The movie is very well made, and all the performances are good, but the new Pennywise isn’t very scary at all — Tim Curry’s got him beat in scare-factor by a mile and a half. It’s worth checking out, though.

All of this is the good shit, but this in particular...

I’m all in on this. I was just watching “Aftershocks” (Jill Hennessey’s finale as Kincaid) the other night, and it was so damn good. And I love me some Abby Carmichael, and I’d say that Briscoe/Curtis & McCoy/Carmichael was probably my favorite configuration.

You’d think, particularly given the size of some states. California and Rhode Island certainly aren’t equivalent.

One of my favorite awards show moments was an Oscars telecast during which the Academy ran one of their standard “Look, what we do is *important*! The films we make tackle *issues*!” montages. The lights came up, and host Jon Stewart cracked, “And none of those things was ever a problem again” and you could just feel…

It continues to be remarkable to me that the Left — ostensibly the political arena where the “cool” celebrities hang out, arbiters of what’s hip, so often held up as decadent libertines out to corrupt America’s values — continues to desperately court the approval of the squares on the right.

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“Could it be possible, after the NFL spent decades using Los Angeles as a threat to strong-arm cities into building stadiums to keep their teams, that Los Angeles didn’t actually want its own team, let alone two?”

Bingo. People at SXSW loved it because they’re high on their own fumes. Doesn’t mean it’s bad, but maybe wait to see what people outside the bubble say.

I love that series of tweets started with “We’re already building the wall!” and ended with “The wall will come later.” My god, it’s beautiful to watch.

Yeah, it’s ridiculous: “Years beyond relevance and out of touch due to material comfort, formerly revolutionary artists attempt to speak to the issues facing the current day and fail spectacularly” is a trope that long preceded Trump.

God, there’s a little strip down the street from my home that seemed safe for the longest time because it’s right next door to the big scary blue Scientology building (I was convinced that was what was keeping East Hollywood relatively untouched with Los Feliz and Silverlake so close). But apparently some Brooklyn…

lol seriously: “take a look at these articles from magazines staffed entirely by gentrifiers that say it’s okay!”

“Our basketball hoop was a ribcage... a RIBCAGE”

*strokes chin*

Ah, perhaps, but at least you have feelings on the matter.

Yeah, no one in LA cares about the Rams (and lol at the Chargers ever catching on). Raiders was the move, but shadow-commish Jerry Jones liked Kroenke’s stadium/entertainment complex concept better, so instead of LA getting a team it might give half a shit about, it gets two teams it will fully ignore.

The 90+ win Dodgers (despite their recent swoon) are running away with the NL West and are not a Wild Card team.

what in the hell

I mostly have your back. Rated R and Songs for the Deaf I like. But part of me thinks having Dave Grohl behind the kit for the latter rubbed off some of his “mid-tempo dad rock” cooties on them.