Use A Mail Chimp
Why I often hate Twitter, and why I always love the Serial podcast.
Showtime, Synergy!
Disney Infinity 2.0 shows how charm (and a ludicrous amount of development and marketing money) always win in the end.
It’s a Good Life
Everything we do is to make our audiences feel like they’re the most important person in the whole world. And that’s a real good thing.
Train in Vain
Snowpiercer is the kind of weird semi-indie movie I’d thought had long gone extinct.
So Much Effort
A silly game from Nintendo raises the eternal question: why do LGBT types always make such a fuss every time they’re deliberately and actively excluded?
Homophobish
A year-old prose fart on Slate perfectly illustrates the difference between marriage equality and “gay marriage,” and exactly why it’s an important distinction.
Hello M’Lady
How Inside Amy Schumer and Comedy Central have taught me that I’m a terrible person.
Thoughtcrimes for $1000
What is, “A bullshit false equivalence that reduces the push for genuine equality to nothing more than wishy-washy moral relativism,” Alex?
How I Spent My Decade
Internet, did I ever tell you about the time I spent the better part of a decade watching a contrived, sentimental, raunchy, silly, and formulaic sitcom, and bawling my eyes out over it?
The Party of the First Part
The tragic hilarity that results when people take the term “social contract” too literally
The Curious Case of Tow Mater
Pixar sequels and another installment of “How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Multinational Entertainment Conglomerate”
If I Can’t Show It, You Can’t See Me
Somebody who doesn’t know much about music tries to explain why he loves St. Vincent