The Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune of the Apes.

“Cypher is a New Yorker”.

‘X-Men: First Class’ is a fun little flick, but man it does not do well by it’s characters of colour. Angel, as you say, betrays the team, and Darwin, a Black mutant whose power is “adapt to literally anything to survive” is the one member of the group to get straight-up killed, and then is not mentioned again.

“Kind of like the made up idea that minorities can’t be racist.”

It really tied the pool together.

There have been a couple of articles I’ve read recently that feel like they would have been slideshows just a month or two ago but now were allowed to be just one simple-to-read story.

It does feel like maybe the folks at Paste has been fans of the pre-Spanfeller Club and just came in saying, “We want to see that stuff again.”

We don’t go for them much in Australia, but I do remember there was quite the controversy about one that was done for Molly Meldrum many years back. I didn’t watch it myself, but apparently it was just an endless barrage of homophobic jokes towards someone pretty well liked in this country.

“[G]athering the opposite of a Suicide Squad with his big ensemble cast”.

It’s a tactical turtleneck. A Tactleneck, if you will.

The first time I saw this image was on my Facebook feed, and I did think it was AI generated for a hot second.

I haven’t watched this yet, and honestly might not at all, but I appreciate Mulaney taking swings even if they don’t work out. ‘The Sack Lunch Bunch’ was a risk and could have cratered, but I really liked it.

It’s also kind of weird because one of the underlying themes of ‘Baby J’ was “I’m John Mulaney, a real person and not just whatever thing you’d like me to be.” The person and the thing he does are two separate things. No matter how much he might use his personal life to develop material, he still gets to draw that…

“This one comes from Emily Blunt, who recently lived up to her last name on The Howard Stern Show.”

As much as I love the LOTR films, and I do, for a lot of it you’re being asked to care about things that are by their nature abstract: magic rings, battles between imaginary kingdoms, supernatural evil. Theoden, when he’s mourning the loss of his son, brings it back down to something real and visceral, and my God did…

The AV Club

Line of the night, though “You look like you’re about to eat lunch on a steel girder” is a close runner-up.

Is Jim Davis’ house from ‘I Think You Should Leave’ available?

A great place if you like the month of March.

I’ll be visiting Brisbane for the first time this July. Looking forward to it.