"What I want to do is I want to fucking kill all the leakers and I want to get the President's agenda back on track so we can succeed for the American people."
— Anthony Scaramucci, actual human being and not a character in a Grand Theft Auto game

Oh, Powerthirteen. You blowhard!

POI also had some of the best explosions in television history, but I dunno if that's relevant here.

I'm going to choose to believe this means season 2 will be a low-key, heavily improvised mumblecore dramedy with virtually no espionage elements at all. Sounds fun.

Uh-ahh-ahhhhh!

Oh, absolutely. I was poking fun at the "ehhh whatever" response, not the idea that the average chick-flick is any more or less realistic than, say, Armageddon. I have a genuine irony-free soft spot for romantic comedies, and I'm only mildly embarrassed about it! I once rewatched Notting Hill alone, just for the hell…

"I do think that’s a stigma that the romance world—in books and in television—has. Because they’re so unrealistic. But are they?"

"WE ARE THINGS"

That makes a lot of sense in the context of the Cars series' overarching subtextual question: WHO MADE WHO?

And once again, I wish for a resurgence of the 80s/90s trend of animated kid-centric TV adaptations based on R-rated movies wildly inappropriate for children. Wasn't there a Robocop cartoon? And if so, did he shoot the dicks off any rapists in it?

My favorite thing about the old "Corona has piss in it!" chain emails is how they said the average bottle contained such an unrealistically huge percentage of urine that it would've needed to be incorporated into the manufacturing process. Like, some guys standing at the end of the assembly line, carefully pissing…

Nebraska > Darkness on the Edge of Town > Born to Run > everything else

I actually kind of like the name "Crooked Hillary". It's got a fun Dick Tracy vibe to it.

It makes a certain kind of sense considering that Ellis built his entire bibliography on gawking in horror and revulsion at the wealthy elite, but in 30+ years never really managed to make a point beyond "Jeepers, these people are gross!"

That's the thing, though - we could be looking at the near-total collapse of a basic network model that has existed for generations, on a timetable that's clearly a hell of a lot more accelerated than the cable industry seems to have prepared for. The only comparison is the creation of that model in the first place,…

Considering the crux of this issue is how poorly cable companies have adapted to changing entertainment markets, I kinda like the irony at work here.

*camera spasms toward completely empty and unremarkable corner of the room, film crew shrieks in terror like a portal to Hell just opened up*

According to my girlfriend (a rabid fan of Wallace) he actually went on record saying some positive things about Ellis' work at least once or twice. So the whole thing makes Ellis look even worse than it would initially seem - and, considering how he's an infamously arrogant washout pissing all over a hugely…

It's going to get even worse if there's any truth to the projections on how few millennials watch sports programming. I don't think there's anything in television history that can compare to what might happen over the next decade or two.

Who doesn't love a good pet haunting yarn?