My god, you fucking people.

What status quo are you talking about? What’s the status quo HERE?

Finally, he’s been called out! Now I can rest easy. Thank you to those who police pre-Jeopardy hand gestures, as well as those who rate/validate social media apologies. Thoughts and prayers, as always, to those devastated by this horrific situation, but we can finally move forward as a nation.

His job as a deputy district attorney doesn’t allow him to express his racism on the job. Or maybe it does.

Honestly, I had the same response. It kinda seems like maybe St. Vincent & Madden just didn’t hit it off, and so the interview ended up just striking the tone of awkward small talk with a nosy co-worker.

Yeah this is kind of my takeaway too - even the excerpt used in this article is super weird. It seems like the author was trying to bait her into giving quotes about political issues she didn’t really want to comment on and wouldn’t take no for an answer. I get that it’s your job as a journalist to get juicy quotes…

read the whole thing and well that was a fucking awkward and weird interview. to me it seemed like the interviewer kept poking at her about her dad. i understand the topic of him is in the album but i don’t know how much. if it’s just one song why ask her so many questions about him? he wasn’t in her life and they’re…

oh come on, you know that’s not how they do it.  Michael Caine in Cider House Rules?  Jeff Bridges in that dumb country music movie instead of the next year in True Grit, Denzel in Training Day?  The list goes on.  They nearly always give that award cumulatively and nearly never give Best Supporting Actress…

Sometimes I wonder how Donald honest-to-God Trump managed to win a U.S. election (and then nearly another). Then I read something like this, which captures our nation’s current Outrage Factory of a mindset in an accurate but disappointing way, and it all adds up. Yeesh.

It’s supposed to be about the specific performance but in the Academy’s history it rarely is. That voters chose to stick closely to the criteria in this instance is somewhat questionable given the circumstances, and definitely unexpected. 

A perfectly reasonable argument. Although, I’d argue that posthumous wins have usually been deserved--be it Peter Finch, Conrad L. Hall, Heath Ledger, probably someone else I’m forgetting. 

Because his performance is no less great no matter who says so. Besides, it’s clear that the industry was at least open to sending off a young star with what they consider to be a really nice show of recognition. It’s just a trophy. It’s ultimately not that big of a deal in and of itself.

I mean, it’s not a story about being a white man, it’s about the ravages of Alzheimer’s. If anything, having a privileged old white guy enhances the movie’s themes--no one is safe from it.

Kind of two minds on this, on the one hand, from everything described that happened to Kesha, the guy is a piece of shit and fuck him.

“in its place is a mesmerizing portrait of a man out of his depth—a situation in which Nicholson rarely found himself, either on screen or off”

“I’m all up for silliness and what not, but that was extreme” feels like a very New England sentiment. 

“Walking into the yogurt shop was an act of bravery in and of itself, and so to be inundated with foods labeled for those with food sensitivities felt like an attack.”

Yes, these all seem like harrowing, life-shattering experiences.

No, it appears you’re spot-on. He didn’t like the catchphrase a WB studio hack once suggested, so now WB isn't permitted to celebrate yesterday’s verdict.

Nobody accepts these apologies, they critique them as artwork.