I’m obsessively gobbling it all up, good, bad, and indifferent, so it’s not an issue for me, but yeah, I can definitely see that concern. I’m interested to see how much the shows that have bowed so far will play into the interconnected movies. My hope is that (with the exception of Loki) the shows are ending on enough…

The surreality of Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig writing and directing a Barbie movie is almost too much to handle. It’s an inspired choice, but for the 90s cinéaste that still dwells somewhere in my brain, it’s dizzying.

Agreed, though it was nice to see Maria Thayer back on TV. 

I’ll give it a shot. There’s only been two Spoon records that I’ve disliked outright (Hot Thoughts and Transference) but I still prefer their 20th Century output to anything they’ve put out since they started working with Merge. Fingers crossed their return to Matador portends a return to form . . .

Counter-counterpoint: BoBF was always intended to be Mandalorian Season 3. Season 2 ended with the post-credit stinger announcing Book of Boba Fett. Then, it was announced that Season 3 of the Mandalorian would debut Christmas 2021, and then BoBF debuted at Christmas 2021.

Not saying at all that BoBF wasn’t much…

Probably will be. 

A lot of 20th century sci-fi just wasn’t that imaginative. Klingons were just white people with fancy eyebrows (and, occasionally, brown shoe polish on their faces.) Romulans were just Vulcans with v-shaped bangs, and Vulcans were just normal humans with pointy ears and straight bangs. Klaatu was just a white dude,…

That 70s Show took place in ‘76. “In the Street” was released in ‘72. Cheap Trick didn’t put any records out until ‘77, and “Surrender” wasn’t released until ‘78.

That 90s Show takes place in ‘95. “Summer Babe” was released in ‘92. Modest Mouse started putting out records in ‘96, and “Float On” wasn’t released until…

That was when they had their hits, sure, but Lonesome Crowded West, the only good Modest Mouse record, was 1997. But, sure, I’m open to other suggestions for bands that are similar in style to Pavement, were active more properly in the early-to-mid 90s, and are still recording 30 years later.

The opening theme song will be “Summer Babe” covered by Modest Mouse. They’ll shout “We all float on! We all float on!” at the end, and everyone will hate it.

Aufderheide is German for “of the Heidi.”

It’s strange that the actor would come across so stiff, given his exceptional voice acting career.

And if the Lady “A” Handbag Corporation were involved in any form or fashion, that would be a compelling point. But, since you brought it up, I guess I’ll just say again, whether Lady Antebellum was legally able to do what they did was never in question. 

It’s more about the cartoonish supervillainy of changing one’s…

Sorry, I haven’t been following your comments on other posts, believe it or not, so I was not aware of your longstanding issues with this particular writer.

Of course you’re right, but this has ever been about whether or not what Lady Antebellum did was legally defensible. It’s a question of whether or not what they did was shitty, and, if you really wanna get to the heart of it, the extent to which white artists coopting/stepping over/stepping on non-white artists is a…

So, an entertainment site, covering an entertainment news story that it’s been following for years, is, in reality, simply virtue signaling. Like, maybe he’s hoping he can get out of the “friend zone” with Anita White?

Again, I’ll grant you performative, but far from empty. While Cross and Odenkirk were against the removal, Fey actually requested that the episodes be pulled, because, I’m assuming, she wanted to be on the list of people who are against white people doing blackface on television. I’m guessing that if she’d added “and…

Yeah, but they’re not erased from history, they were just removed from the streaming package. The bob and david clip is streaming here:

Setting aside the legal arguments, stepping on another active artist’s name is a dick move, and fuck them.

You see, caring about other people is virtue signaling, whereas the truest virtue is absolute self-interest.