Shit, I gotta concede that. What was I thinking?

"Black Books" has the best song ever committed to a TV show introduction and it is amazing.

I majored in Comparative Shaolin Studies.

Hmm. "Carnival of Light" is certainly a precedent for that type of performance, but I'd think Billboard would only consider an official release for charting.

It's a trap so elegant and sophisticated that it surpasses the artistic merit of the album itself. The Wu are on top of their game here.

Billboard's made changes to their criteria to include digital downloads and YouTube video hits. I think it's only fair that they make "exclusive recorded media performance" a separate category, with Wu-Tang as the sole charted musical act, which would by default put them on the top.

Blaauow!

Good point. I think I was lumping those two together a bit, considering all the miniatures that were optically composited into the shots, but you're absolutely right in saying the achievement was more about scale than pure innovation.

Ironically, "Blade Runner" lost the award to "E.T."

In theory, it'd work as a de-escalation or stepping stone between globalized Neo-Liberalism and pure non-hierarchy. The problem is you need to prep existing infrastructure for the transition to anarchy, a plan of which I've never heard a good idea how to go about actually doing, because said infrastructure is so…

I'll admit you certainly are trying.

What's it like to live in an imaginary world of bubblegum rainbows and lemon drop mountains, where 50-something-year-old men are the only ones who can commit sexual deviance, and people edit their comments to make the replies look contradictory?

That's the point, Frank.

Yeah, dissent was only good when it meant we killed a bunch of Indians to free ourselves from Big Scary Europe.

I work in a facility that incinerates American flags that have worn out and been retired, because smelling the savory smoke of a burning American flag is the only way I can get hard.

If you treat politeness as a virtue, my advice is to stay the fuck away from politics.

I was born in a hospital and I didn't grow up to become a doctor.

If you think capitalism is in any way limited to America, I don't think you actually know what capitalism is.

I wish you'd taken Comp 101 so I wouldn't have to give myself a brain aneurysm trying to parse what you just said.

It doesn't sound like nothing. It sounds like you're defending pointless, unproductive sophistry.