A few weeks ago, I removed from my shelf a copy of Emile Zola’s Germinal, which had sat there unread for twenty years after being assigned to me in grad school. I’m reading it now and loving every sentence of it. 

To honor this great woman’s memory, I’ll be eating a big bowl of corn tonight. RIP

The AV Club has become the pop culture website for people who hate all celebrities except the unfunny dyke comedian who had the Netflix special and whose name I’m forgetting, sorry. 

Seems like for a job that important you’d have an understudy or two. 

When I was growing up, gay men were the most interesting people on the planet. Now, you see the phrase “LGBTQ community” and just want to roll your eyes.

How have they not found a host yet? Is this some marketing ploy to build anticipation? The Oscar telecast is usually one of the highest-rated TV programs of the year. It brings in millions of dollars in advertising and in movie ticket sales. It is difficult to believe that the organizers have put off finding a host…

Saw it and loved it. It was overstuffed, full of ideas it couldn’t contain, the type of mess only a perfectionist could create. 

This is going to confuse and upset the shit out of some of the commenters here. LOL

PTA is one of a handful of directors whose movies I never miss seeing in theaters.  I’ve seen every one of them since Boogie Nights, and I’ve only been disappointed once (Inherent Vice). 

Great list! Nothing takes me back to childhood like old country. It’s like turnip greens in the sense that I hated it at the time but love it now.

William Hughes and recognitions are the same guy, right?

One of the few comedians I admired both as a child (Super Dave!) and as an adult (Marty Funkhouser). RIP, genius

I look like Steve Wozniak, apparently. He’s considered incredibly handsome, right?

I know that. I was referring to Roseanne’s cancellation at the urging of a humorless internet mob. I have no problem with the fact that all the comics on the list are men. 

The Junior Samples presidency. 

Disappointed that Roseanne Barr isn’t on this list. Sexism sucks.

I’ve given a shit about exactly 2 albums released this year: Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves and Sparrow by Ashley Monroe. Both are sophisticated country-pop albums that feature gorgeous vocals and clean production.

I’d watch the hell out of a Netflix McTeague, but I can’t think offhand who I’d want as the title character.  Maybe Thomas Haden Church.

I read Frank Norris’s naturalistic novel about greed, McTeague. Though written in the century before last, it feels more like Elmore Leonard than Charles Dickens, with spare prose that anticipates Hemingway’s. Every character is nasty and offensive in his or her own way, and the plot keeps you wondering which one of…

As countless people have pointed out on Twitter, Patton Oswalt would do a great job.