No American is ever allowed to make fun of the DPRK again.

"'The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll' if written by Jorge Luis Borges and Patrick Bateman" how about I just blow your and my heads off right now

A book that’s seems scientifically designed to make me as mad as humanly possible.

Ten years ago I won a Simpsons trivia contest on the second tiebreaker dead heat round where the grand prize was a free Simpsons themed tattoo. The artist never got back to me when I tried to arrange the appointment, but I have hung onto the coat of arms for Gudger College I designed for it.

Got tickets to see Backrooms with a buddy tonight, let’s see what all the fuss is about.

Why does it look like Spidey is doing the West Side Story dance

Are any of the sisters in The Shaggs still alive? Maybe they can play that White House lawn thing.

The last time Boards of Canada came out with new album after a long hiatus, Obama was in his second term.

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Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

That’s also the face I make when Neil Fak drops devastating wedding news to Sugar.

I think those "let's turn this solid 2 hour movie into an okayish 8 episode series" are best understood as an enrichment activity for movie stars now that Hollywood doesn't make 2 hour adult programmers anymore. They're the pumpkin stuffed with raw meat of the entertainment industry.

Showing up to the Art of Shibari seminar dressed like this

Top Chef just had a contestant crash out so bad about being eliminated that he was angrily reading his contract’s language about the show’s judging criteria to the crew WHILE THE CREDITS ROLLED.

Spielberg coming out with a new alien invasion movie reminds me of something that probably marks me as a Cranky Oldhead: I still really fucking hate that the son lives and is perfectly fine at the end of War of the Worlds, and it basically kills the movie for me.

Students for Trump co-founder arrested on domestic violence charges, allegedly yelled “Do you want to die today?”

chat is this real

the Best Show call-in segment, “Who is the dumbest member of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young?”, from 2008, still pops in my head at least once a month wfmu.org/flashplayer....

you know it is actually kind of cool that the pope is like rallying humanity to battle against AI. conceptually I mean. not to be part of but as a sort of set piece at the end of humanity

found a contender for all time funniest Christgau review

I think if we bring back the 1993-1997 global village cafe aesthetic to all things it could be a soothing balm for US culture if not an actual healing measure. A CCC for DMB

as much as i appreciate the democrats responding with vigor for once, the fact that republicans are using "transgender" as a slur for a political candidate is fucking horrifying and dems need to quickly figure out a way to address it head on. calling stephen miller ugly isn't a long-term fix.

What do you think Leguizamo and Trump talked about back then? I bet he was a huge fan of The Pest.

They should make an AI avatar of the way Stan actually looked for most of his career, before he added the toupee and mustache gimmick

Besides the point, but he should probably start calling himself Old MC nowadays, yeah?

Genuinely great to see Vordul thrive--for years and years, it felt like he was this cautionary tale because of the Will High stuff, the addiction, homeless rumors, that weird Cannibal Ox reunion album (all of which is in here), but his Cold Vein shit was the perfect balance of 'backpacky' and gutter

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken

Is Dril’s “This whole thing smacks of gender” tweet the most Lathe Of Heaven’d tweet of all-fime?

Most people my age will say it’s Mufasa’s death in the Lion King, but I don’t remember feeling all that sad when Mufasa died. I *do* remember Scar’s death, because it scared the shit out of me!

I'm exhausted with beautiful people. I don't want to see them anymore. you couldn't make Who Framed Roger Rabbit? today. the detective would have been some Hemsworthian flesh sculpture but with brown hair and glasses probably

If my dad vibe coded an app to not pick me up from school I’d sort nursing homes by rating and put him in the worst one

death penalty

From Hell WILL convince you that a random church in London is the most evil place on earth

what kinda guys were you hanging with, Pauline…

Sure you might lose money but you have to look at some of the benefits: 1) depriving a human family of a livelihood 2) having a CEO driven so mad by a lack of human communication that he starts talking publicly about his sperm

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

“I made a movie and it didn’t do very well in the post-COVID box office environment” does not seem like a fertile vein of relatable trauma

Paying rent via an app and only via an app, until your apartment management changes and you have to dig your checkbook out of mothballs for two months until the new app you have to pay rent on is revealed bsky.app/profile/bria...

We need Hollywood to make a big comeback so the screenwriters and actors can stop doing podcasts.

The writing was on the wall around 2016, I stuck it out working in MMA media for another couple of years, but it was like watching the world's least entertaining, most offensive train wreck heading for a crash

The UFC is a great example of everything that's gone wrong in American pop culture, sports, and the economy generally over the past few decades: an organization run entirely for the benefit of its owners that leaves broken minds and bodies in its wake while catering intentionally to awful people.

I learned to read when I was 6 so I could tell what was going on in a Spider-Man comic book I saw at the drug store and when I got to kindergarten that year they were like “he’s gifted! We need to put him in a special class!” … and then they showed me math and were like “never mind!”

pretty terrible culture we’ve made for ourselves here

Forever lamenting Kathryn Bigelow's turn from fantastic, sanguine genre work to sombre neoliberal middlebrow.

Okay, but that is still definitionally leaning to read.

Very fun to use with real short story titles from Star Trek contributor Harlan Ellison. A+

Ten acts you’ve seen, female lead singer: PJ Harvey Wye Oak Lucinda Williams Mavis Staples and the Staples Singers Japanese Breakfast Rilo Kiley Speedy Ortiz Aimee Mann Screaming Females CHVRCHES

Actually Fred would be saying “WHAT THE FUCK ARE ALL THESE BUILDINGS?! WHERE ARE MY DINOSAUR APPLIANCES?!”