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Being black and queer in today’s America requires a bit of dreaming of utopia just to walk down the street.
Lurkers, cruisers, parkers, and blockers.
Will Self contends the form has become a "skeumorph," a mere cipher of what it once was.
Laughs are rare, but maybe it can make you a better person.
It was back in the early 1970s, I was in my teens, and I went from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin to New York City.
They smile funny, and ceaselessly flog themselves in an attempt at redemption.
Yeah, kind of, I guess.
Why do so many white journalists consider him a genius?
The hit Hulu show is a terrible rhetorical framework for discussions of modern politics.
Lucky library rentals and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 1.
Demonic cults and Satanism.
Playing parlor games with the recently deceased.
There are things more twisted than Riggleman.
Some of Brooker's ideas can be followed like trails into recent quandaries.
His films rarely have moments of peace and unity.
The Bling Mac dropped off radar.
Leonardo may have sexually abused a young boy.
How not to be responsible with great power.
Still watching shows like a dumb old idiot? Stop!
Urgh…can’t separate…realities…
Steely Dan and Godard affect the Victorian era.
The Boston Red Sox are charming, just like John Waters.
A chatterbox conversation in Baltimore with two longtime friends, no politics allowed.
John McCain wasn’t an American hero. Nor was Aretha, but she was 100 times more fun.
A bizarre, hallucinatory voyage into the minds of very average and very insane Americans.
A futile thumbs-down to Uber.
Baby Boomer guilt, especially among the wealthy, doesn’t wash.
I’ve never seen a Star Wars movie. So what?
Below, one of four Russian posters designed by Yuri Bokser and Alexander Chantsev shortly after the ban on the franchise was lifted in 1990. More at the BBC. Via Metafilter.
Intentionally? Hard to say. More at The AV Club.
