I’m glad someone else opened up considering live performances. The live version of “Corduroy” from Let’s Play Two is probably my favorite Pearl Jam song.

I’ve figured out that contemporary pop, in general, just isn’t for me. Wet Leg’s self-titled debut from a couple years ago is the best album I’ve heard in awhile. Looking forward to their sophomore effort.

Along with the other obvious omissions others have mentioned, I’d add the creepy murderous moppets from David Cronenberg’s The Brood. Scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

It’s funny, too, how quickly the two finish. There’s only about a minute and twenty seconds between the time when Michael is watching them through the downstairs window and they leave the sofa where they were making out and head upstairs (ostensibly to fuck) and when the boyfriend comes back downstairs and leaves.

I was poking fun at how many alter egos Pym has had in the comics, something that Marvel nerds like me have joked about for years. I was not being at all serious that Feige would make such an offer, let alone that Douglas would accept it.

Feige should promise him the sweet release of death, but only on the condition that he agrees to play every alter ego Pym’s ever had. Ant-man, Giant-Man, Yellowjacket, Goliath, Pymtron... Feige could lock him down for another decade.

I loved his follow-up with Taylor Tomlinson (one off my favorite stand-ups):

Ferguson would be a dream guest for the podcast. He did the late night show a few times.

I remember him once saying in an interview that if he didn’t go into comedy, he probably would have taught English (he has a BA from Harvard in History and Literature). Whether teaching is itself a “real world talent” is debatable, I suppose, but as an English prof., myself, I think he would’ve been great at it. His…

“Remembrance of Things Past” is a phrase that the original translators borrowed from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30. “In Search of Lost Time” is the literal translation and it’s what was used for the more recent edition from the 1990s. Incidentally, A.O. Scott recently wrote a NYT piece about literary works borrowing their…

But it has nobody who says steamed hams.

This is from the Hollywood Reporter piece:

Here’s the thing: have you ever said you would have loved to attend a friend of a friend of a friend’s birthday party an hour from you after you’d already RSVPd no? That’s essentially what Downey is doing here.

Love Julia Garner. Love Silver Surfer. Looking forward to this.

While the writers could be insufferable, they did occasionally give me leads on new music that I wouldn’t have known about (or at least known about as quickly) otherwise. Kind of like AV Club before the Kinjacalypse.

Are they gonna make AVC subscription-based like they did with Jezebel and Splinter? Because 1) If Teti or O’Neal or whoever had asked for readers to do that back during the site’s glory days to avoid being bought out by Univision in the first place, I would have gladly said yes, but not for this husk and disemboweled v…

It’s been a week and there’s been nary a mention of it. Contrast that with the “Let’s talk about the AV Club moving to Kinja” walkthrough that O’Neal and Browning put together for the last sale:

Benioff is a fraud but not Weiss? I don’t know much about them outside of GoT. I’m genuinely curious why one and not both? (I was literally laughing out loud at how bad season 8 was as I watched so I’m looking for a little resh schadenfreude at their expense).

Over in the latest review for Curb there’s this: