*shrug* I read the entire series and found it middling overall (some very good parts, some really terrible parts, mostly just okay), so I’m not really invested in how closely the movie hews to the source material. And I’ll watch Idris Elba in anything.

"Any good?" Yes. It's not great, and the nuts and bolts of the politics it portrays are ludicrous, and last season was kind of bonkers. But it's consistently entertaining.

Thanks, i was just curious.

“I love Edmund Fitzgerald’s voice!” “No, it was sung by Gordon Lightfoot.” “I thought Gordon Lightfoot was the name of the ship?” “Yeah, and it was rammed by the Cat Stevens.”

I’m with you. I’m not into his shtick at all, but I can see why other people would enjoy it and he seems pretty harmless. (Although I did enjoy reading that one savage review of his Times Square restaurant, but that’s just part of my weird enjoyment of people criticizing bad food and restaurants; see also: my love of…

I always liked the idea of an Anglo-Indian Bond, especially one who is a Sikh. I mean, they carry daggers with them at all times, so they're already pretty badass.

Sorry, I lost my pigfucking redneck-to-actual English dictionary and have no idea what mangled mushmouth bullshit you're trying to spew from your facehole. Bye now!

I guess you missed the part where I said I lived in south Louisiana, you illiterate herpes blister. There certainly were never any murders in Houston before Katrina, no never! Go peddle your bullshit lies (that have nothing to do with my actual comment) somewhere else, you hoofwanking bunglecunt.

I bring that up whenever anyone tries to play the Bar Bush: Nice Old Lady card. NOPE RACIST PIECE OF SHIT FUCK HER FOREVER. (I live in south Louisiana, so… yeah.)

"Ofra"???

They have the largest audience whose average age is 68.

My favorite moment was when Bill O’Reilly expressed amazement that no one at Sylvia’s (an upscale Harlem restaurant with a predominantly Black clientele) was yelling for “more m-f’ing iced tea”. Like, he was genuinely surprised that Black people know how to behave at a fancy restaurant. And he acted like he was being…

Please stop trying to adapt this book, unless PBS is willing to go balls-out with Ken Burns' World War Z. 6 hours, minimum.

"He's been here 20 years longer than me and New York City in the '80s was basically The Purge."

It was coffee because I watch LWT on Monday morning, but there was a spit-take. What made it funnier for some reason was that for a minute I couldn't tell if it was actually Gilbert Gottfried or someone doing a GG impersonation.

Wikipedia doesn’t elaborate on why Verna is the prime suspect. Because he lived at an address in Philadelphia that appeared on one of the tiles in South America. This is a very well-known bit of lore among those who are interested in the tiles, so I have no idea why it wouldn't be in the Wikipedia article.

Welp, I've been wavering back and forth on whether or not I want to watch this and realizing the actual suicide takes place on screen has firmly landed me in the NOPE column. I get why they did it and I'm not condemning them for it, it's just something I very much don't want to see.

The Elementals by Michael McDowell, which my Kindle recommended to me because I bought Marisha Pessl’s Night Film. I was equally parts intrigued that a) MacDowell’s most famous work was the screenplay for Beetlejuice (!), and b) that it mostly takes place on the Gulf shore of Alabama, very near where my parents have a…

I follow an Instagram account that’s photos of Simpsons-related tattoos people get, and some of them are pretty obscure. A few days ago I saw a tattoo of one of the “Leader Beans” from the Joy of Sect episode.

Eh, looks a little gummy. And isn't that "stuff dripped on the plate" thing kind of passé?