Bleeding Edge is great though and is the only book I've read that I felt got nerd culture and the internet right— mostly because Pynchon's usual unreality meant that he could be more over-the-top and cartoonish in his portrayal, and because it was a well-researched period piece. It remains the only time I've seen…

I'm working on the First Novel— not with any real publishing ambition, more as entertainment— and was originally working on something set in the near future. Then I thought about how I'd have to grapple with social media, the evolving role of the internet, and the increasing blurring of communication and information.

Redneck cannibal! Chainsaw! Whaddaya need, a roadmap?

And hell, Hannibal isn't even backstory and spits in the face of explaining him.

When I was a teenager, and their music was new to me, it took me so long to wrap my head around why the band was good and what made them special. But the instant I heard "The Gift," I knew they were my favorite band.

No band has ever been cooler. John Cale was a Welsh church organist with a pageboy haircut, and he managed to be cool. Lou Reed was a leathery mix of heroin and vaseline, and he managed to be cool. Mo Tucker is the size of an Ewok and has looked like everyone's mom since she was 20, and the VU made her an icon.

Yeah, her tea partiness more seems to come out of legitimate bitterness— she's one of the greatest drummers of all time and still got left behind to work at a Wal-Mart in rural Georgia. She always seemed to be a class act with the band and in the years following, and you can trace a huge amount of indie rock directly…

Given that E was telling a trans person yesterday that white trans people had no right to complain about transphobia because racism existed, that seems pretty par for the course.

Boston's not really a college town.

For real, it's fun as hell and I usually come home with new sheets.

See also: everyone else in the Raimi Spider-Man movies. Other films may have better captured what made comic books good, but those capture what make comic books weird and special.

I think you have to fuck up in a way that doesn't make the studio look bad. Goldsman screws up Dark Tower or Batman and Robin, they can say "people don't want to see superhero movies" or "I guess the book's not as hot as everyone says." De Palma screws up Bonfire of the Vanities and everyone involved looks like a…

Unbreakable is grade-A work from everyone involved. Jackson does so well with a very different character than he usually gets, and I'd say it's Shyamalan's best as a director.

Do you think that Americans like to cheat, just like Russians do?

"Donny got drunk, and he groped me."
"Donny doesn't drink!"

Nah, that dog was so chill they didn't notice it was there until the twelfth take, and Tommy proceeded to ask if it was a real dog. The "hi doggy" in the movie is the first instant Tommy noticed it. The dog's fine.

"No one is black or white. Everyone is red blue and white I love America thank you usa."

Also, he doesn't wipe.

Maybe my favorite line from the most recent AJJ record: "If some dumb dick says don't stop believing, you can stop believing. Don't don't stop believing."

Nope, solidly lower-middle-class, employed in the private sector, spent most of my adult life up until a few years ago barely scraping by. It's not like my life is particularly easy or smooth, just that none of my problems have to do with being a cis white man.