I remember just before Adore came out, MTV Europe had them doing a preview show in London, the audience of which was entirely competition winners, with the Adore-only set being broadcast live, and a whole day of videos by Pumpkins and related bands interspersed with interviews with fans spending hours queueing outside…

I actually really enjoyed the Zwan record, and the time I saw them in concert was the only time I've seen Billy Corgan in concert where he didn't just squander the goodwill of the crowd until everyone's just struggling to react by the end of it.

Cornell did always come across like a dude who figures the only reason not to own a sports car the colour of a wasp is if you're unable to afford one

The little laugh when she says "you realise you're being insufferable right now" brought up so many memories of fights at crucial points in relationships, where it's 2am and both of you are feeling a little goofy from going over this crap for so long, but also that you're not sure whether you're still going to be…

I love that, to Princess Carolyn, Catwoman is the sort of sweet gig Bojack should be chasing next

Getting kids into vaping, the "computer in every home" dream of the early 21st century

I've got nothing against joke delivery shows like Archer, but those two episodes changed it from that into what has legitimately become one of my all-time favourite shows

She's very tied in with my reassessing the show. There are definitely some great episodes in early S1, although without the context of the emotional depth that came later they still seemed like smart goof-offs (Todd's rock opera, the first Sarah Lynne episode) on first watch.

It's kind of heartbreaking because I'm sure she imagines herself as the kind of person who'd help other talented women up to the next level after being trapped down there for so long herself. But when push comes to shove competent PAs are hard to find, so maybe next year, when things are less hectic.

I guess a thing about wealth and the privilege of inherited status is that Vigor is a decades-established agency with a deep bench, so he really doesn't need to do that much for things to go fine, at least for a while.

Princess Carolyn's my favourite too and that stung

Hah, thanks. You have been killing it this whole comment section, incidentally

Getting super angry about something because he wasn't included and losing interest the second someone is excited about him being involved is basically Bojack's whole deal.

It's true that a show that feels comfortable making as many jokes about minutiae of the New Yorker as Bojack is probably not going to ruffle many feathers in its audience by advocating reproductive rights.

The idea of "another administration more than happy not just to compromise with the Republicans but, to collaborate with them" as a pejorative says a lot about the extent of ideological gridlock in a lot of countries right now, where the idea of sitting down with the opposition is as contentious as that.

Barsanti is a Grantland alum and they always had a soft spot for kinda-ironic kinda-not celebrity stuff. I'd be surprised if there were any strong editorial guidelines for viable newswire article candidates, so maybe a man just saw a funny rock angle on a Taylor Swift gossip column story and ran with it.

Dan Harmon has talked about how the network made him employ more
women in the writer's room for Community than he'd originally intended, and that he was pissed about the imposition, but that it ended up completely changing the character of the show

Yeah, I think that's fair, it's not like Edward was not an elderly stalker introduced as a dreamy romantic ideal, and I don't think criticism of that stuff is unfair, but all the scorn about sparkly vampires comes off mostly "ugh, girly stuff"

I do think gender is a factor in the level of vitriol Twilight attracted. Like there are a lot of dumb titles out there, particularly stuff aimed at adolescents, but the one that got the internet super-mad was the one with the majority female readership, and I don't think that's completely coincidental.

I went to the Jeff Mangum-curated ATP and he played a few times over the weekend. The first show was just one big singalong, whereas people had calmed down a little by the last day and it was more of a regular show. That was amazing, but the first night was magical and transcendent and communal and all that stuff…