I’m surprised that nobody has brought up the seminal crustpunk / grindcore band Doom, which predates the first Doom game by 5 years. They are almost certainly the relevant prior art in this space.*

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“To keep Texas the best state in the United States of America...”

I am shocked (shocked!) that Jezebel is taking Tituss Burgess’s word on anything race-related since he offensively appropriated traditional Japanese dress and wore geisha makeup on a show co-created by Known Problematic TV Writer Tina Fey!!!!1!1!

Agreed, and this is why I enjoyed the Ant-Man movies a lot.

Based on that top photo, I’m going to say that Liz Phair is also very good at being Busy Philipps.

Bernie definitely takes the hotel room soap home with him. Just the one he used, though. They’re just going to throw it out when he leaves, and besides he has all these empty ziploc bags anyway.

So this is truly baring my soul here, but I keep an ice pack in the freezer just for when I have trouble sleeping. Wedge it between your chest and a pillow and *bam* accelerated unconsciousness by mild core hypothermia.

I am happy to keep this sub rosa discussion going in the comments of an otherwise unrelated article, because I know next to nothing about the PR side of extreme music. :) That said, I love metal in part because while there’s often an explicit denial of mainstream appeal in the music itself, it’s an extraordinarily…

Well, let’s not forget when Lordi won Eurovision in 2006 because in my book a win by a GWAR-lite band is still close enough.

I mean, you pretty much transcribed my own inner monologue, so yeah. People are fucking tacky and they do love some basic shit.

I love a well-justified and stiletto-sharp takedown and I loathe Seward Johnson ever since I saw his Lincoln statue, and I had no idea he was a J&J heir, so: thank you, thank you, thank you.

In some cases, they absolutely do not expect to hire someone at that wage. However, because they posted the job at that wage and didn’t get any takers, that allows them to say “there are no American workers who are available to fill this specialized role, so therefore we must be allowed to hire a foreign worker on an…

I think you’re cool, mom.

Poetry!

I’m just going to leave this here for you then, because you’re obviously a person of rare taste and refinement.

A malicious, cruel, and despicable act, and also maybe a 3 or 4, max, on the 1-10 scale of “how evil was this thing Lee Atwater did?”

In a more direct intersection of music, place, and product, the Misawa Home Corporation in the mid-80s commissioned a series of ambient soundscapes. When you purchased one of their prefab homes, you also got one of the recordings, and it was meant to be played inside the house to complement its design. I honestly love…

I just realized that the same directors went on to do the “Danger 5" series, which is also very funny and leans hard into the UFO / Thunderbirds vibe.

It is from an Australian YouTube film called “Italian Spiderman,” a parody of 1960s-1970s Italian action-adventure movies. It’s pretty funny. Go look it up and enjoy while I rethink my life, because somehow that information was like, right there in my brain even though I can’t find my glasses or remember my locker…