We had one of these when I was a kid in Germany. Mostly what I remember is my parents complaining that it handled “like a cardboard box in a wind tunnel”.

Weezer fan purity is measured in how few albums you’ll admit you like. I’ve met fans so hardcore, they think Weezer has zero good albums.

There’s a typo in the Weezer part

Granted, My Little Pony was never going to show anyone on a mushroom trip or have anyone saying “fuck,”

The new book might be a D, but if it’s any consolation, his Louis C.K. lookalike game is a solid B+.

Great performance in Zodiac, but severely miscast—doesn’t look a thing like Ted Cruz.

This is incorrect re US copyright law - selective enforcement is permissible. It’s trademark that requires uniform affirmative enforcement efforts in order for it to retain maximum protection.

It’s “property” in a colloquial sense, but it’s more precise to think of copyright and TM as a set of exclusive rights you might have with respect to certain intangible things. These rights mainly derive from federal statute (and ultimately from the constitution), but they evolved under different circumstances and…

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Eh, the approach in the review worked for me. For the most part, resurrected pop culture from my formative years bums me out, but more than most, it feels like it'd be impossible to re-access ATDI's initial magic in 2017. Am I too old? Is the band too old? Either way I think there's a finite window for some things and…

I wish journalists would just straight up ask him basic, high-school-social-studies-quiz type questions about world politics, geography, and american government. That would have been amazing during the debates.

One problem with Hatesong is that the interviewer is almost always just nodding along and agreeing with the subject - and sometimes even offering up new, more coherent arguments for them.

I wish I wasn't too young to go to a Pixies show and too old to go to a Mitski show.

I used to order Yuengling as a kind of PA pride thing, but my pride in the state and its mass market beer have both suffered post-Trump.

Craft beer connoisseurs may turn their noses up at Genesee, but for connoisseurs of ultra-minimalist, borderline unrealistically generic packaging, their cans are hard to top.

Counterpoint: Bixler's twitter, which you would expect to be as self-serious and opaque as his musical output, but instead it's mostly pop culture observations and dick jokes

As a trademark, the official usage is that Lego should always be used as an adjective ("Lego bricks"), rather than as a noun. Use it as a noun too much and you risk genericide - e.g., the grandmother scenario you describe where people start to conflate a trademark thing with its generic equivalent.

The lack of resolution is clearly a shameless setup for the sequel, Idaho 2: Still Idaho'n.

Digging that cover, notwithstanding that (who am I kidding - because) it looks like a straight up Wes Anderson prop.

You misspelled "Hoobastank"