Which is the mark of good satire, I guess? It always surprises me it's still a discussion, given that it really doesn't try to be subtle about it

Right, a friend of mine fully accepts that it's satirical and hates it to death. He also gets incredibly angry if you say that any part of Top Gun is homoerotic. Dude has Strong Opinions on movies.

I saw someone (a fellow movie critic iirc) castigating our own sainted Scott Tobias on twitter for claiming that Starship troopers was a satire instead of bad just a week ago.

Bojack Horseman, Daniel Radcliffe guests on the in-show quiz series "JD Salinger Presents Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!"

Came here looking for that one goddam reference, thank you

Although I think the standard for topping the hardback bestseller lists is if somebody other than your immediate family buys it. If an aunt and second cousin pick it up too, you're there.

I do believe her when she said she was using a pseudyonym to see if her work would get good reviews even if her name wasn't on it. Especially after her book about local by-elections or whatever got treated as THE NEW BOOK BY THE AUTHOR OF HARRY POTTER, etc.

Even if Formation etc isn't your thing, All Night off Lemonade is a straight-up wonderful r&b soul track

Our dear, departed Steve Hyden once remarked on twitter that Lucky Star by Madonna is the Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath of eighties bubblegum pop, in terms of side A track 1 on a debut record basically creating a genre

Marina Hyde is great still, barbed and incisive

Kissing the Beehive is such a great concert closer too

Oh! Interesting. That makes a lot more sense

Edit: argh I thought my phone ate my comment and I wrote it from scratch like a chump and then the original showed up and fuck this blasted hellscape of a planet

Adult Swim is definitely doing fine, and if it ain't broke etc

I think there's still questions about the level of approachability. Lazzo saying women don't pitch work at Adult Swim because *gestures vaguely*… stuff?, like it's a thing that is how it is and it's unchangeable, like he's describing photosynthesis, is pretty weak.

Oof

They had (SPOILERS) filo pastry this week and what I learned is that nobody should ever have to make baklava. It's delicious, but it's not worth it!

Apparently Mel and Sue threatened to quit during the first season because the producers wanted them to probe into their personal lives more for tales of loss, so they could say things like "what would your dead grandmother think of this?", so I think that, thanks to their influence, the show was pretty formed from its…

Hah, I think so, wasn't a great fit.

"we locked in battle with a mythic beast, both bright white and mahogany,
man and baby, ego and terrible, terrible fragility all at once."