It's wild that in a society with such a hair trigger for anything remotely suggesting paedophilia, Michael Jackson is still a popular enough guy to have a stage play AND a movie made about him that just cut off before the accusations so people can just not worry about all that stuff

Much like the accelerated production of the COVID-19 vaccine, the Artemis moon mission is a genuinely awesome thing achieved under Trump's presidency that he can never fully take credit for because his core base have a sub-medieval attitude to science and think they're fake.

I'm going to write a cryptid story that's real millennialcore today for the fun of the challenge.

Every time I log onto the website, the timeline is saying "BlueSky is dying". Either it's malingering or it's lingering painfully.

Interesting which lives it is distasteful to bet on, isn't it?

Why are we coming in swinging is my question

O, let me not be mad. Not mad, sweet heaven. Keep me in temper, I would not be mad. (Act 1, Scene 5)

And even with the vote they won't have the will. And if they ever develop the will they won't have the ability.

Learning that there is a successful British thriller series that transposes Medea into the modern day but ends with a filicidal fake-out so Medea can get a restraining order against Jason. And then there's a superflous second season.

I think there's a special creature who is a pillar for each of the three planes. It's elephants for the earth and whales for the sea. Great and wise souls who keep the world. There's a third one for the sky as well but it's still up there somewhere and we haven't found it yet.

"Kuzco's Poison"-ass attempt at intellectualism

The answer presents itself; most people aren't going places.

The writing sin I just can't kick is throwing the word "overhead" after "the sky." The kite went gliding through the sky overhead, etc. Where else would the sky be?

I cannot say that I have at any time had a great admiration for Mr Raymond West. He is, I know, supposed to be a brilliant novelist and has made quite a name as a poet. His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity. His books are about unpleasant people leading lives of surpassing dullness.

1930 - the more things change!

I look forward to hearing about it when it goes big!

I'm very sorry to hear what has been going on, folks. It was a pleasure corresponding with you on two anthologies.

Maybe I'm out of lockstep with most people here but I have a soft spot for Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke's lesbian pulp movies. They might not be Fargo, but they're not necessarily trying to be Fargo.

Just discovered that my first-ever Bob Dylan gig was derided in the newspapers as proof that he was past his sell-by date while I, 19 years old and absolutely entranced, had a divine time and have seen him 4 times since. Funny, sometime you're just tuned into different things

I live in fear of dying in a visually compelling mechanical accident that some mouth breathing moron with a thumbprint on his camera lens records on his phone but totally butchers the framing of.

Stop reading self help books. Get worse. Develop weird aesthetic ideas and publish tweets to audiences of between 3-5 people. That's the path

I gotta reckon that the relative incomprehensibility of this post alone is enough to deter most people

One aspect of the original Frankenstein that I haven't seen adapted is that the narrator, Frankenstein, is a very young man. He creates and rejects the creature in a fit of youthful arrogance and panic. His nervous moral cowardice is easily read as that of a man in his early 20s.

It's pretty funny that after a long career of mid pop music and self-conscious contrarianism, Matty Healy's most impactful contribution to pop culture has been to somehow break the brain of the world's biggest pop star.

Was Joe showing his character and decency when he facilitated a genocide in Gaza?

There's something very funny about knowing that an author will appeal to you basically exactly, putting off reading them for no real reason, and then coming to their work late and a little cautiously and finding to your delight that you love it. (Finally reading Sally Rooney)

Hot girl tummy issues... Boyfriend tummy issues... Does ANYONE around here have a good gut?

I think a lot of you could do with being able to sit in discomfort a little bit more. If nothing else. It'll let me boil you frogs.

I will say that uncannily fit 62-year-old Tom Cruise in his boxers kicking a guy repeatedly in the head shouting "you spent too much time on the internet" is an image that's going to permanently reside in my head going forward. Great movie.

If only you cared as much about Palestinian lives as you do about rabbits.

No, I think if we're talking about Biden's record, and glossing over his complicity in genocide, then that is inconsistent and problematic