Prince’s third album, Dirty Mind.”I Wanna Be Your Lover” from the previous record got my attention as something innovative and urgently sexual, but Dirty Mind fulfilled the promise of that song and pushed even further into genre blending newness and frank eroticism. Combined with Prince’s gender and race challenging…

Oh, Daria all the way. I watched that and my mother was never going to bully me into a cheerleader uniform again. “Sorry, Mom, MTV tells me sarcasm is cool and I don’t have to buy into the patriarchy. Let’s revisit this conflict over the rest of our lives until we don’t talk to each other for a month after you vote…

I grew up in a conservative Islamic community that was, for some reason, completely against rock, but rap was acceptable. All this kids I knew listened to 2-Pac and Outkast, et al. And because I didn’t know any better, I went with the herd.

And not even the magic of photoshop or Facetune can provide a chin for that nimrod Junior.

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It’s like cottage cheese and plain white bread started dating

How the hell could she not like “Chelsea Girl”?

I was thinking the same thing.  She should have been thrilled with Chelsea Girl, especially given the quality of her future output.

How the hell could she not like “Chelsea Girl”??

Megan Abbott’s doctoral thesis/book, The Street Was Mine, is well worth a read, on its own and in this context. It focuses on the detectives of noir fiction, and makes many of the same point Bolin does concerning how the male avenging figure uses the image of the dead girl as a romantic outlet.

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I just looked at his photo. That is one douchebag trust fund baby if I ever saw one.

I was just telling my coworker this morning about a woman I dated for a few months who, near the end of our blessedly brief relationship, held me down and forcibly licked my eyeballs.

Actual professional editor here.

I clicked on Vadim’s name to pull up a list of his articles. Here they are in reverse chronological order, skipping only ensemble articles:

wait up now ... you also forgot Dinesh is a physical abuser (as Dixie has testified) and has lied while under oath in court He’s just another swell GOP JackAss

You forgot “Known Adulterer,” although I suppose you could argue that it’s implied, seeing as he’s a modern Republican.

Every two years beginning in 2012, Dinesh D’Souza has released a “documentary” 

They have a cool name, though!

I follow a guy on twitter who has said multiple times that his favorite acting performance of the century so far is the kid who gets shot in the foot in City of God.