As a 30ish old navigating the mires of online dating…I just know there is a picture of sushi captioned #Nobu on Shake’s dating profile. And I’m sad to know it.

Deepti is clearly superior to him in every possible way, but I’ve been surprised to find myself feeling a little bit for Shake. He seems to be struggling with a lot of internalized racism, and perhaps some other issues that do not allow him to connect with a woman both physically and emotionally at the same time. A…

I’d characterise the claims on Justice League that have any substance as a bunch of dickish variations on “We don’t have time for this, just say the lines I wrote so we can move on” when faced with a cast who (rightly or wrongly) were resistant to the changes he’d been hired to make on a ridiculously tight schedule.

This interview demonstrates, better than anything else could have, just how absurdly huge Whedon’s ego has become. He truly couldn’t see how terrible all of this makes him look, because he’s already drunk on his own kool-aid.

Yeah, we can chalk that up to “00's era feminism”, through a male (read: toxic asshole) gaze.

I mean, I always felt there was a streak of misogyny in Buffy. Like for the “feminist” things they did, it seemed like it was coming from a source that didn’t really believe it.

Every bilingual immigrant in the US who speaks perfect English with an accent has experienced that Whedon quote.

The man only speaks only one American accented English, but sure, the multilingual person is the one with communication problems.

He’ll still get work, and in a few years we’ll have a new article titled “Joss Whedon: Resurrection” or something.

It sort of amazes me how so many people on Twitter (Ray Fisher apparently among them) that don’t understand just what this “profile” on Whedon is actually doing. 

Did some of these twitter users read the same article I did? The Vulture piece very effectively erases all plausible credibility from Whedon. Shapiro sets him up from the most sympathetic starting point he could possibly have, then systematically outlines the toxicity of all his relationships, romantic or professional…

I’m not saying that he wasn’t always a bully. There are plenty of stories going back years to suggest that.

Yeah, as much as it’s clear that all of his allegations against Whedon are 100% true, Ray Fisher himself has come across as a entitled, aggrandizing blowhard who’s plenty toxic himself.

A lot of these MeToo cases are followed up by the abusers in power saying some form of “It’s really bad people felt that way, I am going to use this position of power to make good in the world!”. Weinstein did it too, Louis CK did it as well. I think it’s because abusers like Whedon relish their power, and are…

Does Whedon really think the interview was about fixing his image? The whole thing is just him digging his own grave. It’s almost like did a hit piece on himself, literally attempting a career suicide.

I don’t know if it’s still on, but they were running a deal for 12 months of AMC+ for $2/month for Christmas/New Years. 

I disagree. I found it fascinating how often the “sitcom” humor actually made me laugh. It’s a satire of sitcom tripe, true, but I think it also makes a subtle point about how easy it is for high-minded "prestige TV" types to ignore/dismiss the effectiveness of sitcom writing. I think the show laughs at TV snobs as…

Naw, Biden was an improvement in the same way chopping off an arm is better than dying from gangrene. But it’s impressive how quickly people seem to forget about the pandemic that brought the world to a halt (including reducing fuel demand to all time lows).

Inflation is high now, but will prove to be more or less in…

When gas was crazy expensive under Bush after the Iraq war I remember a bunch of conservatives saying not to blame the president but whatever. 

I bought my truck from Carvana and felt like it was a scam because it was so easy. Handled everything online and chose to go to the Carvana location because we wanted to do the vending machine. Turns out my truck was too big for that, but they let us get another car out just to see it work. We signed a couple of…

Sold a car to Carvana earlier this year. The process was very simple for me. They came to my workplace, looked the car over (very) briefly, I signed a few papers, and then they loaded it up and took it away. The process took 6 minutes. The money was in my bank account the following morning. Given how briefly they…