You like Korki Buchek??? Kazakh superstar finally break though in US and A! High five!

I revisited Steinbeck's Acts several years ago, having not read it since I was 14 (it was on a summer reading list for school and I wanted to revisit it as an adult). It's very good. It's florid yet brisk and you really feel the affection (and fun) that Steinbeck is having while writing it.

"All those losers there better shut up or put up, 'cause I put up for the past eight years. That's what democracy's all about: You vote, and the person who wins, everybody supports him. Nobody protested Obama."

It's so simple and obvious, I would have thought this luxury of online jihads against the cultural outrage du jour would have gone way down after January 20th. But, old habits die hard, and creating actual change is hard.

I know! Was going to comment on the attendant irony, but you did it better than I would have.

Can't wait to boycott all of his sponsors! Do you have a list of all of them? Oh, wait…

This is so tiresome to see on The AV Club. But, it's a business model. It has absolutely nothing to do with liberalism or progressivism. If you think otherwise you're deluding yourself.

I'll buy that… It's been a while since I've seen either.

Yeah. His OCD with regards to anything that can't be broken down into rational thought (he's a numbers guy above all else) is what trips him up, especially with Ginger's issues & Nicky's antics (and the Nevada Gaming Commission, for that matter). Pretty good considering his other two protagonists. I think Henry…

Aside from revisiting a couple movies I haven't seen in a while, the thing I'm really hyped about is delving into Pankaj Mishra's The Age Of Anger which just came out last month. I have a couple Audible credits and searched for it immediately after I heard him on one of my favorite podcasts, BBC History Extra. They…

I'm going to allow it. I feel the audacity of the narrative structure in Casino (how three people's character flaws singlehandedly got the mob kicked out of Vegas) is bolder than Goodfellas' narrative structure. It's an amazingly audacious film.

rational discussion is the natural state of human behaviour
No, but we have to work within that framework. There is no way around it. Leave the appeals to negative emotion to the right. It's what they do best. There are only two ways to bind a society: Aspiration and Fear. I don't think it's wise for sane rational…

No, I agree with the IC that they should serve the Constitution above all else, including Article 25, and that Trump is mentally unfit to be in the WH so they should hold back some info in his PDB's (not that he reads them anyways) under the assumption that, as the anonymous NSA official was quoted in the WSJ said,…

Awesome, thanks!

That's a childish, insane, unworkable, reactive, purely negative-emotion-based, and (most importantly) completely counterproductive plan you got there. I'm no fan of Maher* but it's like some people just stumbled onto Maher all of the sudden after 15 years of a consistently consistent format (longer if you count his…

Malcolm Nance was on? Well I might need to break down and see this (or listen to the podcast). I don't care for Maher because his show has been the same thing for the past 15 years. I don't have an ideological crusade against him, I just got tired of the endlessly repetitive format and bailed around 2012. I really…

Haha no worries tangent away! I'm down for any recommendations on that sub-blockbuster level.

Just saw Matt Wu's One Night Only and it reminded me how vibrant the industry is below the blockbuster level, just not really marketed here. You have to really be good at digging.

Why doesn't China respect the <block>electrolytes</block> Intersectionality that Millennials crave??? I need to express my outrage towards every single movie that comes out, but with this one I'm having a tough time getting a toehold.

Seems like legit advice, one hour old egg with 17 Anti-Clinton comments!