Finding out that Jim Parsons, who plays uber-geek Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, bats for the rainbow team is a surprise, and it is not a surprise. We aren’t talking about Liberace, and we aren’t talking about Rock Hudson, either. So the obvious response is neither “Duh,” nor “No way!” but “Huh.” Which… Read More Jim Parsons and the Gayness of Geeks
I’ve always rather liked The Great Gatsby, because I find Fitzgerald’s prose far better than any of the other Greats of the Roaring Twenties, especially Hemingway, who reads the way sawdust tastes, and Faulkner, who seemed to think that Henry James wasn’t quite loquacious enough. F. Scott never forgot that writing serves the story. However,… Read More Lileks on Gatsby
May be even funnier than normal Lileks, be such a thing concievable. You get the dryness with a hint of frenzy. Went downstairs and turned on the TV and was amused to see I’d left off watching “They Live,” which is The Matrix except with a wrestler. Heh. But that’s on OTC pain pills. Wait… Read More Lileks on Drugs
Ladd Ehlinger does what many righties have done over the years with regards to Family Guy, which is get nice and pissed at it and then banish it from his DVR. Which is a perfectly sane and sensible thing to do. But Ladd seems to sound surprised at the crudity of McFarlane’s political satire (it… Read More Why Family Guy Sucks at Political Humor
Love Your Movies, which had the sagacity and good taste to like my post from yesterday, has an exhaustive and mostly truth-telling list of what Hollywood is throwing at us this solstice: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. I actually think this will do pretty well. It will bring in the Zombieland audience — people who like… Read More The Summer Blockbusters Will Bust the Blocks. In Summer.
It’s such fun to declare that the Gods are in twilight; you gain the status of a bold truth-teller even if your prediction’s flat-out wrong. Erick Jackson, writing at Forbes is taking just such a risk, point out that Google and Facebook may not be well suited to the new Mobile App world. Which is… Read More Google and Facebook are Dead. Except They Aren’t.
I finally got around to seeing “The People Vs. George Lucas” and found the nerd-rage satisfying. But this has never been about nerd-rage for me. I don’t accuse George Lucas of raping my childhood. Bill Corbett (of MST3K fame) has it right in this tweet: The average Star Wars fan has put 7000 times more… Read More Star Wars Day is a Good Day to Slag George Lucas Once More…
I don’t normally comment on clearly not-long-for-this-world aesthetic fads, because that would require me to care about them, and I have very little room for Caring About Things after I’m done damning the Proggies and congratulating my own cleverness. But the Internet’s reigning King of Nostalgia is able to marshal sound and solid arguments against… Read More Lileks on the Horror of Instagram
…and no one cares. Okay, Fletch was funny. Caddyshack was kinda funny. The Vacation series was okay-funny. First-season SNL must have been funny (I was 1 at the time). Everything else Chevy Chase has done is unwatchable crap. Weak, tired, and unfunny. Chevy Chase could have sucked the life out of Ghostbusters. So Chevy Chase… Read More Chevy Chase is So Full of Being Chevy Chase, He Doesn’t Realize That He’s Chevy Chase…
Via Stacy McCain, the former Bunny speaks unvarnished truth: “I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.” This, of course, is the point of “Reality” TV: the talentless doing nothing so as to make the lives of the reg’lar folk seem more interesting than they really are. Because if Kendra’s life is as banal… Read More Kendra Wilkinson Displays More Self-Awareness Than Most of Hollywood…
