There’s still a soft spot in my heart for the Soul Calibur series but yeah, NetherRealm Studios is really killing it lately. When’s the last time an acquisition by WB did a property some good?

Ok but now they need to give the actually hilarious Erinn Hayes her own series called Erinn Can Live

I recommend listening to the “My Stepmom Is An Alien” episode of the How Did This Get Made podcast. It’s the funniest I’ve ever found her — doesn’t hurt that it’s one of the best episodes of that podcast in recent years.

The Mortal Kombat series is really the best it’s ever been in terms of game quality at this point. It’s mechanics may be a little below those of the most fluid fighting series’ out there, but the margin is small with the release of MKX, and no fighting series can hold a candle to its world-building and storylines…

Huh, I’ve always thought 10 Mile Stereo is one of their best songs. I think its build is really easy to get swept up in. And its chorus is one of the best examples of one of the things Beach House is known for — lyrics that are vague but still manage to evoke a particular feeling really well. I also think Real Love is…

I think this Beach House album is legitimately going to be the album of the year. They’ve released four songs so far (most recently Black Car) and they’ve all been great while really standing out from their previous albums.

Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars both kind of missed expectations for me, but I…

Don’t forget all his fans

They liked their gays flamboyant, totally sexless, and without any complaints or demands about how society treats them. That’s no slam on Lynde, who is an icon, but that’s why he and Liberace and Elton were all acceptable in the 60s-70s-80s.

And as I added Elton and Liberace to that list, it also occurs to me that they…

No nonono why did I play that. I’m a huge true crime fan, have read lots of true crime books, listen to lots of true crime podcasts, etc. I’m not typically sensitive to this stuff.

The EAR/GSK phone calls are the only thing I’ve ever said “nope” to and just stopped listening. I still haven’t listened to the Casefile…

She looked like a boy in the braid bikini. And the green hula skirt looked cheeeap. Fun, sure, but not good. Astronaut look was fine but just so obvious, pink look was fine too. But two fines and a boy-in-a-bikini look just shouldn’t have been enough to put her in the top.

Nothing against Cracker, I’d love to see her…

Not a tinfoil hat — seriously, go look at Mayhem’s three looks. Producers wrung all the storyline they wanted out of Mayhem in the first episode and have just been ignoring her since. She did really well in the group lip sync (better than Vixen, who won for drama and just being team captain, though I still wouldn’t…

I enjoyed this too much

I need a St. Vincent-Janelle Monae collaboration to happen so the heirs to Bowie and Prince can blow our minds together

Fuck yes. That’s all.

Monique’s runway wasn’t great but it really wasn’t that bad. And she and Eureka were the two people who seemed to really know what those sorts of trash talk shows in the 90s were like and channeled them well, that deserved the top placement. Plus, producers have been screwing Monique over all season so the least they…

Mayhem was honestly not that bad. She wasn’t standout but she wasn’t as bad as Vixen, Asia, or Monet, so her bottom placement is suspect. They clearly wanted her gone (look how they robbed her of a top placement last week too) after her storyline wrapped up nicely in the first episode.

As for her lines, the book line…

Her entire schtick was the outfit (which again, given the pickle-centric story, must have been provided by production for the role, just like they provided the baby gear and cactus and such). She didn’t do anything more with the role, didn’t command the stage — her entire thing was “I’m a doctor in a pickle costume,”…

Oh c’mon, Cracker’s looks were pretty bad last week. That hair bikini looked terrible, and the astronaut look was the least creative of the Mars looks. Mayhem should have been in the top 3 in her place — her summer look was great if unoriginal, her winter look was everything, and her Mars look was 70s Martian Grace…

This is the second week in a row where Cracker received a top placement that she didn’t earn. Last week it should have been Mayhem (or a couple of other queens), this week it could have been Kameron or Blair. Most of the comedy from Cracker’s scene came from the pickle costume that she was undoubtedly provided by…

She’ll always be the best or one of the best parts of anything she’s in. She’s such an underrated talent with IMMENSE screen presence.