An "unpaid promotional tour" is such a strange concept. Is this a signed band's version of doing it for the exposure?

My favourite scenes are the one at the beginning where the substitute somersaults alongside a car in order to break a guy's arm and the one where he beats down the guys who ambush him in the bathroom and the school custodian subsequently steps out of a secret panel in the wall. Man, that movie just kept on giving.

The bugs are getting comical. After a few attempts at opening this thread from the Newswire itself led unerringly to the Mr. Robot article, I came by way of Disqus itself. By that point, I had more desire to point out the bug than to say anything about the article. Roll-outs are just the best times imaginable.

I don't really want to guess why other people do what they do. For my part, I didn't find the arguments that Iron Fist absolutely had to be played by a white guy all that convincing (he's supposed to be privileged, sure, but privilege is a nuanced concept with lots of possibilities), so I figured that they'd be smart…

I keep thinking that few would care if they had got someone really good to play him. As it is, it's hard not to note that race-blind casting would probably not have resulted in this particular guy playing a martial artist. Is it so damned hard to have martial artist characters be played by people who know how to…

What possible excuse is there to not have good fighting in a show or movie about fighting these days? There are incredible martial arts movies made every year. There's an obvious pool of talent out there; why not tap it?

I don't know these characters, so I wondered if abnormal stretching was something she could do? I also don't get why she wouldn't be punching on the same side as her leading leg. Wouldn't the twisting sap some of the potential kinetic energy? I thought the idea with that sort of punch was to line up as much force…

That was my first thought when I heard about Iron Fist: if you're going to cast a white guy as this super martial artist, why not cast Scott Adkins? Then you can honestly say that you went with someone well-suited for the role. I was then informed that Scott Adkins had an upcoming MCU role, so I understood why they…

The first sequel is also pretty great. It's Treat Williams in the main role. He teaches a class about yo-yos by beating up a student and fends off a team of hitmen in a high school bathroom during school hours.

I somehow just saw Brain Candy this week. What a great movie! I guess I can see why it wasn't popular, but it was good.

I saw the resizing button pretty quickly, so I wasn't too annoyed by the tiny side window. Right now, the only annoyance for me is the infinite scrolling style for the articles. I keep reflexively scrolling as if to the bottom of the page and ending up on something different. I've never liked the infinite scrolling…

Damn, what a story. I hadn't heard that. That's like a much (much, much, much) milder Pillowman childhood.

Did they forget to light the Rabin Signal?

- Tarkovsky's Former AD right after a Xanax

I'm envisioning a variation on the classic box-propped-up-by-stick trap.

It was always pretty clear to me, as a kid, that we came first over my mother's partners. I wonder now if that's why my siblings get so hostile towards her being unavailable due to having a life outside of them. We're all well into adulthood now, but some dependence lingers.

I have a really tricky relationship with my mother. We're very close, and always have been, to a degree that various psychologists found concerning when I was a kid. My father was physically abusive to us and she's the only person I've really considered a parent within my conscious life. Her long-term partners, I…

I have two older brothers. One is estranged. The other is a bit of a character. He's been to prison multiple times, probably cost my mother her job when he punched someone at her work function, left us without postal service for a while because he got in a fight with a mail carrier somehow, cost his girlfriend her…

It gets to the point where two songs that sound different from each other get stuck into two different arbitrary sub-sub-subgenres. What's the point? Who actually enjoys doing this?

It's odd how abrasive a lot of music sounds today. Most stuff intended to be broadly appealing gets mastered to pop out of radios and phones. It kind of gives me a headache. I don't know if that's age or the infamous loudness war between producers.