ITEM! Which 94-year-old pen pusher is now pushing up daisies? We’ll never tell which word-Smith will Dish no more from the 37th floor!

It’s a reflection of the fact that black culture doesn’t really travel that I had to to google who Haddish was. The stuff that came up (Keanu, The Carmichael Show, Girls Trip) isn’t on the radar outside America.

Bill’s Durst-like demeanor MUST have influenced the show’s decision to make this episode.

Anal Sex Event is a prog-rock group from Seattle, formerly known as the Choke Me Daddies.

He floats a lot of ideas. If you took him at his word, it’d add up to about 15 different bizarre film projects. Of course, almost none of them would get funding from anywhere so they get to the treatment stage then sit around collecting dust.

I’m seeing sesquipedalian! A hundred Mantzoukases!

I’ve noticed some cyclical elements in almost every episode so far:

I think people that cast comedies like Jason Mantzoukas’ manic persona about ten times more than I do.

DIANE LANE is SLEEP ATTACK

*football

If you drew a Venn diagram showing the union of ‘people who use the word “paeans”’ and ‘people who misspell the word “paeans”’ then Katie would be the only data point.

It’s horrifying to me that people would drink drip coffee from an urn that’s been sitting on a warmer all day, but in films and TV they’re found in workplaces where people do necessary, honest work that puts hair on your chest, and pod coffee — clearly a better option — is only seen in workplaces that are soul-sucking…

It’s shit like this, AV Club.

The Conservative Party are a far-right NZ party (comparable to the GOP on social issues). The party in this case was the National Party, who are centre-right in NZ (which would be slightly left of centre in USA).

Finished ‘Superintelligence’ by Nick Bostrom, started ‘Tribe’ by Sebastian Junger. Both very insightful; the former on AI threats, the latter on identity and belonging.

Patton Oswalt’s special closed out with M. Ward’s ‘Chinese Translation’ which was just perfect.

Watched Atomic Blonde and The Dark Tower, and found that they suffered from the same flaw: trying to pack too much superfluous content around the most interesting character’s hero arc. There are too many great 90-minute action movies compromised by being stretched out into 120-minute action-dramas.

The ‘Batgirl’ theme sounds like a dying record player inside a vacuum cleaner.

Mind Hunter was a pretty famous book.

I’m glad that you contextualized this with the reason for the temporary ban (doxing). I wish all articles about outrage/reaction/response did this, because I feel it’s the absolute minimum level of journalistic responsibility — and not seen enough in the Kinjaverse.