Yeah, but even with Godzilla there’s a reason he happens, a cause and effect relationship. We don’t get any of that with him, no understanding of why or why now or what any of the prophecies have to do with anything.

The Night King’s theme honestly just felt like an echo of The Light of the Seven. 

I think you hit the nail on the head. Yes it’s arch and ironic, but it’s also an artist (in fact, an ensemble of them) doing something they’re jazzed about and I think that’s what makes the difference between good popular culture and dreck. Weird Al is a similar example.

Remember that time when a classic film franchise was rebooted and the result was actually good? No? Me neither.

The only thing I don’t like about the dramatic reboot is the repeated portrayal of Carlton as trying to be white. It’s thematically unnecessary and doesn’t really give him much in the way of dramatic motivation. A better idea is that he’s cut off from mainstream black cultural identifiers and is mostly concerned with…

That’s a really good response to a really, really stupid question. 

I’ve never made the cut to get on Jeopardy, but I’ve concluded that if you aren’t confident enough to make it a true Daily Double every time, you’ve picked the wrong category. 

Who gives a shit? 

Not every Mormon is a joyless creep. A great many, possibly the majority, are pretty normal people.

Did Gettleman forget he was picking for his own Giants, and not Kliff Kingsbury’s Kardinals?

So is there a guy at the Cardinals headquarters whose full-time job is to photoshop up graphics like that at all hours of the day or night? Or is there just ready made template for “inspirational coach’s quotes” that a hapless social media intern just has to generate?

Bougie doesn’t mean liking nice wine or haute cuisine or dressing nicely or “talking proper” (FOH with that noise). Bougie means thinking you’re better than other people because of those things. If you aren’t judgement, you aren’t bougie.

I’d love a histogram breakdown of numbers of officers and how many offenses. We’re constantly told via the media that this or that cop is basically a good person but got carried away or made a single mistake and we shouldn’t hang him out to dry for that, but I bet the data actually shows that a majority of cases are…

Why aren’t they charging her with indecent exposure or anything like that? If a black man showed his literal ass to some white folks he’d be on the sex offender registry before you can say “public defender”.

I don’t think it’s a bad call to make that a major penalty, I just think it was the wrong guy. What caused the injury wasn’t Eakins’ cross-check but Stastny skating up behind Pavelski and using his leg and his hand to make sure Pavelski loses his footing completely and sends his head toward the ice. 

This is possibly the most Deadspin article to show up in a long while.

No.

Nah, they’ll still get Tony nominations. Between the “separate the art from artist” people, the jerks who’ll support it just for the controversy, and the usual show-biz perverts, it’ll get a lot of votes.

Anything is fine until they do it to straight white conservatives.

1. If you’re so unable to focus on a single TV screen for the duration of show, movie, or sporting even, seek help.