What a weird teaser for Westworld season 2.

My dad has molds of pilgrims and he pours butter in them. Every thanksgiving we get a pilgrim to behead and spread on cornbread. We like the big meal and he tells stories from both our cultures.

That was great, but the Tubes appearance doing Sushi Girl, with Fee Waybill french kissing a fish head, was even better.

I was ten years old when Tom Waits car broke down in Fernwood and Barth Gimble took advantage of having such a hotshot on his show. The entire interview is incredible but when Waits starts singing The Piano is Drinking, it hits the the heights that Martin Mull was seeking with the show with his & Willard’s reaction…

They were more like monuments. Big, ostentatious shows of wealth and power to dazzle and intimidate their neighbors (“Hey, Assyrians! Can you make a structure this big and cool-looking? No? Then suck it, losers!”).

I read that Proud Boys link and it’s just so odd. It’s like something an alien would create after watching Animal House and gay porn.

Sushi doesn’t have to have fish. The only required element is the rice-wine vinegared rice. My favorite kind (in part because it’s always vegetarian) is inarizushi, which are pockets of fried tofu (aburage) stuffed with sushi rice.

First, you complain that all our shows are for children. Then you complain that they’re for stoners. Now you complain that they’re for bitter, young sociopaths! Is nothing good enough! We write our fingers to the bone for you!

RIP. When your nickname is “Fats” and you make it to 89, you’ve done pretty well.

*scratches the word ‘disqus’ into the wall a hundred times*

The move to Kinja never had anything to do with comments, and everything to do with ad sales and IT costs. The more sites they have on the same infrastructure the cheaper it is to operate overall and the easier it is to sell ads across the entire platform. They don’t care about comments because the vast majority of…

It’s hard for me to believe that the mind which created Dogville, Antichrist, and Nymphomaniac could have a fraught and at times disturbing attitude towards women.

Because you’ve now become one of them. You reduce the quality of discourse every time you enter a conversation - any conversation - with the knee-jerk comment that this place has become “fucking garbage”.

Did you catch Carrey in a tiny, unbilled role in The Bad Batch? It’s not a very good movie but he’s wonderful in it. I hope he keeps taking weird character actor parts.

I have nothing to add except that Don’t Mess With the Zohan is a fucking weird movie that people should watch just so they can say “hey, this fucking weird movie actually exists.” I’m not saying it’s funny (it has some moments), but its tone and set-up and universe is bizarre throughout.

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan is legitimately very funny.

“Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe they are in good company.” Not sure where the quote comes from, but it seems relevant here.

And yet they differ in meaning. As the rise of pragmatics and relevance theory in linguistics has shown, there’s more to meaning than truth tables.

No, we’re implying the Trump family is, the honored Trumo family thankfully remains unscathed in all this