All this.

You are conflating two distinctly different issues, Alex. And you seem to realize this very clearly, but it doesn’t seem to stop you from writing an article of ill consideration.

Slightly on topic. I finally read Clive Barker’s new-ish Pinhead novel Scarlet Gospels during quarantine. It was awful.   

I could see Bill Hader or Fred Armisen as Goofy. David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck’s been great.

Or, the winning move is to simply not peddle in stupid bullshit like anti-vax material during a pandemic. 

Or they learned from that mistake? (Stop laughing so hard!)

I get that some people might not be quite as nuanced in recognizing everything on a TV show is fiction, but the broad strokes are also valid. Charles did cheat on Diana with Camilla. According to reports, Charles was emotionally abusive to Diana if not physically abusive. To me the more fictionalized episode was the…

The real Thatcher wasn’t this hot, young people.

The next Troma film is an interpretation of The Tempest that takes on corporate opioid production.

RP1 was a weird book as it was written for a 14 year old who has the memories of a 45 year old. I was in the later age group and wondered how a YA target market could get any pleasure from the references from my childhood. Meanwhile I’m struggling with Cline’s lack of basic writing skills.

I also find it very baffling how someone like Cline can spend years of his life, writing two novels, on 1980s culture, a subject which he presumably is very interested in, yet has nothing to say about the ways in which popular culture interacts, influences, and is influenced by politics, economics, and society. He…

I heard there weren’t any advance copies sent to critics, which was maybe the first clue this was going to be a steaming turd. Not that I had any expectations. Cline is a terrible, juvenile writer. And I can’t figure out who these books are for. I’m Generation X—Cline is just a year and change older than me—and I…

Nope Jimmy Carter is still the greatest monster. 

I don’t know if I’d call it “activist bullying,” but when social media democratizes speech, it gives us the illusion that everyone has to have an opinion on everything and that everyone’s opinion matters equally.

That’s always what I don’t understand. Even if you think the reaction is overblown and your critics are really crybaby idiots, how could you not see that saying “I think the reaction is overblown and my critics are crybaby idiots” is not the move here? This happens every time and people always just step on the rake…

pretty bold of you to claim Dean Cain has a job of entertaining people

Inflation. Back then an hour only cost 38 minutes.

Do you know what meanwhile means?

Well played.

Hey, if the blue smurfs of Avatar can fuck with their hair, who knows how these people long ago in a galaxy far away did it?