I remember those years differently. Abnett & Lanning’s comics were also pretty niche stuff in the fandom at the time. People were way too busy humping Civil War and what success it had was mostly due to a hardcore group of fans who REALLY loved Marvel’s cosmic stuff and was glad to see it coming back in any form after…

Last year had Black Panther, Aquaman, and Spider-Verse, so it’s gotta be a top three year by any reckoning, and depending on how you feel about Venom, Deadpool 2, Incredibles 2, or Infinity War, it might be best ever.

The Pistons are probably going to miss the playoffs, so it seems like the powers that be would rather not pay a premium for it. I get it, but that they were even in the position of overpaying for this collection of mediocrity demonstrates that everyone in the organization should be fired.

This might be ascribing more to Belichick than he deserves, but I felt like he wanted to keep it low-scoring so the Rams wouldn’t feel like they needed to start a shootout. After last year, I think he figured it would be better off keeping a high-scoring team thinking conservatively until there wasn’t enough time for…

Also, quarterbacks brains tend not to get scrambled too much, if at all the way the rules are going. And if you want to see how lucrative baseball is, ask how free agents are doing with their one-to-two year at a time deals when they hit free agency at the age of 30. Harper’s gonna end up playing for the fucking…

The Rams have Aaron Donald and Ndamukong Suh. The Bears turned their entire division upside down by getting Khalil Mack. Seattle and Dallas both looked doomed until their defenses gelled. And The Chargers were contenders when their defense played well, and hopeless chumps when it fell apart. Mahomes aside, I don’t…

This has been a rough season to sit through, even while it’s great to see Blake succeed, it makes none of this easier to watch.

Didn’t a bunch of major leaguers cross picket lines during the playoffs so they wouldn’t have to change hotel reservations? Fuck these scabs.

Greenwell, you cannot leap onto a team right after they got to the super bowl. If you’re going to switch allegiances as an adult, the least you can do is sign on to a bad team like the Jets.

Anthony is the name of the baby that Helen saves from Candyman in the original, so there might be a direct connection there.

ratto go on deadcast

dang jim crane got a burner account

Given how good the players are and how young they are, the people with money are either idiots (“they’re not going to increase wins enough to justify their salary”), or greedy (“they will not make me enough money to pay them what they’re worth in expected wins”). Either way, humping a billionaires leg is gross and you…

Which is why it was nominated but won’t win. 

And you could apply that thought to any of the characters. It assumed you knew who pretty much everyone was and got the show on the road, which was what it HAD to do in order to work. Christ, can you imagine the absolute slog this would have been getting stragglers caught up on who was who?

Jay Rock’s new Album redemption was literally all bangers, my favorite album of the year by a damn sight.

Best thing I read this year was Giovanni’s Room, by James Baldwin. Many of his books deal with ambiguous sexuality and how that changes depending on where you are in life, and this one just really put it beautifully. Recommend if you like stories about young, broke men in Paris trying to figure out what they’re…

Stick around to the end for a weirdly pointed and awkward PSA about drinking and driving!

If your career depends on the benevolence of a video game company, probably you should be unionizing or going to a trade school in your free time.

We hunt animals, we traffic them, we herd them, we breed them, we invade their territory and pay the price, but we don’t go to war with them. If that was the case, we’d have lost that war a long time ago.”