I would dearly love to live some place infested with capybara, nature’s chillest animal.

I thought I was familiar with Johnson’s disgusting and obvious racism—I’d heard about the “letterboxes”, “pickaninnies”, and “watermelon smiles” comments—but the video of him wandering around Myanmar muttering “Road to Mandalay” was a new one. It’s not enough to be racist and openly pine for the good old days of…

Oh shit, y’all wrote about Troom Troom and I missed it. (Judging from the date, I was recovering from a hysterectomy/wacked out on painkillers at the time, so it’s understandable.) I’ve been low-key obsessed with those weirdo videos for a couple of years. I don’t understand why they exist or where the money comes…

Yay! I really enjoyed this show and was bummed that AV Club didn’t cover it, because I had no one to talk to about it. The whole season was great, but my favorite part was the Herbalife parody that was so spot-on that I was genuinely worried that Torres and Fabrega would get sued.

As a resident of rural Louisiana with four sugarcane fields on her street, that poem makes me laugh so hard because sugar does not grow on trees. Like, it adds an extra layer to Reed’s idiocy when you think about it.

Nash Bridges, aka The Show That Used to Fuck Up My Commute. Not as often as Critical Mass, granted.

I’m going to St. Augustine in October. Maybe I’ll drop in and say howdy.

Jesus, this bullshit was finally beginning to die down. I heard someone complain about the last season of Lost a few days ago though, so obviously people are going to be crying about how their tits n’ dragons show didn’t end the way they want it to until we all drown in melted polar ice caps. 

They think it’s part of their vaunted impartiality to not outright call him a racist, because “racist” carries a moral judgement. It’s the same way most outlets won’t call him a liar. Being a racist and a liar are unambiguously negative things.

Did she go with Klute in the end? It’s been a few years since I saw it, but I remember it feeling more ambiguous than that. Like maybe she was just leaving the city and starting fresh somewhere, not necessarily with him. I’ll have to watch it again; sometimes I like to watch Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy and throw in The…

That seems intuitive but when you’re talking about teenagers and suicide contagion, it’s not necessarily correct. Netflix listened to actual experts and made the changes they recommended.

Been seeing a lot of praise for Spectacular Failures, I’ll check it out.

I mean, in a perfect world, she’s not wrong. Unfortunately, we live in a version of the world where white nationalists boycott movies because they have icky girls in them and a bunch of dipshits on Twitter get a puckered asshole whenever anyone brings up Idris Elba as a potential James Bond. If there was perfect…

I just got through Hurricane Barry by reading a few Hercule Poirot novels, Murder in Mesopotamia, Appointment with Death, and Lord Edgeware Dies. I’m about to start Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life, and thought it would be fun to re-read some of the novels beforehand. I’ve read all of the Poirot novels, but except…

I put this in my own comment, but I said my brother has a better answer for this question than I do because he saw this movie in the theater, and he says that not only did everyone scream, they screamed twice. Like one scream wasn’t enough to release the tension.

Probably the Nazi face-melting in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Which isn’t scary at all and is kind of funny now as a 21st century adult, but I was 7 when it was in theaters; my parents did not censor when it came to any kind of media (that was around the same age that I loved reading the V.C. Andrews books that my mother…

I accept your apology. Katrina was terrible and a lot of people are still dealing with it.

I assumed it was a woman, I think because of the “hon”, but you could be right. The gender matters less to me than the completely unasked-for condescension masquerading as advice.

Are you going to pay for my hotel and food, and write me checks when my job fires me for skipping town? I didn’t ask your advice and I don’t want it, thanks. I’ve dealt with hurricanes before, as have my ancestors going back to the 1740s, so I think I’m a better judge of when to stay put and when to run than internet…

I’m in southwest Louisiana and until a couple of hours ago we were still trying to guess which side of the state Barry would impact. They’re only extending flash flood warnings as far west as Morgan City, which I am a good hour + drive west of, so it should be okay, but I am pretty terrified for what this could mean…