Yours is the minority opinion on those counts.

Project Veritas will soon release their heavily-edited video account of this story:

Lorde getting an Album of the Year nomination but nothing else is nonsense. Particularly her absence from the songwriting category, as she can write circles around most artists.

I enjoy that, after interdimensional travel initially being a Big Damn Deal, Kara and Alex are now using it as the equivalent of a post-breakup roadtrip to a friend’s wedding.

The way things are going, Trump will probably be tweeting this circa November 2018 after the GOP gets hammered in the midterms.

My main reading project this month was Ron Chernow’s Grant biography, which was a very good read. Grant is an ideal character to bridge you from the events of the Civil War through the failure of Reconstruction, the consequences of which we’re still stuck with today.

Meanwhile, the trailer for Sherlock Gnomes makes a strong case that the makers of said film should be tried for crimes against humanity. I had to sit through that when I went to see both Coco and Wonder this week.

Well, I cried while watching it. So I can’t say it wasn’t a big success for me.

The Donald Jr & Eric sketches may need to be updated for the fact that real world evidence increasingly suggests that Eric is the smarter of the two.

My favourite recent piece of writing on Morrissey:

Yes, but the point is having the external markers of talent don’t mean you have talent. The son of the great cook, can’t cook. The woman, and the rat, can. And should be given a chance because the fact that they don’t come from greatness doesn’t mean they aren’t great. Meanwhile, the Incredibles? If you have…

Ratatouille has the same interest in individual greatness as The Incredibles (and his later Tomorrowland). I wouldn’t say it can be interpreted as a corrective.

What makes Syndrome the villain?

I’ve never understood where this reading of the series comes from, since the main character’s arc is explicitly a rejection of class barriers. The Kingsmen don’t run the world (if anything, that’s what the villain tries to do), they’re a fairly stock private hero organization (no different, really, than the Avengers),…

Pixar had to wait for Brad Bird’s career to cool off before they could get him back to make a sequel. Tomorrowland was just the trick!

Rebecca’s often been pretty terrible to Valencia, but it’s easy to understand why the latter would say that this friendship is a first for her.

Kingsman: The Secret Service showed that you can update the more outlandish James Bond tropes and have something that endure than most of what has resulted from the grittier reboots. Gazelle is a thousand times cooler and more memorable a henchman than any of an endless parade of grizzled dudes with guns and/or knives.

Gina Rodriguez as the Virgin Mary is great in-joke casting, if nothing else.

Conversely, if access to the prison was a dead giveaway, Keller presumably wouldn’t kill him there.

The plot went overdrive here in terms of tying up some of the previous episode’s seemingly big developments. I thought the swerve with Toni was well-done, though the healing of the divide between Jughead and the others was a bit abrupt; though Archie coming to try to save him from jail (which, of course he’d do that)…