And anyway, everyone knows Uptown Funk is a ripoff of Strong Bad's "Everybody to the Limit."

Photoshop started as a Mac program and I think there were some other "artistic" programs which were Mac exclusive so it had a little street cred in that sense.

I'd say the Twin Towers are kind of unique, not just because the tragedy was especially sad, (although to be sure, that was a real bummer) but because their identity is so subsumed by the event of their collapse. When you think about Los Angeles you don't think about the Northridge earthquake, because LA has lots of…

I don't think that's right, the truth is a bit more complicated than that. http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/… A natural flavoring is a chemical extracted from an organism of some kind, while an artificial flavoring is synthesized by artificial chemical reactions. This is a somewhat arbitrary distinction, since your body…

Funnily enough, it kind of reminded me of Shirobako. All the work of coordinating lots of different things as part of a larger machine: figuring how to split up work, trying to do things as efficiently as possible; doing a big budget Hollywood blockbuster and producing a televised anime series aren't so different,…

I want this Ghostbusters reboot to have really gratuitous product placement for Crystal Skull Vodka.

The Northeast doesn't have either.

Officially, none of that was product placement, it's just that the Seinfeld-David style of comedy likes commenting on name brands.

Obama should go on the Flophouse to review Jupiter Ascending.

There's a middle ground. You can ask critical questions which require complex answers without tearing him apart for perpetuating American imperialism or whatever. Marc Maron is a basically sympathetic interviewer and isn't going to go out of his way make Obama look bad, but that doesn't mean he can't ask tough…

You know, there's a lot more overlap between depressed pasty nerds and porn stars than you might expect.

My half-hearted defense of unrealistic depictions of women is that I think it's limiting for a person's sexuality to be viewed through the metric of actual human beings they might conceivably have sex with. Fantasy for fantasy's sake is important too and if your fantasy is of anatomically impossible superhumans, then…

Even if they want to limit themselves to "light skinned black women who were more popular fifteen years ago but are still attractive enough to be in this sort of ad campaign" Halle Berry seems like the obvious choice.

Replacing Kate Upton's breasts with Mariah Carey's breasts is a dramatic change to their brand.

It's definitely jumping the gun to say treat attacks on Courtney Love as an attack on all women. Now, if the movie had called her a "scheming conniving c**t" then that would be more problematic. It's all about how you go about it.

Male seahorses can get pregnant, and of course tons of species lay their eggs externally, the "biological" distinction is made generally based on which "type" produces ova and which makes sperm. (Or more precisely, the female is whichever produces larger gametes.) But since Kif's reproductive process doesn't seem to…

This is the only episode IMDB credits her as writing, but I'd like to assume she's just constantly pitching Al Gore jokes in the writer's room.

We can do "The A.V. Club" memes about Savage Love now? This won't end well.

I don't think there's really any trend of "the nostalgia cycle shortening." 20-ish years ago is a pretty stable benchmark for "core" nostalgia, from Happy Days to today. (People in the 1950s weren't very nostalgic for the 1930s, but well, that's understandable.) It's just that that there's more psuedonostalgia of…

That's still kind of a stupid "point of view" to take. Transgender women have all sorts of disadvantages, the fact that she moved into a smaller dating pool is a relatively minor one, and focusing on that particular disadvantage as hilarious is just "problematic."