Who is monopolizing the market? Bear is monopolizing the market! How can that be?

I didn’t know that about Leroux — that’s fascinating, thanks! It’s so interesting though, because more recent reevaluations of Phantom have mentioned how Leroux’s portrayal of the Turk were somwhat progressive in that they didn’t fall into the typical stereotyping and orientalism of the time, despite the pulpy…

I mean, you say that like Indiana Jones isn’t also critiqued for being deeply racist.
That said, those books are an interesting portrait of an author reevaluating their values is time went on, often for the better. I’d let my kid read them, with the caveat that we talk about what’s going on and think about that…

You weren’t always expected to write or play your own stuff in rock though. That notion only really came around in the mid 60s, a decade into rock’s existence.
I agree that artistic validity shouldn’t be given to pop as a matter of fact, but pop is a particularly porous category of music to begin with, as the label has…

It’s sort of a zeitgeist phrase - a play on a meme about anime being a mistake from a couple years ago.

But yeah, agreed. A net loss for society, but unfortunately also a necessary reaction to bloated rockism (which was just poptimism focussed on the tastes of . . . well, we all know who).

Not to denigrate you here, Sam Barsanti. Mr. Barsanti? This is good. Just miss the hater.

Shit, Where’s Amelie Gillette to hate on this when we need her? Really miss her perspective.

Why does Chucky look like Eric Stoltz in “Mask”?

That’s really a problem with bulling as a term in general. It can range in so many ways from social ostracism to, well, this truly perverse abuse, to the extent using it as an overarching label kind of becomes an obstruction to dealing with the particulars of the problems involved.

I agree for the most part, but Temporary Secretary is a fucking bop.

Him and Paul Giamatti (who would have upped the sadsack factor)

I’d be especially pissed that they used the same face for me and Wayne Knight. Sure they’re both fat short white guys, but they have entirely different vibes!

It’s sometimes necessary

I wonder if anyone ever gave a shit about Imelda Marcos’ creative pursuits.

Ken Burns’ work was a lot of people’s first deep dive into the civil war, but it’s been pretty thoroughly critiqued for irresponsibly downplaying the role of slavery in the confederacy’s motivations.

Yeah, that kind of conflation is the same shit the authors here would criticize in other media sources. Guess it just goes to show how much of a gringo news source it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They had to keep a hot white guy for Kaling to lust over to keep things on brand.

The AV Club: “You guys are getting snotty about ___ now?”

I mean, sure it’s ethnic cleansing, but not *genocide* ethnic cleansing, right? That’d be too much.

This is so legit! They sound a little like Butt Trumpet right?