The fame is like a drug. But the thing that’s even more like a drug are the drugs.

“YOU DON’T WANT NO PART OF THIS!”

When the Go-Go’s first album came out the people who were into College Rock (which is what they used to call Indie Music) vehemently dismissed the band as New Wave posers. You wouldn’t believe how militant people were about music back then. They were worse than the worst record store asshole you ever met. It was not…

God-DAMMIT Barry!

That’s 2016

Hey, everybody! It’s that guy!

Because he tells them what they want to hear, and behaves in ways they want to behave without being told it’s “sinful”.

Not everyone can handle this situation with the finesse of Gorillaz.

Surprised he hasn’t been offered a job by the Trump administration.  He would check so many boxes for them.

That’s just good science.

This seems as good an opportunity as any to mention the time Mike Tyson told my dad that to solve the global climate crisis, we needed to “find out what the Earth is made of and make more of it.”

I have weirdly mixed feelings about this. It reads a lot like an academic turf war of sorts. Like, too bad Lawrence Wright picked a scholar to interview who’s so old and out of touch, or who isn’t on the same page as this other scholar. So much of academia involves really smart people picking the living daylights out…

As an optimist I have to point out that intermittent Larson is better than no Larson.

Thanks for not making this a slideshow. 

I would assume that the “possession of tools” charge is about them having those tools with them in a public space with the proven intent to commit vandalism or graffiti.

Left to right: Norma Shearer, Joan Fontaine, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, and Mary Boland.

Shut up about the sun! SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!!

She wasn’t terrified...she was entitled.  

And this is why we want gun control in this country. Because there is no way that mentally unstable people should own guns. 

If she hadn’t been carrying a gun, she wouldn’t have reached for a gun to solve a dispute. Guns don’t make anything better, they make people’s bad moments worse.