I think it’s just the juxtaposition of several factual things—she was an “ex” fiance, she was murdered, production of his show is shutting down—in one line that is making it feel that way. I don’t actually think the AV Club is implying that.

So they’re like Troom Troom, but for adults/adults who don’t have whatever weird kink those videos are catering to. (I have a friend with an 8-year-old daughter who is VERY into those videos, and she’s always having to dissuade her from like, gluing candy to fake fingernails to “sneak food into class”.)

How did the worst MTV VJ from my teenage years become someone who scares Boomers about socialism on Faux News? Tarantino’s final film (if he really sticks to that 10 movies thing) should be a revisionist dramedy about the end of the 20th century in America, where Kurt Cobain shoots Kennedy instead of himself. You can…

He was in the first season of Dead To Me, which is very good. Umm... I don’t think he’s gonna be in season 2.

Currently reading Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep. It’s pretty good, although she does go down some weird tangents (briefly discussing the first murder of a non-indigenous person in America, etc.). But it’s never boring.

My brother and I were just talking about Ravenous a couple of weeks ago. I don’t know why that movie wasn’t a bigger hit at the time and isn’t better remembered today.

Rebecca is my “desert island book”, but I’ve never been a fan of the Hitchcock movie*. It always felt more like a David O. Selznick movie than a Hitchcock one (I’m sure Selznick was responsible for that damn omnipresent melodramatic score). I’m looking forward to seeing a hopefully less shticky adaptation. I’m not…

Sigh. I loved watching the syndicated run of Wild Wild West as a wee Gen Xer, and it definitely wasn’t because of Robert Conrad’s extremely tight pants and cropped cavalry jacket, heavens no.

Reminds me of the chapter about Hudson Hawk in With Nails, where Richard Grant talks about how David Caruso, whose character was mute, refused to talk to anyone during the entire shoot. Which is a choice, I guess, but the kicker is when he cornered Grant at the wrap party and angrily demanded to know why Grant had…

Maybe? I grew up in California (Bay Area) and it seems like people from the east coast usually refer to it as mulch or wood chips. It was big chunks though, bigger than either of those terms imply. Whatever you call it, it was the fucking worst.

They all had that awful tanbark that would lodge splinters in every uncovered body part if you so much as brushed against it.

Yeah, I definitely prefer the lower-stakes bastards, where there aren’t any like, genocides or mass sexual assault on children as a result of their bastardy. A ridiculous fake business imploded when their wannabe cult leader crapped all over the IPO and a bunch of people got cut off from a free kombucha supply, big…

Behind the Bastards recently did an episode about Adam Neumann and WeWork that you might enjoy, Evans’ co-hosts for the episode were Dan and Jordan from Knowledge Fight.

I subscribe to a lot of Wondery podcasts and was initially annoyed to see a dozen downloads of the same trailer for this in my feed. But then I read the description and was like FUCK YES; WeWork is my new favorite start-up/venture capitalism “unicorn” trainwreck since the bones of Theranos have been picked mostly…

I’ve read the article and am still looking forward to the series. It looks fun; that shot in the trailer of a post-it on a ‘90s-style desktop computer reading “McDonald’s Monopoly fraud?” next to one reading “buy flowers for wife” is straight out of the Billy Corben documentary style playbook.

Clark was a lil’ bit hacky and formulaic, but god did I love her books when I was a teenager—Christie was the mystery novelist of my childhood; Clark the one of my adolescence. I credit her books and the show Dateline with my decision to never get married, because marriage inevitably leads to either murder, or being…

I thought this was probably the best episode so far and would have given it a better grade. The whole scene with Ryan and Karen was great, with Ryan forgetting which people know about which lies, and “That’s a very odd menu”. Also did we know he’s apparently in a polygamous marriage? Because that reveal, and the line…

* It’s the Peach Crease, which I find hilariously raunchy.

I don’t give a fart in a hurricane about foobaw, so to me Vick is always just going to be that asshole who tortured and killed dogs, and also I guess he could run fast or throw a ball real good or some shit.

I question the use of the phrase “contemporary anxiety about tainted water” if the movie quotes from the actual source material.