That’s decent for revenge, but not that good for a prank. 

It’s not perfect, but it was possible to follow discussion threads without a third party extension. It was possible to block trolls without a third party extension. There were no grays. It was possible to format text on mobile. And I never got locked out of my account for three weeks on mobile because the login page…

Yeah, the site can pivot to video, but I won’t. Besides, given the state of things, there’s a pretty good argument to be made that the site shouldn’t either. 

So, uh... what happened? I’ve read this twice and there’s just a lot of wink-wink, nudge-nudge that... something... happened.

I hated the first episode of AHS so much that I wasn’t even remotely curious to see where it went and have never really thought about it since, but I’m going to have to read those reviews now. 

I read the site for years before I somehow stumbled into the comments section (in general keeping with my “don’t read the comments” policy). The “golden age” of anything is always when you discover it—in my case, it was O’Neal Newswires and Rabin Flops and VanDerWerff TV reviews/digressions—but eventually I realized…

Fucking private equity bullshit. 

It’s not as bad as people make it out to be, but it is a shadow of its former glory (in terms of content, quality, and community).

Beavers, my solicitor, ever with a keen eye for un-scrupulous money-making ventures, says, much to my astonishment, that great shoals of half-wits and degenerates stay up ‘round the clock discussing nickel-odeon pictures and iconoscopic serials and other third-rate enter-tainments. Not only do they choose to fritter…

He’s married to Isla Fisher.

I would label Gervais troublesome only in the sense that, despite being a gifted comedic writer and performer, he is lousy at stand-up. 

It’s like that stupid “albatross soup” riddle that’s been around forever and made me hate riddles.

If the answer isn’t “yelling at Jill Stein on the internet,” you’ve let us all down.

It’s a spinoff parody of “viral” content. For a brief time, The Onion was dabbling in surreal stuff (like this https://entertainment.theonion.com/the-9-most-scandalous-rihanna-photos-1819594443) that sent up crappy Buzzfeed listicles, but it didn’t quite fit with The Onion brand, which is a parody of actual…

I totally agree with you about not “attacking the disease,” but I’m not sure I agree that “pickling” is necessarily an attack as much as a shorthand for its obvious effects. I’ve talked about pickling myself when describing my years in the bottle, but then again, gallows humor is just how I process difficult emotions.

Farnum is definitely Cliff Clavin in this show.

Think The Sopranos—schlubby, blue collar protagonist, beautiful wife, two kids—but a three camera sitcom this time, with more catchphrases and lazy innuendo.

You gotta get up in dat ass, Spidey. Pull they ass open, step inside they asshole, shut the door behind you, and spray paint, “Spidey was here.”

MELISANDRE