How about a great big “NO TRUCKS” sign? Detour trucks to Duke Street, which is literally one block over. They’d have to get on Duke anyway if they’re going to the freeway.

My issue with the Conjuring universe is it’s blatant franchise building. Instead of one great movie spawning a bunch of pitiful sequels capitalizing on its success - The Omen, The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror - we get eight mediocre, focus group generated movies designed to sell tickets for as long as viewers will…

I dated a 26 year old when I was 19, and we had a very similar conversation much later. The relationship was never creepy; and that was in the 1990s, not the ‘30s.

For the few people reading this site old enough to remember Seinfeld doing this exact bit like thirty years ago:

They did such a good job nailing an accent everyone always gets wrong, then throw this thing in the very first scene. It threw me too. I have plenty of friends who live in and grew up in Delco, and if this kid even had a car, it would probably be a 1997 Saturn with different color body panels.

The Week, a left leaning publication written by actual journalists, had a short story that put Harris’s complete comments into a nuanced perspective which sounds more like frustrated honesty than cruelty. “Do not come” was not Harris’s “original comment,” as Solis claims here. It came well within her speech.

I also find it cute that the AV Club will screenshot and quote entire Tweets and articles, sometimes longer than the content produced by the AV Club itself, but when it’s easier to craft the predetermined narrative by picking bits and pieces of someone’s statement, they just post bits and pieces. I thought her post…

The photos on their website don’t make the pizza look very appetizing. They remind me of the photos on the plastic back-lit menu boards behind the cash register at old pizza joints covered in about 40 years of grease. Also, that guy’s photoshopped eye is really bothering me. It seems like a lot of engineering to…

That shrill voice shouting “Do you have any children?” made my butt hole clench. 

I think you gave it far more analysis than necessary. The bottom line is - as a branch of the Armed Forces - having pop-culture iconography at a swearing in ceremony is offensive to the members of the other branches who signed up and fought, were wounded, or died. You wouldn’t see Bugs Bunny in a WWII uniform at a…

I find it hard to believe this is the entire story.

What’s “weird” about any of this? I was hoping for in-store carts pushed around by a bunch of Johnny 5s. The Frosty cart is just a corporate take on a food truck. It was only a matter of time. 

I’d say the marriage of crypto-mining and a car is a pretty weird one, but at some point in the past someone decided to combine the photographic technology of a telephone with the call-clarity of a camera. So who knows. It still doesn’t do anything to clear up Bitcoin for me. Best I can tell it’s Wall Street for…

Jane Dingh: “People born between 1981 and 1994 haven’t experienced a time share pitch. Let’s pitch people born between 1981 and 1994 a time share.”

Seriously. That’s exactly what I think when I see China’s copycat cars and architecture. I think the thought is it proves itself against or conquers “the best,” but all anyone outside that culture sees are companies, designers, and leaders incapable of coming up with anything unique.

The only reason I believe in Hell is because I have to believe people like Jeff Bezos will end up there. 

Apologies. I’m a gay man, and I exaggerate. Of course I’ve been excited about movies in the last 24 years. Although with regard to queer cinema, I’m usually pleasantly surprised after the fact because they tend to come out long before I hear of them.

That’s a well stated counterpoint. My comment was specifically about Artie and Cruella, and how Rife seemed to be expressing an opinion on behalf of gay men, rather than making it clear they were opinions from another perspective.

I wanted to post a clever comment but there’s nothing left to say. Thank you for being born, Jason Torchinsky. 

Is there no gay man at the AV Club who could write an article about queer casting in the only movie my gay ass has been excited about since 1997? I feel like I just ran into Lena Dunham in the bathroom at a gay bar. Artie could be the love child of Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather and he still wouldn’t be as…