lol come to los angeles. when u say community you mean old and/or conservative people not young or progressive people… 

This is my final feature for The A.V. Club. Thank you all for reading my music writing. It's been such a joy to give the music section the love it deserves.

The Bechdel Test was always more useful in the aggregate than as a critique of individual works, which is the opposite of how it’s usually deployed. It’s possible to make a good movie about just men, or just women, so often it’s easy enough to defend any given film. It’s only really damning when you realize that most…

Hey folks. I just wanted to drop in and say thank you to everyone here for all the kind words, and also for reading what I’ve written at The A.V. Club these past nine years. I know I wasn’t always the most consistent presence in the comments, even before the Kinja transition, but I dipped in fairly regularly, and for…

I will say, while I appreciate any lack of histrionics over the Future of the A.V. Club As We Know It!! (and imagine it has served the old-new guard well, ha), I would point out that past incidences of major exodus were either because a bunch of writers left together to start The Dissolve, or a few instances where…

at least in the days before Kinja decimated the site’s robust commenting culture

Fwiw, I’m sorry to see you go. It does feel like the passing of an Old Guard (that I, like many around here, am watching with trepidation) and we’re losing even more tried and true talent like yourself. And I can understand where you’re coming from with the grading thing; if you only give an A sparingly, then that A…

What keeps anyone from “minting” an NFT of a copyrighted work? Theoretically, copyright laws and the threat of lawsuits. Or DMCA takedowns.

I am so sad this column is coming to an end. I love that it’s a serious analysis of a lot of films which often get overlooked or treated with disdain, and there’s been a good mix of classics I’ve seen, underrated gems I want to see, and some really terrible pieces of work. Another one bites the dust...

Have you considered that maybe the folkloric depictions of goblins are, themselves, laden with anti-Semitic tropes? 

The bigger issue is that goblins in much of genre literature pretty much ARE Jews, and we pretend they aren’t, or are so blinkered about it that we don’t even think we have to.

That’s Stewart’s point. Look at goblins in Warcraft, or the Ferengi in Star Trek. THAT’S how you get billions of people saying “they’re just…

I’ll be frank, friend. It’s easier to say that now, and it doesn’t really get to the larger point: that while the TERF stuff isn’t in the content of the book, the goblin/Jewish stuff is, and is frankly in a LOT of myth/fantasy/sci-fi stuff, and we ALL just take it for granted, and literally billions of people don’t…

celebrating a half-remembered, half-imagined era when the owners of publications actually gave two shits about their writers and the subjects they wrote about.

Her works provided me, a young, gay kid growing up in Oklahoma in the late 90s, with many, many hours of escapism and enjoyment. May she rest in peace.

Years ago, I was moving from one crazy, dangerous neighborhood to another slightly less dangerous, yet equally crazy neighborhood, when a mentally ill homeless person randomly tried to cut me with a box cutter. Just one of those things. One second he was trudging by silently, the next he was coming at me, also silently…

Years ago I loaned my signed copy of The Mummy, or Rameses The Damned to a friend, who dropped it into a sink full of water. She bought a copy and sent it to Rice with a heartfelt letter explaining the situation. Rice signed the new copy with a personalized message, and sent it back to me. The friend fessed up, I told…

One thing missed in this article that is a big deal in the longform: they consistently served her husband things he was allergic to. Another guest with food allergies was just not served at all for a few courses. The author noted on twitter that they had informed the restaurant of the allergies ahead of time and the…

The NY Times article linked in the story at least heavily implies that the Fiorattis probably aren’t entirely innocent in all this. They may not have stolen the mosaic, but they likely knew it wasn’t procured through legitimate means. When you look at some of the things in that NY Times article, along with some other…

What a heartwarming story about the rich looting cultural treasures in the aftermath of devastating conflict.

She had, like, 3 or so songs mentioning her exes on her last 4 albums (not counting the rerecorded ones cause they were written years ago). She’s been in the same relationship for the last 5 years and most of her last two albums weren’t even based on her life.