

Surprise! The Internet Missed the Point of The Ed Gein Story (But more importantly, the Birdman was a famous bully!)
Although usually level-headed and hardly ever prone to instant uproar, the internet uncharacteristically has a lot of nonsense to say about Monster: The Ed Gein Story . I finished watching the miniseries last night and the whole time, I couldn't help but think about all the complaining I'd read on the internet about how much artistic license Ryan Murphy & Co. took with telling the story of Ed Gein's life. But I'm not here to do one of those "What they got right and what they
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Is Blazing Saddles My Face/Off?
I watched Blazing Saddles (1974) for the first time yesterday and I am officially shook. It is still considered one the greatest comedies of all time to this day, so I expected to be entertained and looked forward to how boldly it tackled race and social issues for its era. But instead, I was just too distracted by the constant barrage of racial slurs. Photo by Warner Bros./Getty Images - Image courtesy gettyimages.com Look, I get the historical context. In 1974, Mel Broo
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Meanwhile... on The Weather Channel...
Jim Cantore Confuses the Hell Out of Colleagues Starts Spouting Seemingly Nonsensical Tales About Shark Oil In what can only be...
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Stop Saying "In These Uncertain Times" Before I Lose It
It was fine at first, and I myself am certainly guilty of using phrases addressing the time we were going through in March as uncertain, unprecedented and confusing. Consistently having CNN on all day has not only left such an imprint that you can see the outline of the red banner on my screen when the TV is off, it’s also the reason I’m usually tuned in to the goings-on of the world fairly ahead of schedule. In early March, with my European in-laws having invaded my house, I
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Get Your Shit Together, People.
We gave him our money, we bought the T-shirts, pinned the pins and stuck the stickers. We even attended a rally just so we could shake hands with that ridiculously capable dreamboat known as Mayor Pete. But after Iowa & New Hampshire, I was all about Klobuchar. I'd loved her since her speech made me cry with hope while announcing her candidacy in the snow. Then South Carolina happened. That night, I was decreeing to an audience of a single human and one dog - neither of who
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How I Made Danny Glover the Biggest Star on Earth
I'm trying to think of the minimum age you would have to be to get any enjoyment out of this post... But instead, let's just say that if...
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