Oh man, I bet this will be a tasteful and understanding portrayal of mental illness.

Thank you for saying this. Sometimes I feel like I must have a brain tumor when I say that not every Ghibli film is essential and that several of them aren't even that great. You'd think that Miyazaki was the only anime director in the world, the way people talk.

I have a Phillips and it's great. It gets me awake gradually and simulates the feeling of waking up naturally, so it's not nearly as jolting as just waking up to an alarm and it's easier to actually get out of bed once I am awake. A lot of times I'm actually awake about halfway through the light cycle and it just…

Chalupa Jack clearly cared more about oral sex than oral hygiene.

Well, anything narrated by Leonard Nimoy has to be reasonable and sane.

Same here. DMing gives me some small illusion of power and control in a world gone mad.

You're not wrong.

My absolute favorite. It's really catchy and has some amazing pop hooks, but it's really lyrically dense and I love how willing it is to grapple with really complex political ideas. "Was it a Lie" is probably my favorite song of theirs and goes into some complex theory and powerfully uncomfortable subject matter. It's…

I'm pretty sure that most Jewish people wouldn't consider you to be truly observing the scriptures when you happily and willingly work in the same department as Sebastian Gorka, who pledged allegiance to a Nazi collaborator militia.

Man, the DeVos family are just cartoonishly evil. If you pitched a movie about a family made up of a pyramid scheme founder, the owner of a private mercenary group, and an idiot who bought herself a secretary position so she could defund school lunches, I'd respond by saying that I missed the nuanced political satire…

Okay, I didn't go to their fancy school— I made it a point of pride that I was one of about three kids in my AP program that didn't— but family pride and what tiny scraps of state pride I have left command me to say, reluctantly, go Heels.

I just can't stop thinking about a Judith and Holofernes ending.

I'm with you. It's one of the only things going on I can't try to joke about or find gallows humor in. It's just infuriating and sad that an entire party, in unison, turned their backs on the very idea of governance and are getting exactly what they want out of it.

Idiotking.

It's like all the drama of a Tolstoy novel, with all the vulgar, self-serving venality and petty evil of a Gogol novel!

It is what I hold up as the definitive example of a Fiasco by the MWOF standard.

Well, I'm glad to hear that it's not overtly hateful or mean-spirited. Hill's done a lot of work I love and he seems to dig what he's doing, so the fact that he's out there, making a weird misguided boondoggle of a campy exploitation thriller, makes me happy.

Objection— it's debatable whether Southland Tales is good, but I find it absolutely watchable. The JT musical number, Dwayne Johnson's performance, and Jon Lovitz doing hate crimes and quoting Philip K. Dick are worth a lot to me.

Hell yeah. Not my favorite S-K record— I really dig how theory-dense and catchy All Hands is —but a beautiful and aggressive mission statement. Janet Weiss makes a big difference compared to the first two; all three members are absolute monsters at what they do.

Don't do it kids. You'll have to listen to someone talk about Rush.