It’s probably the best thing you can do for an outdated villain based on Stan Lee’s questionable understanding of “exotic oriental” stereotypes: make those stereotypes the whole point of the character, the result of a focus-tested illusion that feeds off the same fears that those stereotypes initially represented.…

Damn, so THAT’S how expensive her two-second cameo in Endgame was.

The last paragraph is pure reportage. It tells us what has been happening, points out that there is a questionable level of public demand for these “comebacks,” and then states, as you do, that the free market will essentially decide whether said comebacks work or not. The only substantive difference between the last…

the part where the article says that these performers should just willfully go away and never come back.

Based on her updates, Flacco soon thereafter started throwing all his passes directly to the defensive backs, so it sounds like Bolles has convinced Flacco to join the defense as well.

Pffft, next you’ll be telling me birds are real.

You know that all of those movies are post-peak Will Smith, right? Rock probably made that joke in his 2004 special, before any of them had come out.

Russell Crowe is running out of ways to creatively justify his continued weight gain.

He was only clapping on stressed syllables. I for one think more baseball managers need to have this sort of understanding of poetic meter.

Cast him in a prequel to Episode 1 as some creep who’s bragging to his friends about slipping a space-roofie to a Tatooine slave girl and gets killed by the villain within 5 minutes of his appearance.

I think they’re referring to the 3 oddly-nationless MiGs he shot down in the original movie.

I think you’re under-ranking #2+#4.

Well yeah, but you never know if a particular coroner you overhear having sex is going to be *your* coroner.

So, based on the ranking of #5 and #6, if I still have feelings for my ex and am hearing her have sex with someone else, that’s BETTER than when I no longer have those feelings and overhear it?

Look, I don’t care about people’s tastes in music, and as far as the “lifestyle” they promote, that’s none of my business. But if this man sent a mass e-mail to all state employees, that probably means he started a Reply-All chain, which in my opinion makes him a thug.

A world inferior to the one depicted on Bob’s Burgers, of course.

It’s cool to see a band as niche as The Mountain Goats getting some primetime TV coverage, even if that doesn’t really mean what it used to.

I dunno, his positions seem a lot more internally consistent to me than most people who label themselves “born-again Christians,” and there are plenty of churches where those positions wouldn’t make him an outlier.

Darnielle’s Twitter feed and interviews still extoll the beauty of death metal, the necessity of Planned Parenthood and liberal abortion laws, and the virtues of the LGBTQ community with the same frequency that they did before his extremely mild internal philosophical adjustment (you might note that, even in an…

Props to the announcers for pretending that Tropicana Field confers any of the usual advantages of a home field for the Devil Rays. Keep illusory hope alive!