Came to say the same. I know AVClub has kinda turned their operation into a content mill but this is next-level.

Tokarczuk is fantastic and should be more widely read. I would recommend almost anybody take a stab at one of her earlier ones, “Primeval and Other Times”. She’s as much of a literary visionary as the Nobel would imply, even if she’s not yet talked about as one. 

Let me say as somebody who matches that description almost perfectly: it can happen. I don’t think, however, it comes from a place of emotional HEALTH, usually. Dan is right to suggest some tension there.

I quite liked being single, and with a little luck, I could usually manage to hook up with somebody on any given…

I like to start people on a Yes, Yes, No because they showcase the personality, but my favorite thing about Reply All is that they’ve graduated into, really, essential tech journalism and even politics but they have maintained zero interest in the conventional wisdom about a subject.

I was a little confused by…

Where the f$*# is Rhea Seehorn on this list. 

I wrote it off before realizing it was Damon Lindelof and Leftovers collaborator Craig Zobel. I had been skeptical Watchmen would land on anything interesting after seeing the first episode, but now, I think he might be the exact right man to take a Hannity wet dream and light it up from the inside. 

The Conservative Outrage Machine doesn’t really have a setting for “irony” or “levelheadedness”. It’s all maximalism all the time over there.

Damn man. I’d kinda given up on Kotaku, and found this via the AVClub. This is an essential perspective and one I’d hoped to read as a lay-, nigh-lapsed gamer. Thank you for writing this.

I had kinda forgotten they beat out the finale of Mad Men AND a solid season of The Americans. That is insulting. It’s not really W&W’s fault that the Academy feels locked into continuing to reward things because they’ve rewarded them before, but nonetheless, I feel like it would be reasonable to ask them to give…

It was a good story, but I had some problems with what often sounds a bit like salivation on BuzzFeed’s part. They may have inherited the old Gawker house style, translatable as “hypocrisy is the tastiest dish we can possibly imagine, when will you be serving yours?”. The whole thing feels a little bit bloodthirsty.

Wh…

After I did Gravity’s Rainbow a couple of years ago and loved it, then doing the massive, hip-height Anniversaries: A Year In The Life Of Gesine Cresspahl over the course of several months, I took a break from big books. I just got a little hankering for Pynchon again and went out and got Mason & Dixon and finally…

Hey motherfuckers.

I understand that this is going to be the Emmys where many awards are given to Game of Thrones alumni in apology for all the seasons they missed rather than for their heroic efforts to carry D&D’s lazy, anachronistic dialogue this year, but if they give those guys a trophy this year, too, I’m rioting.

Dude, 100%. The one where he’s creeping towards the camera in the beginning of the video? That was when I first realized the Jim Crow connection and the chill does set in around then and doesn’t leave much. Also, seriously, without that it’s just like “calypso-tinged gospel switching it up with hip hop”. That…

The Jim Crow-style dance was the first thing I noticed and it freaked me the hell out. That that kind of choreography was ever considered entertaining by white Americans is one fact that really puts me in touch with how fucked up we were for hundreds of years.

Another observation: the kids that are dancing behind him…

What’s the problem? Netflix has steered the middle course here between allowing devoted bingers to drip the sweet content heroin straight into their eyeballs (without the needle of a title sequence) and preserving the title sequences for purists like us. They have a button, and you can choose to click the button.

Maybe…

Part of it is that it’s just too difficult to buy. I mean, there’s this Vulture article Katie linked to in here that’s just wall-to-wall Louis saying moderate, lovely things about how to treat people like people and in this other universe he’s got somebody locked in their dressing room and he’s jerking off? I don’t…

Is anybody seeing the crazy resemblance to Ian Curtis (Joy Division) in the second to last photo? No? Just me?

I'm kind of wondering if cheerful_exgirlfriend knows he's a comedian and not like... Sarah Palin or something.

Here's the problem: what does your friend consider the more likely outcome, based on his insider perspective, when we consider that these are industry giants who for years have let their infrastructural backbone stagnate at 2007/8 throughputs instead of upgrade them? Who have let entire corners of America twist two…