Relatively off topic but I don’t care: Is anyone else amazed that the Corn Pop story seems to have some truth to it?

oh it absolutely sounds like a waste and like a total surface level nudge toward the king of comedy. i was just surprised Hagi didn’t mention it; shallow or not that seems like why it matters that De Niro is there.

i take you aren’t familiar with the king of comedy?

“it made it too easy for him to write off-the-cuff remarks that would be unfair and assholish”

If you were really concerned about Yang and Fineman being overshadowed by this shitweasel couldn’t you have written an article about them instead of devoting so much space to this? 

yeah, i feel that. especially the subset (i hope its a subset, anyway) that goes to those movies to see their ideal vision of masculinity. it’s a real bummer, imo, because problematic leads can make such great movies but the anti-hero worshipping bullshit that goes with all that is inexcusable 

oh absolutely! i just thought that your mention of Oswalt’s bit in this context was a funny coincidence.

Not that one movie (or even one director/editor pair) detracts from your point but the big bad too long movie in this article (the Irishman) is edited by Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese’s tough-as-nails longtime editor.

Yeah, movies ARE way too long. How can I binge Friends if I have to sit through a 2.5 hour movie? 

that’s the america i want to live in, an inclusive world that’s twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom. 

but you were thinking of the children! you were literally thinking of the children!

Helen Lovejoy, is that you? 

I don’t know that the Wing ever wanted to create an alternative to the old boys club, I think its goal was to create a gendered inverse and profit off that. The whole idea always seemed to me to be a solution to a problem that creates its own future problems. 

*involuntarily sings proud to be an american* 

that’s why it says lawsuit, dumbass

i can’t wait til she starts waiting around hospitals, shaking down every parent who dare names a kid “taylor”

i don’t see anything here! is there an image that isn’t loading for me?

to me, shipping feels like treating people (in this case real people, not characters) like action figures or dolls and def doesn’t sit well 

yeah, its super weird and childish. i think its an extension of fan culture bleeding into the real world. 

i’m honestly okay with near extinction if it means that we’ll all be replaced with immortal judges who can bang out a mean guitar riff