I seem to remember a cool little network of blogs that was struggling for years to find a devoted userbase and dozens of talented writers until a kindly old group of billionaires stepped in to help them out. And that little network of blogs, whom nobody liked, grew up to be... sold off piece by piece until maybe one …

He nearly had a gig on Colbert, but it didn’t go well...

One commenter recently posted that they continued to come here out of muscle memory, which describes perfectly my irrational ongoing AV Club habit.  I really just thought one day the comments plug would be permanently pulled and that would be that.  Never expected this kind of resurrection.

Keep up the good work! I was just kidding about the Cancer AIDS. But I am looking to get a Community notification for this when you interview Joel McHale someday! 

You’ve brought a tear to this old interviewer’s eye...

Hey Josh, this simple notification is closing in on 400 comments. Tell your folks that if they build it, they will come.

I’m pretty sure that was my gateway into The Mountain Goats so if you did it was a shared hallucination.

Huh, I hadn’t even realized Marnie had left. I loved seeing them all play at home during the lockdown episodes. Don’t see them much anymore and I guess I kinda stopped paying attention. 

Turns out the real jackals were the people running the show...

One word: Dawes.

I DIDN’T STOP DOING RANDOM ROLES UNTIL 2022!

Already there, my man. Check out my Christine Lahti from last week!

I’m really looking forward to again seeing the entire AV Club staff of the time hitting the “Hail Satans” on Nathaniel Rateliff’s take of “The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton.” (I don’t think I imagined that, right?)

And I just have to say, the possibility of a resurrected AV Club makes me so, so happy. The old school original version was one of the very best things about the old, pre-enshittified internet, and that it could rise from the ashes like a Phoenix gives me hope that all is not yet lost.

Holy shit, I honestly thought the old Undercover videos were going to be lost forever. And a new season to boot? Things are looking up around here.

If we’re talking staff, let’s get Will Harris on Random Roles again

Run the Series is back: https://www.avclub.com/film/features/run-the-series

I’m a long time AV Clubber.  And losing Kinja would be marvelous.  Please bring back the community we once had.  I thought Disqus worked great at the time, and I don’t know if it would be the solution this time around, but something apropos please!

I don’t have a song selection in mind (I mean... “Tubthumping” got done already).  But hey, if y’all are hiring, toss Nathan Rabin an assignment or two.

“...we’ve been busy working to migrate the site off of Kinja and onto our own platform. There are a lot of changes in the works—scrubbing any AI-generated content; hiring a new editor-in-chief; bringing back some familiar writers and adding some new ones we hope you’ll like;”