Yes. It was Viserys’ Valyria LEGO set.

Can I just say the intro is waaaaay better now? I get the whole bloodlines angle last season but it was fairly bland. This? They went with a semi Baylax Tapestry kinda look and I’m a real sucker for that.

My stance is that I may as well believe in Will Smith. If I’m wrong, nothing happens, and if I’m right, I’ll enjoy the full glory of the Willennium.

My favorite Onion headline from around the time Supersize Me was in theaters:

I saw the twitter dunking and it was mostly being made by people who weren’t even alive in ‘04 when Super Size Me came out. Even at it’s release ‘Oh wow guy eats nothing but Mcdonald’s and gets fat stop the presses’ was a wide criticism of the films concept. But at the time it was pretty hard to know what was being…

The parody movie boom had to be some sort of racket. It produced maybe three watchable movies, a couple dozen increasingly derivative movies, and then somehow continued on for a few more dozen, I believe, moving through “fake SNL type parodies of parodies” before somehow bursting through the bottom of the barrel into…

Paramount Pictures announced it will reboot the beloved horror spoof franchise Scary Movie

i was just today thinking about how much i miss spoof comedy. obviously it’s mostly been awful, but i just miss it as a genre more than anything. angie tribeca was really good and that was basically the last thing i saw deploy it.

White folks were mad mad. Like they’d never seen a rich person with a top-notch legal team outwit the LAPD. They were really counting on racism to carry the day.

It’s so nice how OJ’s acquittal so many years ago pointed out the inequalities of our deeply flawed justice system and how having a vigorous and therefore very expensive legal team is by far the single biggest predictor of a win in court.

It is truly remarkable how some folks just sit and wait all day, thinking “How can I be a weird asshole about the news today?”

I was in high school social studies class when the principal came on the PA to interrupt everyone’s classes to announce the verdict. It’s difficult to describe how fucking obsessed the nation was with this trial. The perfect storm of the birth of the 24 hour news cycle at a time when we could still have some kind of…

Yup. In the Hollywood Reporter piece about this movie today, one of those anonymously-quoted studio bean counter types that was at this Megalopolis screening said one of their main reasons for not taking on the movie is because “it was hard to tell who was the good guy and who was the bad guy.” Seriously. The people…

Kind of bummed Richard Kind didn't show up. Other than in a brief clip.

That’s cool. But I’d be more excited if it were more Detroiters

The fact of the matter is, however much they constrained the story, Gene’s rules did create a sort of believable and culturally distinct universe from ours which helped with making the series a compelling view into the future. The current iteration where people yell, cuss, fail to display the slightest amount of…

If there is a God, then He created Barbieland out of anger. The dream houses portend nightmares and agony. In Weird Barbie’s eyes I see only a blank stare that speaks of a half-bored interest in fashion.

I think it would be a fun exercise, if it were possible, to have the people making over-the-top criticisms of this season re-watch season 1 from the same lens. It feels to me that a lot of the critiques of S4 would apply to S1, but they were viewed from a different POV.

Hardly slumming it - the Beatles had a record deal and were widely acknowledged to be the best band in Liverpool at the time. He didn’t leave Rory Storm and the Hurricanes to slum it.

with a specific release strategy that Sony Pictures Entertainment promises to be “innovative and groundbreaking”