That can’t be! THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!

“Obi-Wan never told you what happened to the 2020 box office.”

I don’t know anyone who hated Fallon for breaking. I do know a shitload of people who hated him for constantly and pretty obviously faking it because he figured out that the audience found it endearing when someone lost it. Nothing about it looked natural when he did it. He even sometimes would look directly into the…

Speaking of breaking this is one of my all time favorites.

Thrice is probably my favorite band that’s still putting out relevant music. Dustin and I are the same age, so I feel like the band’s sound has matured with my tastes. Though I still enjoy the older, screamy stuff too. They’re the band I’ve seen the most times live as well. I haven’t seen them do a solo show since…

Thrice would never be called Christian Rock, but Dustin Kensrue (the lead singer) does his own solo Christian stuff, so inevitably some of that does find its way back into Thrice.

I don’t listen to Relient K anymore, but I was always fond of their stuff in grade school.

And every so often I don’t mind Chris Tomlin. 

The obligatory back-story story about this interview is that I actually did about half of it a few years ago, and I was finally able to get enough to turn it into a piece worth running (because, you know, my standards are unreasonably high) when I got her on the phone a few weeks ago, but the interview was supposed to…

The writer of fiction is required to write. The reader is required to decide if the writer has connected with them.

Since I know a lot of readers enjoy the behind-the-scenes moments, here’s how this interview went down:

I’m gonna repost what I wrote verbatim under a Splinter article on the subject after someone pointed out the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia, and everyone rushed to tell them that they’re probably speaking from experience and looking for ways to defend themselves or something. A nice crowd. Since…

Contracts don’t tend to have “audience backlash” clauses.

Raise your hand if you’re in the film or theater community and you DON’T know someone who has a Kevin Spacey story.

So that’s where Reince Preibus and Saxby Chambliss got their names.

Amazingly improved when read by internet hero ProZD in ballpark announcer voice:

This is kind of a wacky debate to be having, because when I come across any invocation of the phrase, “the greatest ever,” I brush it off as fannish hyperbole–sometimes with a touch of irony–and go on with my reading without second thought. In other words, I don’t think Steve Guttenberg is making any lofty critical…

“When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going” is the greatest music video of the entire 80s. I don’t care what anyone says. If anyone asks you what the 80s was like, you just pull up this video.

There’s a pretty famous bible named after him, what’d you expect?

Could God bowl a split so difficult even he couldn’t manage to score a spare?

Has Aronofsky become our greatest biblical filmmaker? Noah is a fascinating blend of biblical and gnostic sources, Pi is about where jewish mysticism and science, this wraps the bible up into a wild allegory, and The Fountain is, if it’s anything, an Adam and Eve story about the ramifications of The Fall and our…

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