I’ve always found Larson’s explanation as to why he didn’t want them posted without his consent to be heartfelt and reasonable. It’s probably one of my favorite things ever published online:

I mean, there *could* be a third possibility, namely that he’s a regular who created a burner just for this because he’s too chickenshit to use his regular account.

This song wrecked me the first time I heard it years ago; it’s wrecking me all over again now.

Don’t forget about the time that she went to a donut shop, picked up a donut that she hadn’t paid for and licked it, then put it back like that was normal fucking behavior, all while saying “I hate Americans” and somehow that didn’t even derail her career the slightest fucking bit.

I had a clip lined up from the episode of 30 Rock (“Audition Day”) when Jack gets bedbugs and how people immediately start treating him like dirt. One other GE exec even goes so far as to say that it’s because Jack lives in a not-quite-affluent-enough part of Manhattan. When I tried to embed the clip the stupid thing…

My guess: The literal bedbugs found at NYT over the weekend have been tracked to Stephens, specifically, and he’s taking all of this a bit too personally. 

Looks fun. Will watch. Still holding out hope that the Grandmaster is gonna show up again, too. 

Fun fact... wait for it... I used to be a hand model and that’s my hand in Zoolander

I was listening to Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington wax on about how revolutionary they were for The Ricky Gervais Show podcast back in 2005; they reveled in it being the most downloaded podcast, outpacing everyone’s expectations, etc. Podcasting isn’t new. People just keep discovering it for the…

It looks like Never Not Funny started in 2006. Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, and Karl Pilkington beat Pardo by a year, then, with The Ricky Gervais Show, which—whatever you think of Gervais—definitely raised the profile of podcasts almost immediately (downloaded over 300 million times, held the Guinness World…

And all of that means fuck all to the long list of transgressions for which he’s already been responsible. And lol at you telling me to “Go look it up and read some on the comments in the iO9 article on this subject.”

Ike Perlmutter is awful outside of his support of the Orange Skull. He’s been like a HYDRA agent at Marvel, fucking up everything that he can get his tentacles on. So him supporting Trump and/or him possibly being the one to fuck up getting someone of Spiegelman’s stature to write the intro comes as no surprise.

If a stranger left a TV on my front porch in the middle of the night, I’d probably be at least a little concerned. It could be stolen property, booby-trapped, etc. The most likely explanation is that it’s a prank, of course, but who knows these days.

He did the same thing last year, though he left only 20 TVs (or they did, actually—he has a helper in a white jump suit, also with a TV on his head):

“Fuck you, Rick Berman! You ruined this, too?”

I’ve been playing Marvel Future Fight since March of last year. The game’s latest update this past week added Silver Surfer, Namor, and Wave (billed as the first Filipina super-hero), and today and on Saturdays going forward Galactus shows up as an NPC in the game in a mode called Giant Boss Raid. He sticks around for…

Yeah that all tracks. It’s horrible, infuriating, and completely predictable, unfortunately. What I don’t get is why Trump et al. responded that way to this particular film, though. Villains coded as “the elite” hunting people that they call “deplorables” only for the latter to heroically turn the tables on them…

Good joke as always, but seriously how is “dancing to Prince on New Year’s Eve” not the go-to answer? “Auld Lang Syne” didn’t stand a chance.

I was thinking about that, because I imagine many of us still associate Brie with Annie first and foremost (and we try not to sexualize Annie, even if Community sexualized Annie every chance it got and that was the joke). Has Ruth ever said how old she is? Because Brie is 36 and Maron is 55, and I don’t know... I…

...a classic image of comic book Thanos—whose motivations for wiping out half the universe are a lot, well, hornier than his film counterpart’s...