If J.K. Rowling had any legitimate points to make regarding the subject, she’s long since lost her footing in any debate. She’s both a perpetrator and a victim of the internet’s mob mentality. She’s tainted her own arguments with her célébrité and by doubling down with escalating conservatism.

AHS: NYC is not what I expected. With any Ryan Murphy vehicle, there are 27 ways it can go sideways and fall down a well, but two episodes in, it has the potential to be his most poignant season, and most politically charged project, yet.

I wish. I work paycheck to paycheck, and I’m still paying off student loans from the ‘90s. 

“I don’t want to derail the story, but like, fucking keys man man. What was wrong with a key?”

It’s funny you reference Abe Simpson yelling at a cloud because I came here looking for a fun little David Sedaris quip and got a 10+ paragraph history lesson on why it wasn’t funny straight from the “cranky Boomer over-explains joke, ruining it for everyone” toolkit. 

If objectification isn’t the point of being a gameshow model, then what is? She wasn’t ice skating up to the stage and vaulting over Howie Mandel. She was hired to look pretty and open briefcases. I suppose they could have just set the briefcases on stage or used an actor in a cat costume wearing a top hat and a…

Sissy Spacek, JoBeth Williams, Denise Crosby, but the truly offensive snub is Lin Shaye. I mean Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh might have popularized the mainstream screen queen genre, but Lin freakin’ Shaye is the definitive, lifelong scream queen. Also, please, Cassandra Peterson. This listicle is just downright…

That’s what I thought too. I’ll have to try to find the article. I remember reading about her audition process a long time ago, maybe back in the ‘90s, and it sounded really cute.

That’s certainly true of newly gentrified neighborhoods, but in many historically gay enclaves it wasn’t that poor people had been pushed out, it’s that the wealthy had fled to the suburbs and the gays and bohemians stayed behind or set up residence in urban spaces that straight families didn’t want anymore.

Whenever people hate on Woody’s in Philadelphia for being chock full of bachelorette parties, I always remind them if the bachelorettes didn’t have Woody’s go to go, they’d take over the bars we gays still go to.

All. Day. Long.

I was really surprised Watts wasn’t in there. I can’t think of a movie where she wasn’t a scream queen, which I think is a defining factor. Good call on Jennifer Jason Leigh and Laura Dern, two who’ve joined the legion of David Lynch muses. Although like you said, Leigh is more often the villain. Bridget Fonda was a…

“...there are only 21 lesbian bars in the entire country.”

“Ah Melanie, I see you made your famous tic-tac pie” -Chastity Pariah in Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

“Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting, or the protection of our planet and people?”

Thank God. For a moment I thought Carpool Andy Richter would be forced to rub elbows with me in restaurants I could actually afford.

Did I miss Naomi Watts? Not only is she a muse of David Lynch - a master of horror - she’s now involved with Ryan Murphy in The Watcher, two episodes of which were directed by David Lynch’s daughter, Jennifer. And while we’re on Lynch, I think Sheryl Lee and Grace Zabriskie earned a spot. No one screams quite like…

I always found it a bit ironic, but understandable, that so many people fondly remember their grandmothers when they rewatch Murder...She Wrote. I suppose Jessica Fletcher cast a certain eye of restrained judgment and curiosity that generations X through Z might view as grandmotherly, but her character was…

That’s a great take, and I never even thought about it. In fact, that’s probably a more realistic relationship dynamic than the one-note opposites-attract theme in most romcoms (I can’t wait to hate-watch Falling for Christmas). It definitely describes the relationship I’m in. We’re both outgoing and reserved in…

I assumed they were all gay, even when I was 8. Never mind the original run was being written by pot smoking hippies at The Island of Misfit Cartoons that was Hanna-Barbera. Daphne’s clearly a power lesbian, the top in her relationship with Velma. Shaggy and Scooby spend more time in each other’s arms than two…