You know we can read the other shit you post right?

If there’s one thing pop/arts culture doubles down on backing despite mountains of evidence that it’s a bad idea, it’s investing in the tortured artist. It feels like pro bono work, supporting the “intellectual” guy and reaping all the benefits of association with them. Once they have an artist type picked out that…

I didn’t see the episode, but apparently Hota mentioned, on air, that Matt had texted her to congratulate her. That’s so tone deaf for so many reasons. It says she needed to mention that Lauer passed her the torch and that she needed to publicly tell the world that for validation. And the fact that he’s not completely…

My money’s on Louis CK for sure. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see Kevin Spacey make an attempt, then be bewildered that the world doesn’t work like that in anymore when no one in Hollywood will touch him with a ten-foot pole.

She knew she was second bananas from the get go. Ivanka is is true love.

Ten credits says Ren will be back in the helmet in the next movie. Or he’ll have some other sort of new weird outfit that says “I’m the boss now, and the boss wears what he wants and that’s why I’m wearing this bright green cowboy hat.”

Because that was all one large story told in 7 parts (using the books) with fairly stationary protagonists and antagonists.

I was really hoping she would turn out to be a Palpatine.

Terry Zwigoff, the director of Bad Santa, just tweeted last month that every time he mentioned wanting to cast Mira Sorvino, the Weinsteins would hang up on him.

There was a time post Lupita N’Yongo’s Oscar win, we’re talking weeks here, that blind gossip items were talking on and on about how she was a flash in the pan, a one hit wonder, difficult, etc. Then when The Force Awakens happened there were more blind items about how she couldn’t act, the green screen was killing…

I’ve read Moore’s original essay several times over and I’m still mulling it over. I agree that people should be mindful of where their fantasies take them, but you obviously can’t ask permission to “look at” someone’s body. Does that mean any fantasizing about physical contact should be off limits? Or is there a…

When I was a little kid, my grandfather took me aside and gave me some advice. “Never say ‘you wanna kill’ somebody - ‘cause if that person ends up dead, they’ll come lookin’ for you.”

...and there’s the Red Herring/Strawman combo!

Dude, seriously, trying to deflect from the content of the article by saying, “Well, if they’re going to cover this, obviously they should cover houses, too,” and then seeking to cover your ass with a further, “Wait, but you must’ve included arcades in a statement that was…

The ending—Nanette raising her eyebrows while sitting back in the Captains chair—was genuinely exhilarating. A team of office workers, lead by a fierce yet plucky coder, traveling literalized cyber space and telling gamerbros to fuck off would be my jam.

I think it’s more “people who treat the space of fandom like a miniature fiefdom where their professed love of the work gives them authority are assholes, and, given access to the sort of mind-palace version of the narratives they’ve developed an unhealthy relationship with that this episode posits, they’d probably do…

What the absolute fuck is going on in this thread.

I thought the removal of Nanette’s face was a direct homage to the film version of “It’s a Good Life”.

Hot shot male doesn’t listen to orders and fucks everything up, Laura Dern (with much higher rank and more experience) has to come in to save everyone who hasn’t already died. Same hot shot male undermines her and fucks up her strategy, she has to sacrifice her life to save everyone. She still compliments him and…

I would add that there is absolutely no attempt to grapple with the actual, functional policies that are messing these people’s lives up. You would think that given how celebrated articles like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article on redlining or reparations was, you might see attempts to imitate it rather than simply dutifully…

No more need to have a jury of “your peers”, as everyone would be everyone’s peer. The sheer fact our “law and order” isn’t done this way says everything.