Considering art on its own terms is a major critical position with a lot of writing to back it up. In this case, though, it brings up the question of whether or not art can be racist or Fascist all on its own without bringing the author into it. If the author doesn't matter, then the art has no defense from its…

It's strange how metal seems to attract virtuosos who then chain themselves to doing basically the same thing for song after song, album after album. I don't get the nerdy desire to sub-classify metal subgenres until there's basically one genre per band. I have to think that some of the better players want to…

Power metal, melodic death metal, classic heavy metal: the only ones I ever really loved. It's not a genre for me.

I like some metal, but I could never get into black metal. Every example I've heard had a fast-as-possible blast beat going through the whole thing, really obnoxious keyboards, and some dude shrieking. It seems like a good number of people love it, but I don't know if I could ever be one of them.

I see the problem with Spawn as being primarily a matter of his overall arc being too clear-cut. He's basically Faust. Sooner or later, he has to face Satan and resolve his debt. After a point, doing other things instead of getting to that is just spinning the story's wheels.

Alinsky's name has taken on a strange totemic significance to certain US conservative sub-groups. I've usually seen and heard it invoked in the same contexts as "social engineering". I think it's due to Alinsky still being of interest to community organization. I learned about him in a class on that topic. I think…

If I remember correctly, that Cyrillic character sounds nothing like an "R". Anyone using a screen reader to look at this will probably have a pretty confused couple of seconds working out what the hell that word sounds like.

Yours is definitely better. "Concerneor" doesn't flow very well and it's not very backwards-compatible, so to speak.

How does a Smurf say "cocksucker"? Smurfsmurfer?

I think you're thinking of John.

We've got one in London ON. Still the best deal for families who want to make a whole night of it. We'd cram our car full and then spread out with lawn chairs and portable radios and a ridiculous amount of junk food. Such memories at the old Mustang, even if it was seemingly impossible for them to group two or…

You could try "Euge! Attat, non concerneor"*, but I'd run that by someone whose Latin classes weren't over a decade ago.

It depends on where you are. I'm in farming country and my vegetarian diet is way cheaper than one with meat. If I were up in Northern Ontario, it'd be the other way 'round.

My girlfriend ran a hobby farm and wants to get back to doing it. She raised rabbits, quail, and ducks, in addition to gardening. It was a lot of work, but she says that her animals were very well-cared-for and she basically ate for free, in a monetary sense.

I'm going to guess "saving the cost of a taxi". This really seems like an impaired driver who improvised a creative story to me.

Exactly. This site is hardly a fallen version of some perfect critical Arcadia. They had good writers, they have good writers, they'll probably keep having good writers. I wish that we had more long-form stuff here, too, but I want that everywhere*. If the current state is as bad as it's going to get, then it's…

Wasn't Bronn's actor part of a pop duo?

Also music, books, and comics. TV Club existed when I started coming here, but it really started to ramp up after a couple of years. It seemed like they were reviewing anything that had any notable qualities and filling in the past with TV Club Classic.

I can't quit Facebook entirely because my personal circle got really heavily into using the messenger. Aside from that and checking events and birthdays, I stopped looking at the newsfeed in November 2015. I could practically feel some of the stress leave my body. I kind of hate social media.

O'Connor was fairly explicit about her fiction being Catholic.