your incuriosity is so incisive and charming!

yeah, I prefer the hard-hitting introspection of Whatever You’re Doing It’s Working, or Your Comments Don’t Suck

“And I loved you.”

Like, past tense? This made you no longer love this guy?

Because he’s clearly ragging on social media stars, not Timothy Chalamet, and it feels like his tongue is pretty firmly in cheek either way.

Your loss, Tartuffe.

Look! It's the person who's right about everything! 

There’s a reasonably popular annual trend of people reading ‘Dracula’ together on the dates of the various letters, diary entries etc of the book and sharing their reactions online. Social media has its flaws, but it does have a remarkable ability to connect people across all sorts of niche shared interests.

Like a lot of cultural touchstone references, you don’t have to have read Proust to know the basic fundamental reference. It’s done in Ratatouille when the food critic has one bite of his dish and is transported back to childhood and his mother’s cooking. So, Pixar respects its audience more than Warner respects…

She’s just screaming questions.

Nathan Rabin and his Year of Flops was on the Freddy Got Fingered train long before Criterion: https://www.avclub.com/my-year-of-flops-case-file-61-freddy-got-fingered-1798212339

Pizza?  Never heard of it!  

To this very day, I cannot believe that Bruce Springsteen released Born to Run when he was 26. Genius.

I get the sentiment but “The Rising,” “Meet Me At Mary’s Place,” “Death to My Hometown,” “Ghost of Tom Joad,” “Youngstown,” “Land of Hope and Glory,” and several more are as good as anything pre-Nebraska. Mrs. Grocery and I saw him Thursday night and “The Rising” was as anthemic as “Thunder Road.”

I thought it was a little too heavy on his first two albums, but the top 10 is hard to argue with 

There will always be people stupid enough to laugh with the Archie Bunker type characters because they agree with what they are saying. We can’t let these idiots self censor us from mocking them. The artistic feat here is to make racist, reactionary characters as absurd and psychotic as their terrible ideas.

Some people use English degrees for good, some people use them for...well, this kind of thing.

We know that Sony has the resources to make not Spider-Man Spidey movies. We know they can make them bad. Do they have the moxie to make the sure fire lollapalooza that a Turner D. Century production would be?

Like it or not, Foundation counts. The first book is unfilmable as a coherent TV series or movie, unless they could make it work as an anthology, and even then without a major overhaul it would be as dull as dishwater.

This would be my choice too.

For me, the Great Unfilmable is Gene Wolfe’s body of work, particularly the Book of the New Sun novels. They’ve got plenty of action and translatable visual spectacle, but everything that makes them really special, from the unreliable narrators to the beauty of the language to the time-travel shenanigans, could not…