We watched a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” marathon last night rather than follow the election returns, but looking at the results this morning, I’m happy to see that the “red wave” stopped at the Florida-Georgia line. It reminds me of 2018, when Dems outperformed expectations — except for in America’s Wang, which I must now …
Saturday Open Thread: Let’s Do This!
3 Days. It all comes down to this. #WeWillNotGoBack pic.twitter.com/g89Ms9QZEG — Young Democrats of America (@youngdems) November 5, 2022 down in FL knocking on doors to GOTV. get off Twitter. make calls. canvass. do what you can to save the future. we are in the endgame now pic.twitter.com/odoztQgmOp — dengre (@denngree) November 5, 2022 This …
Joss Whedon Isn’t An Aberration, He’s The Same Old Same Old
Huh. I guess the Joss Whedon Rehabilitation Tour isn’t going well: Joss Whedon’s interview with New York magazine was many things: a complete denial of responsibility for the pain he caused, a self-mythologizing “woe is me” pity party, and a not-so-subtle dig at the people he victimized. Journalist Lila Shapiro gave Whedon enough room to paint a …
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INtaresting Read: ‘The Undoing of Joss Whedon’
Protip: Do not give an interview about how maybe you're not so terrible after all unless you have a basic level of self-awareness about how terrible you are. — OutOfContextQuoteHat (@Popehat) January 17, 2022 Spousal Unit and I have been re-watching Outlaw Star, a 1998 anime which gleefully chucks every adventure trope from Jules Verne …
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Respite Open Thread: When Johnny Carson Supported #BlackLivesMatter
The new documentary “The Sit-In” on Peacock tells of the time Harry Belafonte replaced Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show” for five remarkable nights in 1968. https://t.co/5EGaIVlUKO — AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) September 8, 2020 “Hiding in plain sight”: … While the Vietnam War was raging and civil unrest was convulsing American cities, TV talk show …
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Pop Culture Open Thread: Anime Suggestions for Lockdown
We all have ways of decompressing from the current dystopian reality, and one of ours is rewatching favorite anime. I know, I know — it’s easy to assume that ‘anime’ means interminable sagas about gotta-catch-em-all marketing tie-ins, space opera ultraviolence, or softcore porn for extremely niche targets. But that’s like judging ‘American books’ by what’s …
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Saturday Morning Open Thread: When You’re An Icon, They Let You Do… ANYTHING
Light the TBogg Signal!… Ten years from now they’ll be writing books about when God-Empress Shakira discovered the will to power. https://t.co/IPKnA20xEU — Starfish Who Had Fun For An Hour (@IRHotTakes) April 24, 2020 I’M SORRY, WHAT ?https://t.co/TbOc6PizC0 — Milli Lake (@MilliLake) April 24, 2020 … While Parton was not herself credited as a producer …
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