I have similar feelings about the 2016 presidential election.

I thought “Cat Person” wasn’t very good. It struck me as watered-down Mary Gaitskill, insistent on its relevance, and the New Yorker short-fiction version of clickbait... but in that sense it was a booming success.

For me the switchover definitely brought to mind that saying “Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan.”

Which is what it comes down to, IMO. To me there’s a great irony in that these men see this as an expression of masculinity, whereas for me and most everyone I’ve ever known, a main tenet of masculinity is not getting inordinately hurt by trivial shit, or, if you do, not fucking advertising it.

The author of “Paperbacks From Hell” celebrated being named on of the AV Club’s best books of 2017 by posting on Facebook “Paperbacks from Hell becomes one of The AV Club’s favorite books of the year. You hear that, George Saunders? That clattering noise in your hall? That’s me and my skeletons coming for your ass.”

Morrissey needed some recovery time.

Celebrities/artists are one thing, but I’m more confused by how the concept keeps getting applied to FOOD, i.e., So-and-so said what!? Well I never liked the food anyway.

My favorite AV Club movie review pan ever was in 2012, by Keith Phipps, for “American Reunion”:

That joke is Kaufmann-esque at its best, i.e., he still could’ve made the joke with the desk being half that height, but he literally goes over the top to maximize the joke’s absurdity. The first time you saw that joke it was pretty much impossible not to laugh at it.

I’m not Herb.

You know, as absurd as this book looks, it is part of a fucking genre. Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, etc. Probably the closest antecedent would be the one several years ago by Michael Savage (Weiner): a political commentator becomes an action hero battling Islamic terrorists while avoiding attacks on his character by…

Was the infamous “ending monologue” in the theatrical release? I’ve never seen ODG, but I seem to remember at the time that it was removed for the release after testing direly with test audiences. I specifically remember Kurt Loder on MTV reporting that the monologue sent test audiences “fleeing for their sanity,”…

It’d be more fitting if he were holding a highball in that picture.

Not all of us, just most.

No shit. Even if you’re not into the mythos of the movies, at least for the visual audacity of it. Hope it’s not frozen out of Oscars.

I’ve noticed Christians really seem to have a persecution complex. I wonder why that is.

Because, especially if you’re retired, there’s not a waking moment you can’t spend ensconced in the right-wing media bubble. Websites are constantly updated, local and national talk shows are on throughout the day, and just when their programming is starting to lag, it’s the evening and you can tune into the evening…

Wow guys, you, uh, really made Obama look stupid alright.

Reading this message board does really make me ponder whether this should be deeply alarming or dismissed out of hand as more conservative bullshit. As someone who’s consumed right-wing media, I’ve always said that it doesn’t matter if the man on the air believes what he’s saying, it’s whether the audience does.

I made the decision NOT to read anything in December. Because of certain factors in my personal and work life this month drives me crazy with its constant demands and revised-daily, endless list of shit to do. Because I need to read a good 25-50 pages a day to stay engaged with a book, and I knew I couldn’t keep up…