My little brother got married yesterday to a wonderful woman he met while playing “The Towers of Jadri,” who is not taking his name and did not make me dress up, so I’m in a warm, expansive mood (part of that is the gloriously autumnal weather in Chapel Hill.) You have my permission and encouragement to promote your own blogs and articles and Twitter accounts in this comment section.
Why does The Wolf of Wall Street get a pass from the MPAA when feminist films don’t?
Yes, I will happily click on an article about the history of Fraggle Rock.
In case you missed it the first time around (which you shouldn’t, because I told you about it), Leslie Jamison’s “Fog Count” made Longform’s year-end best-of list.
On depression and academia.
Grantland’s “Sidekicks of the Year”:
5. Gary Walsh (Tony Hale): Sidekick to Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) on Veep
Buster Bluth would have been enough greatness for one lifetime, but Hale has proven he’s not a one-trick, two-Lucille pony on Veep, where he plays the sycophantic Gary Walsh. Gary (like Buster) is another strange man-child who craves approval from maternal figures more than anything else. Hale plays very broad characters with complete subtlety, making them real people. He was especially great in “Helsinki,” the season’s best episode, in which he was like a lapdog led to believe it could be a pit bull.
A story for R. Kelly’s defenders and a fan’s second thoughts.
I have yanked my cousin’s music video only because I have been promised a fancier version of it in the future! SHOULDA BEEN ON THE TOAST FIRST THING, people who missed it!
