I sort of agree, actually. I think there are three levels: matched/pleasing, mismatched/pleasing, and mismatched/janky-and-fucked-up. This is the third, and that’s why I like it. It’s terrible and therefore great.

Come over to the dark side.

I agree with what everyone is saying about it being mismatched and fucked up, and for that reason I think it is excellent. But then again, I also think Fergie’s national anthem was the best for exactly these reasons. Do with that what you will.

These are all excellent, and as a librarian I must also always big up the library, but as a believer in a complex, with-caveats version of “information wants to be free,” I must also point to the #ICanHazPDF protocol.

How clever.

I would love to read this as the satirical critique of capitalist society it wants to be, but I actually think we may be one step away from student debt Battle Royale here. Or, you know, Monday Night Rehabilitation.

I continue to be confused at how many second chances he seems to get.

I think that’s a fair assessment—he’s a brand of paleo-conservative that we don’t seem to run into very often in North America. But then that’s coupled with him being really emo and talking about things like psychedelics. I mean, ultimately he’s manifesting that same anxiety that the tiki-torch nazis were chanting…

I’m a pinko commie feminist, and yet I admittedly find Dreher really fascinating (in addition to being utterly baffling and maddening). He semi-regularly goes off the deep end and says bizarre/horrifying stuff as in the above, yet periodically in the midst of questionable sourcing and freakout argumentation he’s open…

Isaiah Mustafa is the guy from the “I’m on a horse” Old Spice commercial.

Would Pope Zero be the Jesus story? What about Diet Pope--is that post-Vatican II? Tell me more.

I think the difference is that instead of recommending the content of a book in response to a question, he’s, as you say, proactively telling people to buy it.

She went back to work during the separation plot line.

Am I wrong when I say that it appears that promotion of Pirro’s book is a clear-cut instance of misusing public office to promote products, a la Conway and Ivanka? It’s a nice little indicator of where we are now--we have so much bigger fish to fry right now that this barely even registers.

Tangential, but this is making me think once again what the Trump Presidential Library might look like. I’m picturing kind of a “gold-plated Port Authority bus terminal” kind of vibe.

Despite the apparent glorification of Wyoming and white middle America that Kanye is engaging in here, it feels like this is one more instance of cultural tourism that’s just using a kitsch version of poor middle American aesthetics to troll the “coastal elites,” which is just a huge fuck-you to poor people (of color…

Just a quick correction—Bjork was harassed during the filming of Dancer in the Dark. Though most of his films are indeed interchangeable on “brutalizing women” front.

Award-worthy, and an image I now can’t scrub from my brain.

Chainsaw Teens: horrible idea, but great band name.

Now you’re getting at the real question.