When I was growing up my mom knew a lot of French techniques in the kitchen and French food would come up sometimes, on the table or in conversation. Her explanation was that, yes, French food all day means that you're going to be eating a pound of butter or butter adjacent products with a baguette on the side, but…

I'd just like to call attention to that picture of naked Forrest. We've got Ca, we've got arrow wounds, there appears to be a scar from where they took his abs out, the whole show up to this point is written on his body. Excellent work to whoever set that up and thanks to the avclub for helping me appreciate it.

Just Mac has to eat him and becomes fat again

To keep the drugs from getting into real America

The ol' "I hate kids and it's Halloween" maneuver

Oh you have to do it how it is in the poem, it's fucking MOTHER OF EXILES. It sounds so metal and is such a beautiful sentiment. I've teared up on that one a couple times in recent months

It's not the kind of thing you're going to get a chance to do twice. If someone intentionally caused this, which seems incredibly likely, they're about to the most walkin-papers-havin, most fired ex-employee in the history of getting shitcanned.

Pornoworm, huh?

Oh god you would see the pettiest fucking shit. There'd be a wall down the east side of the west coast.

We've already got unofficial versions of the public face of several government agencies and an unofficial mainstream media publishing unofficial facts, unofficial messages on very official monuments (I don't buy for a second that this was a coincidence), might as well say fuck it and start electing unofficial…

The other thing that really stuck with me was how in-your-face the tactics are. The whole getting texts morning noon and night shit sounds more like a partner you should break up with than a legitimate church.

Yeah I'm not usually watching a documentary because I want to hear a documentarian talk about how hard it is to make a documentary. I used to like that well enough because having them there as a proxy makes you feel validated for agreeing with the smart man, but these days I just want to hear what the people have to…

Especially once you get into the Blood and Wine stuff, which I can't recommend highly enough. That new region feels so strange, but it feels like a place. I found myself rolling my eyes and saying "fuckin Toussaint" more than once when a character would act extra Toussaint-y. When you find yourself instinctually…

They had a book store where I grew up with an enormous orange cat who liked to take naps on the counter right next to the register, making the transaction sort of awkward. I think his name was Orlando

I spent a good portion of my formative years in the extreme metal scene, and naturally the adjacent punk and hardcore scenes. Through that time I had dudes try to buddy up to me and sell me the white victimization narrative at shows and parties more times than I could count. Interestingly, and you'll see this in the…

Yeah exactly. I'm not trying to forgive my personal foibles in what's meant to be the most important person on the planet. There's a reason I'm not in that role, I expect a better person than me to do work more important than I'm capable of. I don't know how to fly a plane, that's a forgivable failing for me but…

I kind of wonder if this isn't how social media professionals make their bones. Set up a fake company that's gauging interest on something that will never get made, prove you were able to get it famous enough for light coverage on "oh my god look at this garbage" type sites, cash all them ironic follows in for a…

When you try to buy this on amazon, the "also bought" package is gonna be soylent and an anime

It's this beautiful mixture of vaguery and enthusiasm. There's a line in Brad Neely's George Washington thing about how "he'll kick you apart, he'll kick you apart!" that's hilarious in the same way. So much intention mixed with no specifics whatsoever allows the audience to craft the funniest version they can…

We still have global warming though