This was the late 90s… yeah. I think "ten years ago we made Master of Puppets" would have been the only thing Metallica could really lord over Hanson during the Load/Reload era.

Holy shit, they did, didn't they? I had completely forgotten the part where my cousin and I had to ration time in X-Files chatrooms.

You could probably point to a specific movie in the late-70s or early-80s that had a particularly effective sliding scene, which subsequent movies copied. And it probably is true that there was more sliding in 80s movies than, say, 60s movies because of evolving technology in terms of set design and mobility of…

That's part of the fascination for me - the idea that you can possess "truth" when your worldview is predicated on the idea that everything is fundamentally deceptive. I get that there are people who throw in with this bullshit because they blame social progress for their failings, but there are people who actually…

I was traveling a lot this weekend, which means an inordinate amount of CNN exposure, and during a (remarkably level-headed) panel discussion one of their correspondents pointed out (separate from the current set of tweets) that you can't call something a lie and call it a leak. Doing both is basically claiming that…

There's a segment of society that wants to see Trump get booted out for being a regressive moron who ran on a hateful platform and somehow got elected despite a conspicuous lack of experience or any reason to think he'd be a successful head of state. If his competence and character were the only issues at stake, it…

I doubt they actually do. The President travels on a private military aircraft escorted by government bodyguards - I don't think there's any authority that could place him under house arrest or restrict his travel. This is a special investigation ordered by the legislature, so the relationship between the…

It fascinates me when people take what amounts to a spiritual view of social occurrences. When you start from the premise that truth is unknowable, you can never say that you've been proven wrong. It's this curious mixture of cynicism and childlike naivete, and what's really strange is that it doesn't seem capable…

For real? I haven't seen Jason Goes to Hell, but I would say that the only Friday the 13th movies that are actually worth watching are Part IV and Jason X because they are fucking insane. The rest of them are cheap and dull.

I've been really tempted to try one of these cooperative survival horror games (Dead by Daylight goes on sale every other month it seems like), but I have serious reservations. The only online cooperative game I've ever enjoyed is Left 4 Dead because the gameplay is simple enough to make voice chat irrelevant, and…

Reclassifying adult males as a "combatants" to decrease the number of civilians killed in those strikes was morally inexcusable, which makes it even more infuriating that the Republicans painted Obama as a weak-willed pacifist in their campaign rhetoric.

Nuance can be a difficult thing. Pacifism and liberalism get tangled up together in 21st century discourse, even though they aren't necessarily related. It's one of the many ways that bipartisan politics lump together unrelated ideologies (for example, evangelical Christianity and unregulated capitalism). Pacifism…

It feels long, which is kind of how Kubrick movies work, but it covers a lot of ground and juggles some pretty interesting shifts in tone. It might be a situation where someone should point out that at least one of those esteemed "NASA lens shooting by candle-light" shots contains a lot of topless women. Or that a…

Even by the low rhetorical standards of ReportedA7XFan, this is just a pile of letters.

I knew a woman who couldn't believe (not in the conspiracy sense, just in the "this doesn't fit with my concept of the world" sense) that so many of the surviving children managed to stay silent and hide in their classrooms while the gunman was shooting.

It's an insult to incestuous necrophiliac meth-heads to suggest that they're into Alex Jones.

Several decades ago, a man died of leukemia, and while awaiting burial his penis - still engorged with leukemic cells - spontaneously ejaculated a sickly mixture of leukemia and dead-guy sperm into the corpse of a woman who had just shit herself to death. She had been ovulating right around the time she shit herself…

We all have assholes, and our lives would be worse without them. He's more like a person made entirely out of leukemia.

The trick would be to cover yourself in layer after layer of third-class passengers. They're all gonna die anyway.

"Ice can't break steel hulls!"