile things to believe is that constant senseless hopelessness and violence are somehow inherently mature. It’s a 13 year old boy’s vision of what adult art should be like.

so the people who are freaking out about this get that Joker is a mass murderer, right

Yeah but, again, I’m not trying to shot call you. I’m saying that still appears to be judging a process by its outcome.

“Six days later, Jackson’s ignorance is on display for all the world to see”

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Of course it’s creepy. It’s meant to be creepy. I don’t see anything in the movie that suggests that Besson thinks it would be OK for Leon and Matilda to cross the line. I think the point is that Matilda is so scarred and in such a weird place that she misdirects her need for paternal love into feelings of romantic…

My brother is a tailor, so I’m spoiled, but alterations are in fact quite cheap and $50 of tailoring can make a $300 suit look better than a $2000 suit.

No sport needs a union more badly; no sport is less likely to get a union. It’s bleak.

Totally brutal. These guys are paid so poorly as it is. I do miss the sport itself occasionally, but I’ve never regretted walking away from following the UFC a couple years ago.

Grantland’s contributors page lists55 names: 24 staff writers, 14 editors, and 17 contributors, most of whom write fairly often. Another 12 editors not listed as contributors show up on Grantland’s masthead. That’s 50 editorial staffers, plus a deep pool of regular contributors.

I did. I just had a split second and I couldn’t imagine the awkwardness of refusing. So I shook his hand and on the way out took about three pumps of his secretary’s hand sanitizer.

I was early and nervous, as you tend to be for job interviews. I went to the bathroom to try and calm down and pass the time. A guy was clearly taking a number 2 in a stall. He comes out and walks right out the door without washing his hands.