Maybe he started at SMSU and transferred to Mizzou. I have no idea. Mizzou definitely claims him as an alum (along with Tennessee Williams, Jon Hamm, Sam Walton, Lindsey Vonn, Tom Berenger, Sheryl Crow, etc.). Just do a web search for Brad Pitt+Mizzou and you’ll find all sorts of reputable sites that seem to agree…

Pitt is from Springfield but went to Mizzou in Columbia.

Brad Pitt preceded me in attending Mizzou, and one of the first things that I heard from the keepers of campus lore when I arrived is that he was just one class shy of graduating with a journalism degree when he left for Hollywood. At first he did stuff like this commercial and he wore a full chicken suit, apparently,…

He has bupkis. It’s all a stupid publicity stunt/grift, just like Trump’s presidential run.

I release you from the greys. Weren’t you a regular member of the commentariate in the Disqus days?

We need to maximize space for Kinja deals. These second-hand write-ups about cultural ephemera from days and weeks ago aren’t gonna pay for themselves.

Why thank you! The English grad student in me thought it was clever.

Yes, because there are so many of us who say “it’s all Jimmy fucking Fallon’s fault.” That’s not hyperbole at all.

Exactly. The small modicum of regret that he expresses (he says that he’d “do it differently”) is offset by his shitty comments about his critics—they “don’t know what [they’re] talking about” and they should “Get over it.” It sounds a whole lot like imperfect contrition.

Actually from that full quote, it doesn’t seem like he regrets anything other than the fact that his ratings are down and that he’s been called out for enabling the normalization of a monster. Any way, any time Fallon’s name comes up, my mind turns to the comforting words of Tracy Morgan. From a Slate piece on…

You’re right. Everyone but you and your ilk have been gaslighted by libtards into thinking that separating children from their families is new policy—including even Senate Republicans, since they’re also calling for an end to it. We’re all just outraged because it’s Trump. Hey, speaking of Trump and Sessions and…

OP literally says “this is the law” in his second sentence. It’s a lie and a deflection that fuckwits like you have been trying to use to what-about your way out of this, so I’m not missing the point by calling it out as a lie. It is a lie. So is your claim that this—separating children from their families—isn’t new.…

Did you know me during the Obama administration? No? Then you have no idea what I was outraged over and not outraged over. So fuck off with your what-about-ism bullshit. Trying to blame Obama for this hasn’t worked for Trump this time—the media for once are keeping on point—and it’s not going to work for us here.

It has not been the law to separate children from their families. It is still not the law:

The one time James Franco actually played James Franco—a la Goldblum playing Goldblum—was on 30 Rock and it was glorious.

I would have loved for FF to be introduced into the MCU via Avengers 4. I wanted them to do it in such a way that they could forego the usual origin story for now and also account for where FF has been while the rest of the MCU has been unfolding. Like Stark returns to Earth, surveys the landscape and says that they…

I liked the game a lot, in general. The narrative was fun, and the open world gameplay reminded me of the Ultima ports and early Final Fantasy games (minus the RPG) for the NES and SuperNES, which were my favorite games as a kid. It’s also cool that there are no loot boxes or DLC to buy. I was kind of amazed at the…

There is also already a free (as in completely free) Stranger Things phone app game that mimics the graphics and gameplay of an original NES game. It’s pretty great. Here’s a link for the Android version:

Because both AV Club articles/reviews and their corresponding comments sections have devolved completely into virtue signalling for half of the people who work/comment here. There used to be a basic understanding that the depiction of a heinous act was itself not an endorsement of that act; now we’re holding…

That was one of the most bizarre hypotheticals I’ve ever come across, and one in service of such a mundane point that didn’t really need an illustrative example in the first place.