Joshua, the Widower Carroll had an affair with Mare’s mother, not the mother of the teenaged vandal. Did you black out during the immediately following scene of Mare laughing hysterically while Helen protested she couldn’t even remember how many times she slept with him? Good lord.

This movie was a complete waste of Jennifer Jason Leigh.

My brother’s mother-in-law got in very, very early on the Beanie Babies thing and made some money off them. Not millions or anything, but enough to build a pool deck and take a cruise. Some people did make money buying and selling them, but the window was very brief and it pretty much only happened in the Chicagoland…

The Cabbage Patch Kids brawls (1983) happened years before the Tickle Me Elmo (1996) ones. I had just turned 9 Christmas of 1983 and was squarely in the demographic for a Cabbage Patch Kid, but my mother gave me one the following Easter instead because they were just impossible to find during the holidays, unless you…

What’s the over/under on the usual alt-right dummies organizing one of their always-successful boycotts because iNDiaN gUY iN a wHITe rOLe?

I think he’s said he’s not interested. Which is a shame, because I’ve been saying for years that the next Bond should be Anglo-Indian.

I’m pretty sure they’re getting money from HBO, or possibly Rice’s agent. This is the second article I’ve seen that was less about the show and more about the character Rice plays in it; the other one was “a complete oral history” of Androgynous, the fake band Siobhan’s in, which... have we even seem them perform at…

“You can learn what the fuck a box spread is, bitch!”

Just started Thomas Thompson’s Serpentine, the book about Charles Sobhraj that the recent Netflix series The Serpent was based on. Biggest revelation that wasn’t in the show (I don’t remember it, anyway) is that Sobhraj, the illegitimate child of a Vietnamese woman and an Indian man living in Saigon, was essentially a…

I watched this a couple of months ago, when I had given up fighting insomnia and started clicking around HBO Max. I found it weirdly fascinating, in spite of—or maybe because of?—how slowly it moved. (The first half is Marie trying to get Louis to fuck her.) The conclusion I reached was that her life was so…

Ford Prefect, because he's so froody. Also, although the movie wasn't perfect, I'll always picture him as Mos Def.

Kennedy is one of my senators, in case you wondered why I drink heavily. He looks like someone carved the bust of a mediocre Confederate general out of canned biscuit dough, and it’s starting to come to room temperature. My mother calls him “Senator Cornpone” and screams that his accent is fake every time he’s on the…

He’s nervous about something or other.

I know this movie climaxes (shut up) with the protagonists blasting lasers at albino apes in a semi-mythical jungle city, but what I most remember about it was how incredibly hamfisted the Taco Bell product placement was. Like, they try to rip off the opening scene of Rear Window, where a silent pan of the hero’s…

Totally. All the younguns in my true crime Facebook group are squealing over the potential return of Jonathan Groff, but Holt McCallany is in my top 5 Hey It’s That Guy and I always knew he had a lead role in him. Would love to see more.

Ted Nugent has made it very difficult for anyone who isn’t a QAnon dummy to even slightly enjoy his music.

I 1,000% agree, but I’ve also been known to drunkenly tweet THE MONKEES ARE BETTER THAN THE BEATLES FIGHT ME BITCH more than once, so... has anyone ever proposed carving John, Paul, George, and Ringo into a mountainside to offset toxic racism?* Because you can sign a petition to add Big Boi and Andre 3000 to Stone…

Oh my god, I forgot all about this pathetic dingleberry. “SHOUTING INANE CONSPIRACY THEORIES CLEARLY HOPING TO GET DRAMATICALLY DRAGGED OFF!!!” *sputters to a halt, stomps off sadly* Thanks for reminding me.

52? Damn. Fuck you, cancer. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I was saving Peaky Blinders for when I really needed it, and that time came a couple years ago while I was recovering from a hysterectomy, one that was NOT done laparoscopically as a tumor the size of a softball also had to be removed. I spent hours…

It’s one of the things I keep bookmarked for when I need a quick laugh, along with a bunch of articles about Juicero and Fyre Fest. I guess I’m kind of a mean person.