My parents? My dude, I’m Gen X and turning 45 next month. Also I mostly listen to music from the last century. I can barely understand this shit my own self.

Just gonna go with all of Jesus Christ Superstar. I was raised in a totally religion-free household, but for some reason my stepfather (a non-observant Jew) was obsessed with this musical and we had the “Brown Album” version of it blasting on the stereo at least once a week. Not only did I not know anything about the…

On my way to and from work I frequently see a truck being driven by someone I assume lives in the neighborhood. (It’s a rural area, so there isn’t a lot of traffic.) It has a USMC sticker on one side of the bumper and an anti-Jane Fonda one on the other—I forget the exact wording, but it isn’t anything clever or…

The second movie is awful and only worth watching if you’re interested in seeing how drink Richard Burton could get and still stand up and recite lines. The third one is extremely good and contains the single best jump scare in cinema history. My brother saw it in the theater and still talks about how not only did the…

One of (female, Black) jurors that agreed to be in OJ: Made in America straight up admits the not guilty verdict was for “revenge for Rodney King”. She didn’t prevaricate or try to dance around it at all. She gave and gives zero fucks about 2 innocent people getting murdered or the pain of their loved ones, she just…

looks fairly normal beyond its ornate bat and spiderweb-covered gate

All the evidence aside, the woman who ghost wrote If I Did It says that during their interviews he would frequently drop the “hypothetical” framing language and just start saying “I did this, then I did that”.

I actually like “The Reaper’s Image”, I wish Stephen King wrote more of those kinds of “classic” spooky actually-short stories.

I still can’t fucking believe that Studio 60 had an entire episode about a skit based on commedia dell’arte. I tried explaining how bad this show was to my brother a couple of years back and he refused to believe that actually happened. Like for real, he was like “No way that happened, you still smoked pot back then,…

“Crude and lazy” describes everything Kevin Smith has done post, say, Dogma. Not that Dogma—or anything else Smith has made—was a great movie, but it felt like most of the people involved with it were at least halfway trying.

Bless your heart, I was making a joke. Not a very good one, it would seem.

Warren is in charge of Twitter now? I don’t remember that happening.

I know. I saw the documentary. I was just smushing them all together for hyperbolic effect.

I’ve read that excerpt before and I hate that I can actually hear exactly what Fey means by Fallon’s “faux-squeamish voice”. Jimmy Fallon is a sentient fart.

I’m glad this genre sounds like a migraine made incarnate to me so I don’t have to be conflicted about the awful interpersonal history of it. Although I suppose there are members of it who never murdered anyone and aren’t even white supremacist arsonists who photographed a friend’s suicided corpse for fun and profit,…

I’d never read any Blake Crouch before Recursion, although I watched the first season of Wayward Pines. I liked Recursion enough to probably read more of his work in the future.

Finishing up China Miéville’s New Crobuzon trilogy with Iron Council. Audio, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson, read by the author. He has a tendency to take the shamees at their word, which I find frustrating at times since I’m pretty sure a lot of them did not have the innocuous intentions claimed in the…

I only said it directly to one, but it was in the breakroom where at least half of the rest of them heard me, and I assume they gossiped about me to the rest. (This job was in a small town where 95% of the firm’s employees, not just my department, all went to high school together—or with each other’s siblings or…

Yeah, I definitely remember that being a take in addition to the Marvin Gaye rip-off. But you can’t sue someone for writing grotesquely misogynist lyrics, so it didn’t stay in the news as long as the latter.

Jesus. I know virtually nothing about K-pop, but 25 is so young, and it sounds like she had some positive ideas (that she predictably got dragged over coals for) for her industry. Depressing news.