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Here’s my pitch: The resistance of the East to the encroaching yoke of Sauron. You get some gritty dread, a lot of defeat, high-stakes betrayal and rebellion, and at the end some kind of Pyrrhic victory that makes LOTR possible. This way you’d get very few canonical continuity risks, increased multi-dimensional…

The Kids in the Hall (and Scott Thompson specifically) don’t get enough credit for normalizing queer culture for a whole generation of straight dudes who could’ve easily learned otherwise.

And Godot never even shows up!

I always think of Bel Biv Devoe and Boyz II Men. People like to focus on how grunge killed hair metal, but early ‘90s R&B was an unnecessary casualty of all that unkempt whiteness.

You want scary? The ‘90s didn’t actually start until 1992. Before that, everything is still extremely late ‘80s.

The decision-making baffles me. With the affection, nostalgia and renewed mainstream (and alt-comedy) cred gained from the Segal movie—which was about reviving The Muppet Show—how did they not revive the fucking Muppet Show?

Nah, I’m just using it as a springboard into my own neuroses!

I get where you’re coming from. I may not have articulated myself well. I’m concerned about something more nebulous. I’m seeing the mainstream embrace of relative truth, the death of authorial intent when lives are lived in text, bodies treated like the meatspace avatars of online profiles, your identity being…

This is admittedly an overreaction, but thinking about the creativity, intensity and energy that gets invested into these kind of ironic thought-neighbourhoods kind of scares me. I was a sardonic Gen-Xer who thought sarcasm was a great replacement for a personality and wit. I used to think post-modernism was great for…

I love Rick and Morty so much, but this video is full of all the cooler-than-thou, badassery-makes-right horseshit that I hate about Rick and Morty.

My first thought.

I think there’s more than a little addiction to story structure built into this, too. A quick, blunt break-up is really narratively unsatisfying, so yeah, you draw it out, waiting for someone to say a meaningful arthouse line or an emotional Lifetime outpouring. Maybe you wait around long enough that the other person…

Speaking a former nice guy myself, it’s really hard to resist the temptation to “be understood.” I don’t know if women experience this same thing, maybe they’re eager to just get out in case things start to feel unsafe.

Okay, but what about gift cards? If I try tipping the unused balance of a gift card, does the server even see that money, or does it go straight back to the business? I’ve heard that this happens anecdotally, but I can’t see how it’d be legal.

You know what would be wonderful? If people started to consider the law as the bare minimum standard of behavior rather than the limit of what you can do.

I think it’s precisely this kind of misunderstanding that will be #MeToo’s biggest challenge. The sense that all these recently-unearthed transgressions are somehow equivalent gives an out to people who want to rank them in order of heinousness and then only address the worst ones.

It’s the Weinstein thing, and the way that internet headlines and reporting flatten everything into a (seeming) equivalency.

I dunno, I thought his rambling reaction was quite human.

I dunno, I thought his rambling reaction was quite human.