I’m sure he’s a bag of shit, I just don’t think a 50 year old is a bag of shit for something they did as a minor. Asking for a court to reconsider the lifelong impacts of a juvenile offense isn’t necessarily about not caring, it’s about moving on. To be clear, I work in public defense so my reasons for piping up about…

OK. Generally speaking the perpetrators of stuff like that don’t apologize to their victims. Not necessarily because they aren’t sorry or don’t care, but because doing so is often rightly seen as self-serving and, besides, do you really want to hear from the asshole who bullied you in fourth grade? Sometimes it’s just…

Yes, well, that’s real dumb. Maybe he meant that Dirk Diggler could have defeated the terrorists with one swing of that mighty penis, plus a couple karate moves for presentation’s sake. Because that would be completely reasonable.

Just wondering, why are people mad at Mark Wahlberg? He’s guilty of two horrible hate crimes well over three decades ago, when he was a teenager. No debate there. To my knowledge he’s completely disavowed his own behavior and nothing he’s done since remotely indicates he still thinks that way. I don’t make it my…

You’d prefer he stay a racist underwear model?  

I’m just not interested anymore. He’s a great comedian, I loved his show. But there was something about his appeal, about how he presented himself, that relied on a certain trust. He set himself up as a role model for straight white men, flawed but self-effacing, pathological but compassionate. That was, for me, a big…

Speechless.

Maybe just insert that somewhere random in, say, the Annabelle franchise, wrap it up in one movie, and move on.

No love for the good Mr. Tillman?  The man’s clergy after all.  

Oh, why does everyone have to be a shithead?  Maybe be meant it!  Maybe it’s a confluence of conscience and self-interest.  OK fine, it’s almost certainly a confluence of conscience and self-interest but that’s only half a reason to be cyncical! 

I’ll buy that. I’m anti-tomato myself, but I would be down with a little jalapeno.

The sociopolitical implications of inflation.  Grilled-cheese sandwiches.  Daffy Duck: Bob Clampett or Chuck Jones version?  My aunt’s sciatica.  Any.  Other.  Topic.  

Perfectly executed movie. It would be good if you took it out of its setting and just did a classic noir. But in the high school setting it all becomes a metaphor for the secret lives of teenagers, and the relatability of that in turn makes it a better noir.

For some reason this is the first moment I’ve connected the fact that the movie is called Doctor Strange In the Multiverse...OF MADNESS with it being a Raimi film. Just saying, that fits real well.

The Departed. She throws him out of the office the first time she sees him for no notable reason, then sleeps with him. She should lose her license.  I never saw In Treatment but I think it’s some of the same stuff.  There’s nothing wrong with showing a therapist as human and flawed, but for fuck’s sake at least…

So we’re self-medicating for our manic stuff and it’s going poorly. That sucks, for them and the people around them. Hope they’re able to address it before everything comes crashing down. Notable many people dealing with similar things do not have near-infinite resources. Maybe best to, you know, use those.

It’s almost as if you’re implying James Bond is the result of his creator’s personal insecurities and need to overcompensate and I WON’T HAVE IT.  

Per Wikipedia that looks fascinating, though the problem with a movie about Christopher Lee is that it would just emphasize the fatal flaw of any movie that doesn’t star Christopher Lee: not starring Christopher Lee.

Your mom’s already broken a prosthetics record.  

...it’s important to contextualize them as a means to often support larger, more complex and diverse stories.