Hating Piers Morgan is becoming a broadly bipartisan position now, it's oddly soothing. Even a lot of people who might be sympathetic to his ideas find him pathologically unlikeable.

Wait, the support for a Springsteen show was a Springsteen cover band?

Hah, I have a friend who fancies himself an intellectual and considers Transformers 2 the best film ever made. He got out of drugs and into robotics and is now kind of on an MRA tip, it's been a real gift seeing him blossom as a person.

There was another great story about her being named one of NYC's most beautiful women by some magazine, and her showing up to the photo shoot to accompany the article with greasy hair and telling the make-up artist to make her look like she'd been beaten up.

Nuclear Seasons off her first album is wonderful. It seems like she's done okay writing stuff for other people but is having a hard time breaking through as a mainstream artist, and is down to her last few shots at being a pop star

Tyga's inexplicable career continues

Oh man, Kimmy Schmidt wasn't anywhere? I think I read part 1 yesterday and thought "eh, it'll probably be in tomorrow's list", and when it wasn't anywhere today I thought "eh, I only skimmed yesterday's list, it's probably back there somewhere". What a shame

I had that exact response from a friend today, that he watched two episodes and it didn't click and he figured he'd try it again some undefined time in the future.

I had to go back over it a couple of times. The implication I took from it was that Bach was unaware that he had just played a show and thought they were due onstage in a sec?

I've been meaning to read more of her sci-fi, the Dispossessed sounds amazing. I know using fantastic worlds to explore real concepts is the whole point of sci-fi, but I really liked the way the culture in Left Hand wasn't much more or less advanced than ours, just different, and different in mostly pretty simple ways…

Never heard of the guy, thanks for the tip!

I can see how close reading helps develop critical thinking, but god it is not kind to the books students have to wade through. A close reading of Middlemarch sounds brutal. And it's a shame too, it's a wonderful book. I'm always grateful I never had to study To Kill a Mockingbird at any point in my life

I enjoyed the goldfinch a lot, but I felt like it could have functioned without the whole potboiler narrative. I enjoyed the story of this kid growing up struggling to cope as the survivor of a tragedy, but the actual stuff about the Goldfinch just dragged for me, it felt like a crutch the story didn't need.

I had to study the Handmaid's Tale at sixth form college, and that painstaking, page-by-page analysis style just killed the book for me, and I never read Atwood again. Until I tried the Blind Assassin this year, and holy shit. Astonishing novel.

Female anime avatar is a red flag on twitter at this point though. More so.

I can never tell if May is corpsing Brexit to make it look so unpalatable that people don't go nuts if it gets overturned, or if it really is as bad as it looks. I guess the thing is that I have no idea what a competently-executed version of something so against our interests would look.

"Dench" is London slang for good, and is apparently inspired by Dame Judi. Slang comes from weird places.

As a huge REM fan, the decision on whether or not to look at the dick pick Stipe posted on his tumblr was one of the most solemn I have ever made on the online

The writer only delved into hip-hop in a serious way in his early to mid-twenties!

There's a jittery paranoia to a lot of TLOP that could work well