you are very right. The worst thing about the later bits of fringe was that they dropped the theme of olivia reasserting her agency in the face of people trying to deny her agency.

That would have been perfect. (I’m watching it now, and I can’t quite shake how much it’s haunted by the 80s). 

San Francisco has 4000 more homeless people on the streets than it has shelter beds. 

There is a counter go fund me. I think it’s mostly just to be a “fuck you” to the guys running the original one, but hey. I don’t mind supporting more advocacy for housing for the homeless. 

I would not call anything along the embarcadero or SOMA residential. They’ve added big towers down there, but it’s still all brownfield down that way

I’m not even sure how you find a more affordable neighborhood in SF. Urgh. I hate these arguments with NIMBYs so much. I almost prefer it if they went full trump and demanded a wall to keep out the subhumans, it would be better than listening to them preach liberal values and then come up with all the excuses for why…

See the thing is, even if I valued that argument, SOMA isn’t some historical high value area. It was the industrial section of the city, and the homeless have been there for ages. The high rises came later. So when these people are like “I don’t want the homeless around my neighborhood” what they mean is “i don’t want…

Victoriocity is brilliant, and I’m glad to see it here. It’s one of those delights where they lay absurdity on absurdity but somehow manage to play it with a straight face until you just hit a moment when the entire towering edifice of absurdity suddenly strikes you and you just die laughing. Without ever losing the…

My favorite way to describe Other Bothers to friends I’m trying to talk into listening to it is that it’s about three random fantasy future people- a PR flunkie, a file clerk, and a cafeteria lady - get sucked back in time and told it’s up to them to save the world, except contrary to usual genre convention, they…

I mean, she did try to make a move on simulated-Simone. And Simone seemed cool with it. So maybe there’s a solution there. 

Wolf 359 is/was fantastic. Arden, which is co-created by Todd Vanderwerff, just started this year and just had their season finale and it was pretty great. 

I so agree. 

Not meaning to point the finger particularly at the avclub, it’s just something that this article reminded me of, which is how frequently the fiction side of podcasting is forgotten or treated like some weird new trend just now coming on the scene, when there have just been a metric ton of audio dramas just killing it…

it’s because they were using Millenial to mean “young whippersnappers” for too long, so they keep moving the start date up. But originally it was, people who came of age around the year 2000, so yeah, pretty much all 80s babies.

I don’t think so, but I don’t want to be disabused of the notion. She kept a vacation house in the town I lived in during the great recession, and she’d eat at the restaurant I worked at occasionally. I never was there those nights, but my coworkers said she was a good tipper and all around decent and not stuck up or…

seriously. Though I liked the bits between Kristin Bell and Tituss Burgess. Though maybe that was just that it was the few seconds that actually approached humor rather than just being kind of painful. I’m not sure how you put so much talent on one stage and manage to make it feel as stilted and awkward as a skit put…

I always really liked “Rewrite” but after listening to the album a few times, it’s funny how much the whole experience of it grew on me. 

Yes, that does seem a bit self-own ish. “I don’t care about your opinion! I’m just going to spend a bunch of time arguing about how your opinion is bad.” Kinja people are the WORST. 

I was in high school when I saw this movie, so take this with a grain of salt: but I liked it in the same way as Sleepy Hollow. 

Seriously. It kills me that there's such amazing material that that could have pulled from, and instead we get.... This.