Get Trump to endorse it, Reelz will pick it up…albeit with a bizarre twist featuring Hannibal getting "hard on immigration" and only eating Latinos while tricking Graham into building a border wall made of immigrant bones, or something. Y'know, basically Trump's ideal real life border strategy.

I would argue that torture porn is the horror genre crossing that taboo line. It isn't something that the mainstream seeks out, not something most people take dates to. It was briefly popular, but is arguably semi-dead, at least as far as popular taste runs.
In the end, we might like to push the edge for a time, but…

It's hardly a perfect analogy, but I kinda view incestuous parings as the opposite side of the coin to slasher horror. Romance horror, if you will. They're both at the extreme end of what we consider okay to take in as entertainment without crossing the line into genuinely disturbing.
In other words, both scenarios are…

See? You get it. TiC writes itself!

Only if the poster tag line is,"Twins…in crime!"
Seriously, it's about the most delightful phrase I've ever encountered.

Just recently got deep in a Wikipedia page listing twins, a subsection of which was Twins in Crime…
I can't get that phrase out of my head. I mean, how perfect is that as a name for ANYthing…a band, a movie, a reality anything…
Twins in Crime.
Coming soon!

I had kind of the opposite experience. I first read several chapters of Bad Machinery before going back and tearing through Bobbins/Scary Go Round, only to find that several of those characters vaguely annoyed me compared to the Bad M kids (god help me, I just can't bring myself to like Shelley much). I'd chalk it up…

Boo on Nimona for taking down most of its online content…yay for Giant Days for being a well-earned commercial expression of John Allison's worthy comic worth.

I'm on the fence about creepypastas. On the one hand, there's some genuinely creepy, creative writing there.
On the other, I'm not 13, and Slender Man is effin dumb.

It probably was an honest mistake, but still an example of people defaulting everything as male without a thought. It's also an in-yo-face to the jerks who declare making everything male is just "realistic" and being "true to source material".
Still, I bet MRAs are blowing up over the tyrannical feminization of…

The only way this project could go bad at this point is if they extend it too far, stretching 3, maybe 4 seasons of material at the very best beyond the established story arch.
Which they will.
Giving us unbearable season long stories of Shadow and Anansi traveling around Iceland, playing politics with fairy tribes or…

Prairie Home doesn't hold much appeal these days, but I always enjoy catching the Writer's Almanac. Just a couple minutes of the most soothing, homey voice alive talking about obscure writers and reading a poem…followed by a homey plug for my beloved Thundercloud Subs, in service of Austin's NPR station.

As always, the 4th wall is..us!

I hope Hannibal makes it, being an extremely well done, ambitious show.
But at the same time…I just can't watch it. It's too much, too oppressive, too soul crushing. I even read Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs in high school, but found myself messed up by every episode of this show I saw.
And that's why it should be…

Musicals written as musicals can be a lot of fun, but I just don't have the gene that craves anything and everything to be set to music and dance. And this is coming from someone who was a huge theater geek in high school. Plays are beautiful enough—why slather them with globs of saccharine song and dance? Does it…

Fertility is handled so oddly in pop culture. Most shows eventually have a "trying to get pregnant" arch, and even though around half of pop culture characters end up being improbably infertile, options like adoption are almost always off the board. The explanation is always this blatantly horrible, bland excuse of…

Good for him. Too many child actor stories are terrible enough without pop culture's ghoulish reactions to them making it even worse. "Ha! That kid's life was terrible and now they're a wreck! Hilarious! I hope they develope a serious drug problem, that would REALLY be funny!"

"Female", "lady", and "girl" are all still pretty troublesome prefixes in this day and age. It's basically a way of either showing surprise that a woman actually holds a certain position ("We got waved through by this girl construction worker!!"), or blaming misfortune on women's "inherent" incompetence/bias/whatever…

I feel like YA going the way of mysteries, or even romance—plugging in slightly different characters and themes into a template that a core fan base will always respond to. Sure, it' probably always been like that to a degree, but I feel that for the first time YA is reaching the boiled down point of mysteries/romance…

I've always thought Keaton made a great Batman, but a terrible Bruce Wayne.
In any case, good to see him working again.