i tell ya, living in the LA area-- you hear a lotta spooky stories about those bryan singer parties... 

It seems pretty obvious she’ll be cast as Sauron.

we reported that Henry Cavill was most likely done playing Superman in Warner Bros.’ DC superhero movies

Tell men that a single room at a single event is off limits to them for a couple of hours and it’s a war crime to be tried at the Hague. Implement and nourish a work culture openly hostile for over a decade and “ThaT’S JuSt VieDEo GamES BRo”

This is not meant to be shade on Aretha, since it seems like things will default to how I hope she would have wanted it, so she didn’t see a need for formalize it, but please please please people: have a will and make sure it is in safe hands!

I really wonder if Simmons will pop in a Holland movie at some point. 

Comics, man.

It’s funny,  growing up in a conservative family and watch media in the 80s and 90s,  I thought Jimmy Carter was the biggest joke of any president.   Now I realize how bad we fucked up not giving him another term(and letting Reagan in) 

He was put to death for crimes against humanity. The Golden Age was hardcore.

Certainly Claremont deserves the primary credit. I only meant to mention the one instance where Lee/Kirby made any sort of feint towards the themes X-Men would become most known for. Thomas and Adams added to it, again with their own Sentinel story.

As I wrote, I don’t believe the parallels are truly Lee’s, but Claremont’s. And by the time Claremont was writing Magneto he was more of an anti-hero than true villain. The parallel *really* only went as far as how does an oppressed race (Black/mutant) respond to bigotry - turn the other cheek vs “by any means…

I am in agreement. People who ask this a person on a plane are monsters. I know they tell themselves “I am just asking, they can say no.” But that’s a fucking lie, and they know it. The person asking are seeking to use a conventions of politeness and neighborly behavior to unnecessarily impose on strangers. Fuck those…

While I agree that the majority of the race metaphors came later during Claremont’s run, the Lee-Kirby run’s high point was the original Sentinel arc, which did finally take the concept into some racial/paranoia thematic territory.

“I couldn’t have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or zapped with gamma rays, and it occurred to me that if I just said that they were mutants, it would make it easy. Then it occurred to me that instead of them just being heroes that everybody admired, what if I made other people fear and suspect and actually…

Yeah, the “Xavier-as-MLK/Magneto-as-Malcolm” thing was really more Claremont’s, although in his dotage Stan has claimed it for himself in interviews. (Much as Kirby would occasionally cite the incident of an adrenalized woman lifting a car off her kid - depicted in the INCREDIBLE HULK tv show - as his inspiration for…

A friend of mine out there who knew a number of people involved (several of whom died) was furious about what she felt was Harris getting railroaded; apparently he saved a number of lives trying to get people out at no insignificant risk to himself. Don’t know the details closely enough to vouch for all the other…

By all accounts these guys were assholes but I don’t really know what purpose sending these guys to prison for 39 years instead of 9 years would solve anyway. And I say that both as a resident of Oakland and as someone who works with people sentenced to 25+ years in prison. We have to stop equating the length of the…

Because conservatives now are even more thin skinned than they were then, and because Colbert spoke with the unshakable authority of a white man, whom Republicans can’t help but grant at least grudging respect toward.

what the fuck is ASMR and why is this article written as if I’m supposed to know what it is?

She’ll make sure the votes were counted correctly, since Asians are good at math