In the book Offred is an everywoman just trying to survive moment to moment. Turning her into an Inglorious Basterd is just completely baffling. And the setting is an implausible fable that works when it’s vague and mysterious but doesn’t hold up to seven seasons of world building, not that the writers seem to care…

So THIS is where Nate Ruess has been for the last five years!

You’re absolutely correct. It’s been so long since the good films, that I glazed over the fact that his great movies are the ones with melancholy and bittersweetness (Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Batman Returns, etc). Despite the gray tones, Addams Family is just joyous. See, now you made me nervous that this is going…

Thanks, friend.

A reminder: the USA’s national suicide hotline is 1-800-273-8255. Speaking from experience, it can help. 

You sick son of a bitch...

I find it kind of funny

It’s kind of a weird alignment of factors - he became recognizable as a funny-looking but charismatic guy who made a lot of porn, and in the 90s/2000s he had a crossover presence in low-budget non-porn movies. Basically there’s a generation of men who grew up masturbating to him and then laughing transgressively when…

So he and I have something in common: I’m also kind of hung for a baby.

Btw I’m not trying to be argumentative, I just find this stuff really interesting. If you want to read someone who is a huge PKD nerd who’s better at expressing himself than me, doing a super deep dive into Dicks’s influences and problems from a respectful but not reverent point of view, and if you have a LOT of free…

If my comment came across as me saying that his work was all very mainstream, then I sure screwed up somehow, because that’d be silly. I’ve read nearly all of his work - *of course* some of it was way out there. But “outsider art” doesn’t just mean “stuff that’s way out there”; it’s a term you’d use for the work of…

I appreciate that, but word on the street is that if I’m not absolutely in love with it I am obligated to be fervently against it, so from this point forward it’s As and Fs, no inbetween. (Seriously, thank you for saying that, it’s very appreciated and a sign I’m doing what I set out to do.)

I cannot get wealthy friends to check unit pricing or indeed try to wrap their heads around it.

I don’t equate it low income with low intelligence, but the fact is that most people of all walks of life are bad at budgeting, simple math, and price psychology. It just so happens that low income people who never figure it out end up suffering for it, and people more solidly middle class or above generally don’t…

“Zany?” That sounds like a robot expression.

Well, the NZ government has been pretty awful about properly protecting workers on LOTR related projects, so I wouldn’t be surprised if some people are happy to see them go to the UK. But anyway I’m sure this is a cost-saving measure. Amazon realized it could only spend money like a drunken sailor on this show for so…

Reminder that the NZ government fucked its actors and contractors to keep The Hobbit in the country ages ago.

I mean, you say that like Indiana Jones isn’t also critiqued for being deeply racist.

Her music isn’t my cup of tea but I’m fine with her getting a happy ending to the shitstorm that the world unleashed on a 14 year old girl who had very little to do with the shittiness of that song other than singing it.

I think it was fine to dunk on the song, with all the goofy lyrics, and the silly video, but going after a teenage girl in such personal and mean spirited ways, I think that’s what they’re referring to. As for the music she’s doing now, I don’t know, I’m a gen x’r white dude, it’s not made for me, I wish all the best…