A comedian I like makes a good point that Trump is the blacklight to America’s couch, i.e., there’s all this stuff that we never really noticed before, even though it was with us the whole time. 

Goddamn. Just this morning I was saying ‘you know this pipe bomb thing is gonna be completely forgotten a week from now, right?’

I think he’d like to come back inside now. 

They’re right. Most of us are barely keeping our heads under water. 

Forgive me if already addressed in comments, but...

I’ve had conversations with people saying the same thing about the original “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” I had the life-pleasure of being a prepubescent male and seeing it before any of the sequels came out. But it became so embedded in the culture and with all the sequels that even five years later it was impossible…

LOL. Yes, Bill Maher had a bit where he criticized how often directors portrayed someone as single by using the cliche of them opening their refrigerator, pulling out a Chinese take-out box, smelling it and recoiling. The bit ended with him saying, “Besides, if you want to show that someone’s not married, show them…

I still want to run into work someday, in a panic, saying “The sun can kill you! The sun can kill you! The sun can kill you!”

Well I can’t imagine anyone will have an opinion on this. 

It’s like, if those in Texas are so overtly partisan as to find nothing else wrong with him, maybe this will speak their language, i.e., showing that Ted Cruz’s public image totally fucking undermines that ‘Don’t Mess with Texas’ thing.

Like a lot of people, I suspect, about midway through Friday I decided I was going to spend the weekend avoiding the news. As someone who follows the shit so closely, that actually required some discipline.

From what I remember (been some 12-15 years since I’ve seen it), although Bale’s weight loss was something to look at, I don’t think it really had anything to do with the plot of the movie (which I liked well enough)... yeah, the body transformation seemed pointless, IMO.

I remember “Menace II Society” being a huge movie in my college years. In true fashion of males that age we just found it funny, and laughed at it more than any actual comedy.

Kind of doing the inverse of this question (i.e., using a pop culture reference yourself that no one else gets)... 

First On Race Day! 

I think the Marco Rubio encounter was the shape of things to come. Although Jones has achieved some measure of success, it looks like he’s rapidly approaching the harassing-people-in-parking-lots stage of his career (see also: Milo Yiannopoulos). 

...”still an unpleasantly sticky touchstone for a whole generation of uncomfortable VHS viewers.”

[re: above video] Oh God, was she involved with that “Walk Away” bullshit? That woman’s all kinds of things-that-aren’t-real. 

Most GIFs I see just make me think that they’re essentially the 2018 equivalent of this:

All Hollywood careers eventually fizzle out, true, but even bearing that in mind the decline of Nicolas Cage still amazes me. Just go back to like a 6-year period in the ‘90s. He was a go-to for the comedy everyman (“Honeymoon In Vegas,” “Guarding Tess,” “It Could Happen to You”), could carry a likable independent…