i went the opposite and more cynical direction (although not as cynical as he was apparently.) the story was obviously nonsense (all of the weird details aside, it supposedly took place in a spot where it would have been on camera if it had but the camera didn’t show anything) but i figured he’d invented all of the…

i’m with you. I think it depends on when you saw it and under what circumstances- watching it as someone in my early 20's in the late 00's who had always heard it was hugely funny was.... deeply underwhelming. i think if you watched it as a 14 year in 1989 though, you’d have a very different take on it

I keep seeing mccabe being pressed on the 25th amendment thing and i don’t know why his answer everytime isn’t just to tell the interviewer to pull up any random 5 minute clip of anything donald trump has said since about 2005 and see if you can make it all the way through without being convinced he is not mentally…

oh boy, i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but while i do not know Paul i have known many “Pauls’” over the years (including a few that did the halliburton cooking thing- weirdly lucrative job it turns out) and i can more or less assure you that this is not a story that likely has a happy ending

but.... that is super dumb! if you want to stage a crime, you need to do it in a place where nobody can see anything. like, in a really actually sketchy alley in a place where there could potentially be nefarious muggers lurking.

also don’t pick a night when its like -40 out in your city and then try and claim A. there…

the very first report i saw (in the national media) reported the details he provided but also pointed out that the attack (by his account) was supposed to have taken place in an alley behind his apartment building. alleys are generally sketchy places, where the imagination leads one to expect possible…

i’m sure there is stuff out there i would be able to appreciate at some level, but i’m realistically not that big of a music ‘person’ so it probably would be wasted on me. i know that sounds kind of weird, but i mostly listen to podcasts/npr and classical music (and even then, mostly because i put it on as a…

Haunted Bigfoot was on this season of english big brother. he has an album coming out

i should also mention that removing the batteries makes the controller a lot less heavy, which kind of matters for a very small child, outside of the ‘please don’t turn on the xbox and cause the HDMI switch to swap away from the TV and make me figure out where the universal remote is’ part

i mean, if you have to add anything like what is described here to the coffee, then you don’t like coffee. you like sugar and milk and caffeine.

black, thick, cowboy style is good but the best (for my money) is turkish style. ultra fine ground, simmered by hand over an open flame in the traditional method that leaves a…

on the very simplest level, an xbox elite controller it basically just an amazing toy for a 6th month old- its got textures, its got things to push, and eating the sticks is super fun. just take the batteries out if you don’t want them turning it on now and then

i love episodes where Bob is absolutely bound and determined not to be dragged into this stuff- and then more or less succeeds. 

it depends on what part of rap you were exposed to when you were forming your preferences. if you (as i did) grew up in the era of MTV and radio dictating what was available to you and you heard it during that late 90's commercial boom when the record companies were putting any crap out the door as long as it was…

Same- and for pointing out that the stated facts of his story were wrong. He said he got attacked in an alley. 8 security cameras cover that alley and none of them recorded an attack or anyone else in the alley.

ok, but the person’s of interest are apparently 2 brothers from nigeria, which just increases the weirdness of this whole thing. i can’t see why anyone would say that this story is not completely nuts- every detail about it just raises more questions and increases the weird factor. why would 2 brothers from nigeria…

that is a fair position to take and i respect that experience

wait, seth rogan isn’t good looking? he’s not ‘height of his game brad pitt’ but he’s still pretty solid. i know its hollywood, but that seems like a weird thing to call out

I remembered kind of enjoying this movie when it came out (i feel like my parents rented it as a family movie night for some insane reason) and i caught the back half of it on one of the movie channels semi-recently.

watching it, my thought was that it was thematically a bit ahead of its time (in that it was about…

2 Paddington 2 Furious

the only way you can get away with something like this is to
A. cultivate yourself as a satire column from the get go (i.e. the borowitz report or the onion) and then run something like this after people know your deal
B. put a disclaimer that says ‘the following column is intended as satire of too much of the current…