Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for…

One of the best bits of all time, from any performer, is when he pulls a woman from the crowd and does a cold reading to show off his psychic skills, but gets increasingly specific and increasingly impressive, and the woman is stunned by how good he is at guessing, and it ends with:

I can tell you from experience as a crewmember: No. No, we would not want that.  We already work enough long ass hours and being forced to do so even more is not worth the overtime that we may not even get anyway.

Paranoid schizophrenia.

When people oppose affordable housing, they often do it for reasons other than distaste for poorer people. Instead, they raise the kinds of concerns Chappelle is voicing here: the development is not consistent with the character of the neighborhood, or it won’t be aesthetically pleasing, or it will increase traffic,…

But that original idea—paying a flat subscription fee to be able to see as many movies per month as you want—is still a damn good idea, which is why

the rock’s team just put out a statement that says nothing.

india arie: artist relations from spotify called me yesterday and they asked me what i want. i’m not gonna say it all here. what i want to say to you is something i already knew but i want you to know is that they said it last night [that] most of the streams on spotify are black music. if you’re paying attention at…

Forever his name shall be tarnished

Perfectly said. Congrats and keep it up. 

Steve-O has been a random inspiration for me to keep maintaining my drug recovery (albeit a few relapses). I figured if that guy can do it so can I.

Can we talk about how Steve-O is 47 years old and looks amazing considering everything he’s been through?

My understanding is it's been less "milking the same cow" and more "our KS campaign was successful beyond our wildest dreams so we added a bunch of stretch goals that unexpectedly took years to work through".

No, ‘bullshit’ is too many letters

Gonna be a classic CeCe/Winston Mess-Around!

- The realisation that Jamie Foxx could make a really interesting Electro if every other part of that decision making process wasn’t a flaming turd.

It’s possible, but I think the simpler explanation is that the movie literally summons everyone who knew who Spiderman is to the same place. Maybe the movie industry should try magicking their way to recovery.

It’s entirely possible millions of people meant to buy tickets for something else this weekend and mistakenly bought tickets for Spider-Man instead.

Are we sure it’s Strange Supreme from What If? His arc in that doesn’t really put him in a place to mess with the multiverse in live-action.

We look forward to Nintendo reasserting that it does not promote greylisting websites for doing journalism.