I think we’ve established his friends are the people whose Facebook profiles he spends hours staring at, refreshing his screen over and over and over...

No thanks, I’ll just watch Finding Forreste-no thanks, I’ll just watch Good Will Hunti-no, thanks I’ll just watch Gus Van Sant’s early stuff.

“Over the years, Michael’s voice has come down several octaves, let me finish, and all of the cigars and the brandy, don’t, let me finish, can now be heard, and I’m not fucking finished...”

I’m not a comics nerd (the word is complimentary) but I always thought of Doctor Doom as pretty high profile villain in the Marvel universe. Why do we think he’s been absent from the MCU?  

My understanding is that he started to buy the fan perception of him as an uplifting futurist philosopher or whatever and became sort of an L. Ron Hubbard-lite figure.  

Bob Dylan hosting Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, singing and all, has a very strong Wrinkles the Clown vibe.  

If the prison guard was alive at the time I’m petitioning for an Eli Roth directed remake of Jeremiah Johnson.

Well, I’m not sure why being a lawyer means you don’t have agenda, but whatever, I didn’t think you did anyway. To be clear, I don’t know if Dylan did it and I don’t claim to know. I’m just saying there are circumstances that give a claim like this inherent credibility and that it should be taken seriously. There are…

Damn but he sounds like Michael Keaton.

I responded to you directly, explaining my stance.  The logic is quite followable if you want to follow it.  Your choice. 

Not a good summary.  yacyanwin got my perspective, you can read that.  

It’s the rape culture thing. Powerful, unaccountable men surrounded by sycophants. It happens all the time. Bob Dylan’s a weird guy who’s weird because he can be. Isolation fucks people up. Isolation on a pedestal fucks them up in a way that puts them in a position to hurt others. So yeah, I’d actually stand by your…

As a fan, I’ve honestly been fearing this for years. Because there fucking had to be something. There’s too much ego, too much entitlement, too much self-mythologizing for something truly shitty to not be under the surface. I don’t know if it’s true. Seems like there’s some circumstantial stuff that would argue…

Calling it: literally the best idea anyone has ever had. 

This guy?

Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely is a true work of art I’d recommend to anyone. As for him being an asshole, it’s been commented he had some bipolar traits and I always got the impression that living in a bubble of fame and fortune exacerbated that. When everything about you is validated but you also can’t…

That’s good to hear. You never know. Watching the online COVID-era performances, you do get the impression he’s having fun and I can definitely see how performing would be therapeutic. There’s just a difference between intimate online things and playing Radio City, so one wonders.  What a run though.  

“I mean, was Sinatra that small minded and petty?”

“I left my pancreaaaas, in Scraaaanton...”

I seriously hope family members and others haven’t pushed him to perform this long. It’s been presented as a thing that gives him purpose, focus, and happiness, and it’s absolutely astonishing he can still do it not just at 95, but at 95 several years into Alzheimer’s. I hope it’s genuinely made him happy. From what I…