I think you’re being a tad hyperbolic here.

I’m assuming the half of the country hoping for thought policing you’re talking about is the one who’s leader thinks SNL making fun of the president is probably illegal and frequently attacks the abstract concept of journalism outside of state-approved propaganda.

I was going to point out that when you google “Ted Nugent eating stew” you get no results, and I was going to point out that you proved Carolla’s point, and then sign off with “Sincerely, the dumbest man on earth”.

I accidentally watched ep 1 of that today. I thought it was pretty funny

Maps to the Stars is so bad. It’s difficult to believe that Cronenberg directed it. It’s obvious and unfunny. The only compliment is that the actors all pretty much throw themselves into the material, especially Julianne Moore. But they all deserved better material.

The reality bending, though, was used in that first scene to establish the rules of an “architect” and demonstrate that even a skilled one would need to be careful lest the dreamer reject them.

The thing with Nolan is he wants to make standard genre films with a fun conceptual twist, but he often underestimates how much more fun the conceptual twist is than the genre film he’s trying to spice up. It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that Inception isn’t a movie about dream shenanigans, it’s a…

Any of those mondegreens make more sense than comparing Africa's tallest mountain to another, much shorter mountain.

Board game “shelfies” are a thing.

As everyone here is saying, Hemingway can be excellent, particularly In Our Time. A lot of fanboys get off on the whole papa bear/ bullfighter image, though, and those people are better left undated.

In the early days of social media — after Myspace had gotten played out, but before Facebook — I had the idea of posting a novel in the form of entries. Which is to say, I looked for a novel written as a diary. And the one at hand was Young Werther. So I changed my username to Werther, used the image of the character…

Somehow the biggest dude red flag of all hasn’t been mentioned yet: Chuck Palahniuk. It’s like literature specially written for men who score a shade too high on the psychopath test. I’ve never read him, but I’ve never met a big Chuckie Fightclub fan I didn’t find sort of creepy.

Who said I watched the show?

a gaudy display of wealth

If there’s no world-ending light beam and an army of interchangeable CGI shadow figures that can be destroyed by killing a single person, I’m out!

I’m tempted to set up a GoFundMe titled “Bannon’s Bailout Fund” with the username Scammy McScampants and target all the MAGAs on Facebook with it. Maybe I’ll make enough to buy the yacht he was arrested on

It can be...two things.

I worked on that first season as a logger / online vision mixer, and it was undoubtedly the best summer of my life, at first no one knew if anyone would watch such a thing and then it exploded, and I couldn’t go anywhere without hearing people talking about it. It was a huge amount of fun behind the scenes too as we…