I disagree that she's using her sexuality to reassure anybody. Almost all of her bits that involve sex start out one way and end up totally subverting the premise. And some are pretty direct criticisms of how males control the conversation (the "Butterface" spy sketch, the female army video game rape sketch).

His douchiness re: Soul Coughing has managed to make me not enjoy listening to either SC or his earlier solo stuff any longer. I really liked his question jar shows for a while. But everything from Golden Delicious onward has been dire, and now he's just poisoning any goodwill with this kind of shit.

California follows the trend of most western, upper midwest, and northeast states, where the large population centers are more liberal than the rural areas, but with three semi-exceptions. Orange County, the Inland Empire, and San Diego are more or less conservative and populous, and that plus the insanely low bar for…

The documentary on IYFS on Pitchfork really does a great job explaining why the lyrics to those early B&S albums were so great. Basically, Stuart Murdoch developed chronic fatigue syndrome, and would just ride the bus around Glasgow and observe people, then go write songs. He was living vicariously through all the…

I'm a total outsider to this, but I would think some of the resentment is just due to the low number of lesbians. Meaning, every bi girl who dates dudes removes herself from the small pool of Kinsey 6 lesbians.

I don't know about that. He's actually trying to accommodate her sexual needs that he can't fulfill, but also doesn't want to only get part of her emotional life and time. Which would still be the case if the letter writer wanted two boyfriends at the same time.

Yeah. And that's not what the terms of the relationship ever were. The LW wants to change the mode from monogamish to poly with the LW at the center, and it's pretty clear that's why her boyfriend isn't being understanding and freaking out. As would 99% of anybody in that situation.

I think I read that Carrie would tune down her guitar to add a little more low and mid tones, but totally agree.

I'd go see Buck-O-Nine at the Soma when I'd come home from college. It was awesome.

Back in the Authenticity Wars of the early and mid '90s, the Battle of the Don't Speak Video was a particularly bloody engagement.

If a battalion of naked people descended on SF, we'd probably only really get upset if one guy was wearing Google Glass.

That was absurd. The depiction of journalists on that show is nuts. Katie Couric or whoever isn't going to grill the VP's wife about why they didn't have kids, with evidence, etc. Especially in the middle of an anthrax scare.

John Mulaney has a great bit about that, specifically about Law & Order. Guy Who Won't Stop Stacking Boxes when being questioned by the police, etc.

The worst is how all the real life media personalities LOVE appearing as themselves on a show, House of Cards, whose premise is that they're all being used for nefarious purposes and coverups.

In real life, fights are over in less than 10 seconds, usually when someone manages to land one heavy punch. This is usually the first real punch thrown.

The Welcoming Omnipotent Superhacker, most recently seen in House of Cards. The main character needs someone to hack some impenetrable network to get some specific information, and very quickly finds or is led to some incredible super hacker who can do it, and both knows everything about the main character and…

Any of the places in Calvino's "Invisible Cities."

On Vice they interviewed Stacy Martin, and they shot the scenes twice. Once with her and The Beef faking it, then with porn actors fucking for reals. They merged them in post.

I'm not saying Wes Anderson steps out of his comfort zone. He doesn't, but I don't get why that's a big deal as long as the movies are good.

I find it such a weird thing to get hung up on, especially considering that he's doing movies that are unlike any other movies out there.