You sure am, Cookie Monster, but that’s why me love you. 

Stupendous Man, congratulations on living up to your name. You have alchemized an analogy of pure comedy gold.  

Ah, you’re completely right. As each new Star Wars spinoff and trilogy movie becomes a bigger risk with smaller rewards, of course they’re going to use the three guaranteed money makers they have in reserve. This is the company that made a live action version of Beauty and the Beast that basically only existed to make…

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The issue is actually doing something would require anybody creatively or financially involved in the Simpsons going off of autopilot. I don’t think that will actually happen since at this point it’s pretty much impossible for the Simpsons to be unprofitable. 

I was looking for this in the comments - Sign o the Times is the best Prince album, but Purple Rain is the definition of “all killer no filler”. 

I feel that, except I’m in New York, so it’s always pointing out that being supportive but incredibly condescending to minority groups kind of neutralizes the point of being an “ally”. People fucking love to pat themselves on the back for not burning crosses or saying the n-word, kind of like the “nice guys” who think…

Doug Jones isn’t a lefty, he’s just one of the dozen white men in Alabama who thinks bombing a church and killing little black girls is something worth prosecuting. Oh yeah, I guess he also crosses the low, low bar of not being a pedophile.

That’s true, but at this point we are well aware that the house is burning down. At this point you’re being a smug asshole if you’re reminding me about the ongoing fire and not trying to help put it out. I don’t mind Trump stories, but there’s gotta be more depth to them than what we’re getting now. 

Even under Obama and LBJ there was plenty of racists in government too. They were just a plurality rather than a majority. 

It still kind of does - take the Marlon Bundo book last week as an example. That made a lot of its own headlines, it just didn’t feel like it was bringing anything new to light. Like it’s good to give money to LGBT charities and remind us that Mike Pence is a homophobe, but his wife’s picture book isn’t really a…

“People” referring to me expected this from the moment that guy walked down the escalator and all my friends couldn’t stop talking about how hilarious he was while forgetting that he was targeting an audience that believes being the target of a joke is the equivalent of Soviets airbrushing you out of history.

I feel you - the show used to feel more like a 60 minutes style news magazine where it was like “you haven’t heard about this topic? then let’s talk about it in incredible detail for 20 minutes with a couple of jokes to hold your attention.” Now it feels like the point is more the jokes and the viral fame than the…

He didn’t get to read his acceptance speech last year? That’s crazy that the Oscars wouldn’t take responsibility for their fuck-up and at least give the guy a minute to give a speech. I get they have all sorts of weird time constraints but still, wow.

This review was spoiled for me when I saw the trailer for this movie before Annihilation.

No confuison, I’m just more responding to Sean O’Neal’s point about Return of Bruno being from what David Duchovny is doing now. I was just saying they’re both fairly artificial performances of “authenticity”. When celebrities aren’t involved, that’s definitely a whole different story.

Yeah, I guess there’s more legitimate musicians in the world of roots-rock than Belushi blues, but it’s still mostly the same things - incompetent actor frontmen backed by decently to incredibly talented musicians.

How are any of those examples ambiguous? Calling homosexuality a choice, opposing gay marriage, and opposing gays in the military are all pretty explicitly anti-LGBTQ. Most of the “logic” he’s using to back up those positions is pretty thin, and explicitly anti-gay if you take it to its full conclusions.

Is there really a difference between Belushi Blues and Roots-Rock? I feel like that’s like calling a caterpillar and a butterfly two different animals, considering how the main features that distinguish them are time. 

That’s the weird part right? I’d imagine being a famous gives you all kinds of great material. But pretty much every album like this just wants to luxuriate in the cliches.