Same with Bill Watterson!

Well, of course the legality of Gitmo shouldn't be based on the niceness of its prisoners or guards, but I can glean that just fine from nonfiction on the subject. In theory, personalizing the story is supposed to make us understand it on a different level than just the legal factual one, but I guess the characters…

Is there a writer out there whose publisher has stuck with him for years and given him whatever he wants in the belief that he'll write a bestseller any day now, but each super-hyped new book always ends up falling flat?

Well, to be fair, the producers thought she just had sociophobia. No one else on set remembered seeing a clown, in fact.

We'd all like to think that, wouldn't we? https://www.google.com/sear…

I'm more familiar with Coulterphobia.

Ugh, you people need to check your non-clown privilege. You have no idea what it feels like to get squashed into a tiny car with 28 other people, do you? I bet you've never even seen a seltzer bottle.

The kids in school who wouldn't shut up about how scary clowns are were
also the ones who thought that random references to monkeys, penguins,
and cheese were the height of humor. They also probably shopped at Hot Topic and had an imaginary friend named Bob.

Great clown Clyde D. Scope is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.

Detroit?

I think that's part of it, as dumb as it sounds. Naming a show after a whole group of people implies, on some level, that it represents that whole group of people, and people who don't agree with that view will resent that implication. I predict a lot of conservative agita about Dear White People for that same reason.

Eh, I don't know about that. It might be true about people of her age group and income level, but in general people who can spend lots of time doing this sort of navel-gazing are probably doing alright for themselves. And criticizing one's own generation as stupid and lazy and getting critical praise for it isn't…

We know that Dunham has clearly done something right because she's
clearly offended people both to her right and (probably) left.

I've heard a theory that Southern racism and Northern racism are fundamentally different, the former being based on paternalism and the latter based on fear. There's plenty of people in the North who voted for a black president but couldn't handle a black son-in-law. I haven't spent enough time in the South to know if…

I think that's more because sex sells, whether men or women are the central characters.

Lena Dunham is the Jay Cutler of writers. There's clearly some talent there, but they ruin it with their somewhat insufferable personalities and lack of a signature career achievement, which they could have had if they didn't shoot themselves in the foot in their first big moment in the spotlight (first season of Girls…

HERE COME THE MRAS LOL

Where are all these threads that are overrun by drive-by fedoras and neo-nazis? I've never seen one. My experience with those guys on other sites is that they wait a few days, lay down the manure at the end of the comment section, and declare victory without having actually debated anyone, because they're a bunch of…

I wouldn't worry about them: they're too laid up with seborrheic dermatitis to fight back: http://achewood.com/index.p…

Hey now, a show about people who live in the trendiest neighborhoods of New York and navigate complicated social networks while having a vaguely-artsy job that never interferes with their ability to just hang out with friends is a completely original concept, and I won't hear any different.