I, too, am part of the club who had friends across the street that loved this movie, whilst I never really saw it much and paid it no mind. The one time IO did see it, at age 12 in the late 80s, I was nonplussed. I found it unpleasant.

I do love how genuinely happy Mick is in that sketch.

It’s a long-game prep for the new section, Watch Out

When you say a phrase like “seeing the Left..” that automatically reduces your credibility. There is no homogenous left or right, which is ironically the “compliment” you are paying Musk. 

I agree, but, that style of gallows humor, insensitive as it is, was pretty par for the course back in the 90s.

The conventional wisdom is that he has to hit rock bottom first. That’s still a long way to go for him. 

I really enjoyed the first 2/3, but mentally blocked out the last act.

I really enjoyed the first 2/3, but mentally blocked out the last act.

Whenever I hear the HBO “TV Static” opening bumper, my mind immediately plays the “Dream On” theme

And Tales from the Crypt I mean CMON

WHERE IS “DREAM ON” WITH BRIAN BENBEN

The fact that he continues to act like this in public, despite multiple callouts over the past 2-3 years, raising this to near-Ellen DeGeneres levels of Nice-on-TV/Dick-in-public duality, is a strong indicator that he has a long way to go mentally before he really accepts and does anything meaningful about his shitty…

I met Charlie Cox at (what I think was) a DareDevil wrap party in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He was, in person, very much like this photograph and not much like his character - affable, loose, with a very youthful and goofy demeanor. I have to say, given how he is in real life, the guy is a hellava actor.

Except he’s not grabbing you, journalists are grabbing him. There’s significant public interest in his thoughts on these adaptations, and he gets asked this all the time. 99% of the posts on Alan Moore are about this. He’s not just blogging voluntarily. These interviews are rare and his frustration that this is a…

Agreed - even though this show makes fun of the Marvel formula, it succumbs to the same issues that plague later era Marvel movies - there seems to be a more cohesive but longer story that was chopped up, and what we’re watching is mended-together chunks. 

As a parent, I can’t definitively say that a one-off dumping of a 9 year old into a trash can counts as assault. It seems pretty harmless, even if I would never ever do that. If it were repeated, even once, that would firmly land in bullying territory for me. The kid was obviously upset though, and that’s never great.…

I chortled when I read that line “the trash goes in the trash can”

But it was written by an obese person, right? It’s right there in the post. 

I heart Huckabees is one of my favorite movies, and that being in my Nerve.com profile is what persuaded my now wife to send me a “wink” on that primitive dating platform.

This. There was not NEARLY enough pre-release advertising, and then suddenly, too much, and it’s too much of nothing, just names, names, names, which is intriguing but we still need a STORY.