This.

"This younger generation is terrible! Why haven't they fixed the economy we fucked up yet? Pour me another martini, Clyde; I'm about to send another first draft in to Tina Brown boasting about my sterling work ethic."

Millennials can't get enough political dramas starring people who could be their parents, don't you know!

Speaking of which:

I think you've just put your finger on what she finds so unpalatable in the modern world; if she was starting out now, nobody would notice her. She'd be just another spoilt, self-regarding blogger who wants the world to listen to her pain and her pain only. She'd be Cat Marnell.

Double post, ignore.

Damn. I was really hoping the Republicans were going to go through a major part of their electoral cycle while refusing to appear on a major news network. Maybe if that worked, they could refuse to appear on any news network! Then never appear in public! The sky's the limit!

Zack Snyder's interviews about that were comedy gold. He wanted to, like, y'know, create a really strong feminist movie that caused fanboys to reflect on their objectification of women, but, y'know, it's OK to shove the camera up Emily Browning's skirt every. Fucking. Shot.

Watching the trailers for the second movie, I really don't know whether it's going to be good or bad, but I feel like I already know Portman is going to do her best to sink it. She seems to make it a target to do one movie per decade where her every line delivery doesn't make me cringe, and this isn't it.

The best kind!

I remember that case, and although Brown was immensely disingenuous on the stand, I did agree with the verdict. If novelists could be sued for being inspired by factual events, the major news channels would have a field day suing everyone who's written a novel about 9/11.

I tried to read AHWOSG when my dad was dying of cancer, and I still couldn't find anything even slightly moving or interesting in it. Later on a friend bought me a McSweeney's compilation for Christmas, and though there was some good stuff in it (Paul LaFarge, and some of the non-fiction and humour pieces) most of it…

I always associate him with H8R these days. Surprised he doesn't want to namecheck that iconic piece of television.

"You feminists are so thin-skinned and easily offended! I will continue to whine like a baby for the next eight hours solid because you do not enjoy something I do!"

Britain had one of its periodic recent 'debates' about banning burkhas recently, too. I can easily imagine a lot of the people sending threats here went onto the Daily Star website with curry-stained fingers, typed something about "our country, our rules", then went off to say a woman should expect rape threats when…

Yeah, I've got to admit I'm OK with people sending rape threats under their real names. Maybe they could improve it - say, adding their home addresses, or CCing every woman they know - but for now, keep up the good work, fuckwits!

I don't remember the movie that well, but could it just be that watching Stephen Fry have sex is like watching your favourite teddy bear have sex? Worse, have sex with someone else?

I'm reminded of this unfortunate poster placement, though it's much easier to imagine the marketing team in the earlier case being unaware of the problem. If I was in charge of placing posters for a movie about a very, very famous person dying young, the first thing I would do would be to check where they snuffed it…

I'm reminded of this unfortunate poster placement, though it's much easier to imagine the marketing team in the earlier case being unaware of the problem. If I was in charge of placing posters for a movie about a very, very famous person dying young, the first thing I would do would be to check where they snuffed it…

And let's not forget that classic paper 'The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard'.