It is October 2019. I am reading a news story about how “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is bad. They say there is a new version by John Legend and Kelly Clarkson.

I mean she’s on a major label, what you call being an “industry plant” is just the label doing it’s only job

I wonder if anyone actually is dim enough to genuinely believe that’s what the song is about?

It ticks all the boxes, doesn’t it? Lazy, out-of-date, out-of-touch, completely lacking in nuance, yet presenting itself so confidently.

It’s a song about, as our Britt Hayes put it, “a woman being held hostage by some guy who may or may not have drugged her adult beverage.”

I love how Bowen Yang and Shane Gillis appear to be friends, but some of his fans and this writer are so heartbroken by that that they need to concoct this narrative that secretly he HATES Shane but is just pretending to be okay with him for reasons.

It’s funny because as far as i can tell, Yang and Gillis are if not friends, at least friendly. I heard some podcast or something with NYC comedians talking about this (there are so many now and they all cross-breed, i don’t remember which one) saying that the two are cool with each other

“I think it’s a lot harder to sell stories of athletic achievement when the athlete isn’t male.”

Doom!

well considering it outgrossed both of the other sweeney movies released this year put together, i think you gotta give him some credit. also when i saw it in the theatre the women behind me were practically feral for him.

one of the most ‘starring ewan macgregor’ ideas i’ve ever heard.

Obviously, the two greatest movies the author was thinking of were The Godfather Part III and Jack.

I’m seein’ double: six Elvi!

I would hazard a guess that most people just aren’t into an immersive roleplaying experience. Even fewer could actually afford $5k for a 2 day trip to, again, a windowless hotel in Florida. They should’ve just run the thing as a regular themed hotel. A lot of people would be perfectly content to pay a reasonable…

Fart

This meandering essay does not resemble a movie review.

The wrong keed died.

Boy, Bryan Fuller just keeps running into assholes! Everyone he deals with is an asshole! What terrible luck!

It’s not just bad luck. I’m all about sympathizing with artists and creators, and I’ll gladly admit that the people in charge of the later seasons played it safe and boring, but what Fuller did on the first season of American Gods was totally irresponsible.

You know that Justified quote everyone’s fond of using? “If you meet an asshole once, well, you met an asshole, but if everyone you meet is an asshole then you’re the asshole”?