you’re arguing ‘why bother making it?’ about something that’s clearly meant as an artistic experiment. if it doesn’t ‘engage with people’, then ‘why bother?’

i called that conservative formalism. Which it is. 

you can’t even spell the word ‘indie’ 

that might’ve been clever in 2005 or so. 

you think a working indie musician is ‘rich’? imagine being so deluded about how artists live in the modern US. 

you just proved the insult’s point. well done.

speaking of conservative formalism...

Remember the willful scandalized naivety and you’ll do fine: people are either fully good or fully evil, all morality is black and white, and intent/context/nuance/grey areas don’t exist. Depiction is always to be taken as endorsement. You’re either in or out. And don’t dare raise objection or you’ll have outed…

You aren’t allowed to criticize the collateral damage of the WokeLeft’s penchant for hysterical censorship and moral purity. They will ad hominem and strawman you to death and brand you a pariah.

Super healthy movement, one that reacts as such when it has their methodology questioned. Funny, I remember getting into…

false equivalency. 

Your last paragraph is one big strawman. They said nothing of the kind on either count.

I imagine they’re a member of the book-buying public, which makes their opinion valid, as anyone’s opinions are. 

‘latchkey kids’ are treated as if they’ve fallen prey to predators in vans these days, though. i was trusted to stay home alone from like eleven yrs old onward, and i thought it was a great compliment re: my responsibility and maturity. it was a sign i could be trusted.

now, i imagine you could lose custody of your…

That’s a rad hoodie for sure.

This is great news, honestly. There was a harrowing investigative piece from Vice recently about the tendency of the current trucks to explode, and the USPS stifling anyone looking too deeply into the circumstances. So this is a positive step towards making their drivers, and our mail, a little safer.

You’re so wrong it almost hurts to look at what you wrote.

If no one else has noted it, the first sequel of the original Wrong Turn is by miles the best in the series.

ET isn’t scary, just fucking sappy and overrated and cliched.

no, he’s just a failed cocaine smuggler and right-wing whiny pissbaby

As someone who’s seen almost every slasher film made between the mid-70s and the early 90s, and who can get very boring and academic on the subject, I will always point to the original Friday The 13th as the most perfect embodiment of the slasher film. It isn’t the BEST slasher film, but if you needed to pick one lone…

Casting first stones won’t save you when the finger eventually comes ‘round to point in your direction. Know that much.