I don't think anyone without cancer is implying they're worse off than someone dying of cancer because she's pretty and popular. But would you say that someone who's dying of cancer and doesn't have love and support is better off than someone who's dying of cancer but does have love and support?

Thank you for your clear-sightedness. The privilege-denial that comes out in the comments when Jez touches on beauty privilege and thin privilege never ceases to amaze me.

Aren't there, like, lots of excellent and marketable, but considerably cheaper, actors around Hollywood who could play Blomkvist really well?

It was so. bad. I loved it.

I LOVED that in his audio book of 'How To Be Black' he actually included the actual live audio from the writer's panel he talked about where people read aloud the most obnoxious and pretentious thing they wrote as a kid.

I don't think the full details of this ever really came to light - one day I will get my sister drunk and nostalgic and really grill her about it. But I THINK it was one of those things where a few teenagers work together to create a fake identity and troll someone on the internet (the photo they used of the…

.....ha, yeah, that pretty much nails it. Some guys were totally cool and we all just talked about Quake, but some were just douches and either resented you being on the board and expected you to justify your being there (because a girl would only come to a message board about a computer game for attention obviously,…

I love this even more than I loved the MTV version of 'Wuthering Heights' where Cate lived in a lighthouse and married a frat boy, and Heath had a smash hit angsty song about his obsessive love for her, and it ended with Cate dying in childbirth and Heath taking the baby away.

Why yes, yes he was. Ah fuck it, here's the scene where Carmen and Hill have fight about their relationship, in rap.

It was just that juvenile sexist "get outta our treehouse" nonsense.

Height and weight are two of the things it makes zero sense to me to lie about. And then people get all pissy and defensive and "I lied because people are so shallow and stupid", and it's like, I don't care about that but now you've got me wondering, if you're going to lie about something so basic as how tall you are,…

I pretended to be a guy on a message board about the computer game Quake because the girls who posted got talked down to and harassed, so I deleted that profile and created a new one where I was a guy.

I know they had a trio of jocular laid-back dads to contrast with Marline's neurotic helicoptering. But gah, there was a single mom character dropping her kids off at school, and there were no female turtles with dialogue in what was meant to show an idealised super-positive and exemplary family community.

I totally didn't buy the CD. Absolutely not. No way. *awkward silence*

Tim Minchin agrees.

I really thought hard before posting this. Oh god, there's bits of it on YouTube. Anybody reading this, don't watch Carmen: A Hip Hopera on YouTube. Life is too short.

Speaking of reboots of old musicals (although this wasn't a reboot of a musical technically), does anyone else remember, uh, 'Carmen: A Hip-Hopera' starring Beyonce?

Sounds like she wanted to break it off but didn't want to look like she was doing it without an "excuse", so she called you weird and creepy so she could tell herself it was justified.

Well in its defence (!?) it wasn't really a remake of the movie, more a new adaptation of the musical. The movie was TOTALLY different. Yes, I am very familiar with the differences between the Annie musical and the movie. I've wrangled the children's ensemble in many community theater productions of 'Annie'. It was a…

(How do you edit comments in "Kinja"?) The "I'm a dumb guy" thing is literally what he said on the commentary track, as in (paraphrasing) "I just wrote Dory as male because yeah I know, I'm a dumb guy".