“Emma [Watson]’s diction is this side of Albania at times

I was gonna say, why does he keep calling her “alive girl”??

some kind of 70-year-old Irish Gen-Xer

I’m so confused about the skit. Like maybe it’s one of those “it wasn’t funny on paper but it was in the execution” things, but it sounds like it was literally just adults leering at half-naked children. Isn’t that just... less comedy and more literal child porn? (Child porn-adjacent, anyway.) 2013 wasn’t THAT long…

Clay Higgins is my congressman, so I can assure you that he always acts like that. He may be drunk sometimes, but he is always very, very stupid. He was also fired from two law enforcement jobs—in Louisiana! He was too bad at law enforcement for Louisiana!!—and is on wife #5. So it’s probably safe to assume that no,…

If you want to commit crimes in Louisiana, do it outside of metro areas with police forces, where the sheriff’s office would be responsible. I think this is kind of the case in a lot of places, but as someone who lives here I can tell you for sure that the SOs are places where complete fuckups find employment after…

Is this a new thing? I don’t remember stories about weirdly obsessive, sycophantic applause in previous film festival coverage, but admittedly it’s not something I follow very closely. It reminds me of those (possibly apocryphal) stories about how the first person to stop clapping after Stalin gave a speech would get…

I assume these are the same “fans” of the show who were shocked to find out that a character that looked like a Nazi wet dream and was named “Homelander” was meant to be a villain.

My favorite role of his was The Quiet American. It’s one of my favorite books, and he was an absolutely perfect Alden Pyle.

How strange, I am right in the middle of a re-read of Mystery, which along with Ghost Story is one of my favorite books.

You freaks are so eager to say goodbye to the joys of summer, I have to wonder what you’re running from

Is this the daughter whose child died and she wasn’t allowed to grieve, because it would have conflicted with Shamblin’s public prosperity gospel-driven “I can do all things through God which strengthens me blah blah blah” persona? 

I think it depends on how old you were when you saw it (and possibly how high you were). If you saw it as an adolescent you probably still think it’s cool, but I was about 30 before I saw it and was like “WTF this is dumb as dogshit”.

But the Ukrainian victim was also an immigrant. So I feel like there’s something about immigrants from Africa especially that she doesn’t like, but I just can’t put my finger on it...?

Pretty sure we didn’t stop sending children to work in coal mines and textile mills “because capitalism”.

John McAfee had more coherent policy positions than this weirdo.

Louisiana’s abortion ban was signed into law by our “Democratic” governor.

Yeah, I had to Google it. 

I quit watching the show after they did that animal-smuggling storyline that culminated with Cragen shouting the immortal line “The monkey’s in the basketball!”, something I fully expect to blurt out at the moment of my death. I assumed the show reached its apotheosis with that episode and it was pointless to watch…

their shared van