This probably contains SPOILERS, but I’ve really written it for people who’ve already watched the season. If you’ve never watched it, it won’t make sense to you. I wasn’t really going to take the time to analyze Stranger Things. I wasn’t even going to watch it. Others have pointed out that the show has lost… Read More Dumping on Popular Entertainment: Stranger Things Has Too Many Characters
Time for Low-Rent Clint Eastwood to Ride Again. The only question is Why, and there’s only one answer. No one is going to enjoy this. Harrison Ford is too old for this. He was too old for it in the last movie. It’s going to be regurgitated trash, that will almost but not quite pay… Read More Oh Good, a New Indiana Jones Movie
The joke of the year (decade?) is they don’t, and I’ll have to explain to my grandchildren that long ago there were these big living rooms with hundreds of seats that people used to pay half the price of a DVD (what’s a DVD, grampa?) for one ticket, and by kitchen snacks for, and sit… Read More Do They Even Have Movies Anymore?
Usually when I see an article about “Millenials” or “Millenial Trends” or “Stuff These Damn Millenials are Doing”, I scroll past it. Partly because it’s usually empty-calorie click-bait, but mostly because I’ve decided that “Millenials” are not a thing. There are people born between 1981 and 1997, and they have a set of shared cultural… Read More 31 Incredibly Lame Shots at Modern Bands – A Fisking
First, in honor of Pat Conroy’s passing, his own eulogy of his father, the Great Santini. The essence of it: We were raised by the men who made the United States of America the safest country on earth in the bloodiest century in all recorded history. Read the Whole Thing. Second, Ace of Spades reposts… Read More Two Reruns: A Moving Tribute and a Glorious Hilarity
For a long time, we were lost in the darkness. Unable to tell what was problematic, or, if we dared push past our privelege to consider if it was problematic, to know just how problematic it was. Those. Days. Are. Over. For example, of course you knew that Wonder Woman’s costume was Problematic. That’s a… Read More Everything’s a Problem is the Tumblr You Didn’t Know You Needed
Kevin Williamson opines on how monsters make the ladies swoon. The phenomenon of young women falling in love with death-row inmates, particularly with serial killers, is not new: Women flocked to Ted Bundy’s trial — his trial for raping, torturing, and murdering young women as a prelude to acts of necrophilia — and he received… Read More Charles Manson, Star Wars, and the Joy of Hate
Lists! Lists all the time! Here’s what I have to say in response to this paint-by-numbers men-are-icky listicle: 1. They know how to wire 17 devices through one surge protector… Is that difficult? Put the plug in the socket. This is beyond female ken? Really? 2. But have no idea how to put down the… Read More Oh, Good. MTV is Getting into the Buzzfeed Market.
Sometimes it’s hard to know when an idea is so crazy that someone advocating it is pulling your leg. I’ll admit it: when I read this paragraph… The fact of the matter is, if it weren’t natural, I wouldn’t still produce milk, and it wouldn’t feel good to breast feed my son. Because of the… Read More Mom Claims to be Breastfeeding Her 12-Year-Old Son on ThoughtCatalog, and the Internet Fails Another Satire Test.
Coldplay? Coldplay. If you don’t laugh, then I’m afraid you have no soul.
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