I might accept that it was eclipsed at the time, but it’s only grown in my estimation since the first time I saw it.  Like most Coen films it’s packed with amusing little nuggets that you’ll likely miss the first time through.

American exceptionalism: where even stupidity is considered unique.

Dear rest of the world:

I credit the Coens with course-correcting Clooney’s career. He was good in several earlier roles, but overlaying his undeniable charisma with a goofy overconfidence was a stroke of genius. His willingness to not take himself seriously reminds me a bit of Timberlake, who definitely endeared himself to a lot of people…

I'd forgotten until this article mentioned it how damn good a song Man of Constant Sorrow is. 

He’s the paterfamilias! It’s funny how goofy he is here and how it’s far and away the most sympathetic a character he is in a Coen flick (and he’s great and honest when the chips are down at the end), the three of them just love making him a dolt.

Oh, man. I was working a video store when the PS2 launched. It was such a shitshow. We had systems to rent, but ZERO memory cards to rent OR sell. And it wasn’t just us, it was all over the city I lived in. And yeah, the initial game roster was... something.

“He’s not necessarily a bad person”

Nobody is stopping from you from financially contributing to whoever or whatever you want, even bigots, who you apparently don’t have a huge problem with.

You might have an argument, except that Doug TenNapel is writing bigoted shit now, today (okay, last week).

Fuck this post is stupid. Jesus.

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion when it comes to politics or social politics.”

might as well burn all art and media before the 1980s then

In a production of Ramona Quimby when the whole family goes to Whopperburger, I’m pretty sure I remember that our “burgers” were a slice of pumpernickel between a sesame seed bun. No grease on those costumes!

I’ve made so much tapenade from the jar I got, nice bit of different to serve for guests.

That’s a very high olive to meat ratio. You must be a big olive fan. Can’t say I disapprove.

That first Fable game is one of my favorite gaming experience memories. It hasn’t aged well, but at the time, yeah I really loved the aesthetic and atmosphere.

Justice League sucked, and clumsily attempting to graft Whedon’s sensibilities onto Snyder’s foundation probably made it suck harder, but good god is Zack Snyder hard to take. You’re an up-jumped commercial director with the critical and literary sensibilities of a 14-year-old whose single idea—excessive slo-mo to…

Good, he fixed the problem where Superman wasn’t wearing a melted on trash bag, thank fuck.  That was an issue.  And it’ll be long AND not funny?  What a breath of fresh air!

Purely the in-universe timeline, of course.

The fascinating thing to me has been the more I dig into the meta history of Star Wars, the more I start seeing all the ways the backstory has been reworked, smoothed over, and generally polished to omit things that would be inconvenient to the modern narrative.

Things like…