I am terribly, terribly, terribly offended

Billy Eichner’s contract was up, so there was an opening.

Then it sounds like a perfect match of film and filmmaker.

I have a friend who played a gig with Pinkus’s band Honky, and they socialized afterward. My friend says he’s fun company and a heck of a nice guy.

David Cronenburg just ordered a gross of these things (pun totally intended) to hand out as party favors.

I probably would have called out John Woo, another singular stylist who did a couple of movies with him at the height of his freak-a-zoid A-list period.

Hey, I got ya. Heart is not merely an important ideal, not merely the most important ideal, it’s the only ideal. Context, critical analysis; these are just the trans-fats of the cultural discussion, clogging the arteries of virtue. I can’t possibly call out a particular person for taking the message down a bad road,…

Yeah, particular given that Nic Cage didn’t do movies with De Palma, he did movie, and that movie was Snake Eyes, which doesn’t appear to have many defenders.

Hey man, you just don’t get it. We’re not talking about people here with any degree of basic awareness or capability to act on their own agency, we’re talking about women. Don’t you realize that if a man- any man: a three foot tall man with no arms and legs and a calcium deficiency- dared a woman to do jumping jacks…

I didn’t watch any of it. The article briefly alludes to some antics involving a dead fish, but it didn’t say anything about what you describe, and clearly the focus was about tasering a dead rat, and this is what I’ve been responding to. And while I don’t find that funny, and while I might find it slightly gross, I…

Is your logic that being “an incredibly cruel regime that is currently starving millions of people” is not worthy of protest because they are not, in your personal analysis of the term, our “enemy”?

I think we’re arguing apples and oranges. Overreacting to you apparently is a function of volume: being detailed and specific about my positions seems to cross some line of appropriate response. I apologize; I don’t have a Twitter account. To me, overreaction is a function of tone: some dumbass punks horseplaying with…

desecrating -to divert from a sacred to a profane use or purpose

I am annoyed by this as well. In fact, so much that I have reached the paramount of my irritation. So I guess you could say that

I can’t really even go to psychopathic with it. It’s juvenile, it’s not high comedy- I get that we’re not talking about Moliere here- but it’s squarely in the category of hi-jinks. Inane, unfunny teenager hi-jinks, mildly gross hi-jinks, but hi-jinks none the same. So where’s the ‘Outrage!’? They discovered dead rats,…

Somebody help me out here. So what’s upsetting or offensive about this?

Disney Streaming: No viscera, no naughty bits!

Yeah, but that analogy feels like he’s made the movie equivalent of pulling someone out of the audience whose never played an instrument, stuck a trumpet in his hand, and said, “Do what you can.” I mean there’s a difference between ‘not doing it perfectly’ and ‘not knowing what the fuck you’re doing.’ I get that…

Having not been on set, I can’t say that this is what did happen. But based on what I’m reading here, the presumption is that Eastwood directed this in his signature One-Take style. Up until now, I would be inclined to attribute that to his belief in the professionalism of his actors; you’ve got quality talent, and…

Probably not a good thing in all honesty.