Smithers, have Mae Whitman killed.

The window of, "Oh look, America's elected a dim-witted and jovial good ole' boy as President" was so short, it's hard to believe that so many of the tropes of that administration—Dubya is an idiot, Cheney is a conniving sociopath, etc.—were already in place. It's a little hard for me to look back fondly at the show,…

That fourth paragraph is pretty spot on—There seems to be a significant dearth of desire to actually inform and influence others. Much better to cluck your tongue and get some online kudos from your friends who already agree with you, right?

I've been pretty busy the past few months which has meant less moves/tv/music/etc. in general, but I've been watching Lady Dynamite the past few days. It is funny and everyone should watch it.

Jim Gilmore…isn't he Richard Gilmore's idiot, Roger Clinton-esque brother who isn't invited back to Connecticut anymore?

Considering his other actions, I think attributing that level of competent counter-intelligence from his campaign is a bit much.

What self-respecting aspiring pop-culture freelancer would miss a chance to live-tweet this incredible development?

This will be sure to get those MRAs seeing red.

I still advocate for him teaming up with Eliot Spitzer for a show in Vegas.

The Padres might be the most perfectly mediocre sports team if all time.

Yeah, but Minneapolis seems like a reasonably nice place to live. Part of Cleveland's oeuvre is being a rustbelt hellhole that needs a sports championship to maintain a modicum of sanity.

Arrested Development

This is a great way to address these issues, coming in right behind…every other possible action one could conceive of.

Isn't that an essential part of growing up, though? Finding something that establishes your identity as slightly separate from that of your peers?

Man, I can't wait for Garry-Sorry, Mr. Marshall—producing the inevitable romantic-ensemble-comedy-focused-around-9/11 movie sometime around 2018…

Fuck…with all these deaths, I'm thinking now might be the time to take up nihilism as a defense mechanism.

Arctic Monkeys — Mardy Bum
Team Spirit — Teenage Heart
Pixies — Debaser
The Strokes — Between Love & Hate
The Rolling Stones — Under My Thumb
Hole — Malibu

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That kind of loops back to her earlier conversation with Jenny Slate, about the need to see how others view oneself. She wasn't dropped and forgotten, in fact it is quite the opposite.

I saw Everybody Wants Some!!. I enjoyed it a lot, and it is nothing like the previews. It's really funny, and of course there is no one better than Linklater. I'll also note that I saw it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with an audience that would normally be pretty opposed to celebrating the lifestyle of 80's Texas…