I believe he’s trying to criticize what he perceives as a hagiography, with a time-honored retort to hagiographies: dude, what about all the other people who stepped in to make X happen? Which isn’t unknown; how many times have we seen some unvarnished worshipping of Abraham Lincoln’s freeing of the slaves, without… Read more

I read this review the other day and left... confused? I think I re-read it three or four times, and I still couldn’t divine exactly what the fuck the author’s point was. Aside from the BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MEN?!?! bullshit, I think the argument was that we shouldn’t be such fans of Ginsburg because... Trump has… Read more

“...a way to rebel against a president who openly vows to fill the nation’s courtrooms with like-minded judges, most of them hostile to the concepts of due process and equal protection that liberals hold dear,” he concludes. Read more

Just re-watched Spotlight this weekend. Had to google Peter Canellos because I didn’t know who the guy whose ass they had to kick out of the room was. Read more

it’s just a picture of legs that cuts to an image of a man standing in a burning house and he has a goat head and his eyes are the black of the void and then it cuts back to an image of legs with paint on them and then it’s the goat headed man and he’s closer to the foreground and I can smell sulfur and then it cuts… Read more

I don’t like monograms because I don’t have a middle name and it makes me feel less. Read more

One day. ‘Til then:

I spent the last few weeks thinking of a tree that we used to have in the backyard of our old house. All those hours I spent under that tree looking up as the sunlight dripped like honey through the leaves. When the thin cold wire of time wasn’t pressing pushing tight against my neck. There was time back then. There’s… Read more

I’m heartbroken, too. Read more

Tommy Craggs gave me a second chance. I spent nearly three years writing for a different Gawker site, and I hit a point where I was just done. I couldn’t do it anymore. I was looking elsewhere, and my time at the company was up. I didn’t want to leave though, and in a passing conversation, I told Tommy I felt… Read more

One of my favorite moments of Real Housewives of Bev Hills is that first season when Saint Camille takes the gang to visit Kels while he's doing Broadway. He answers the knock on his dressing room door and when he sees it's her, he gives the most awkward hug and greets his wife with a half-hearted "Oh, hello......you". Read more

Then everyone gets plastic surgery on Nip/Tuck. Read more

Oh, come on, I kind of liked that hippo. Read more

That makes more sense than the plaque on the hippo. Read more

Tom, not sure if you saw this but it could be a good splice for Deadspin. Read more

Hey Tom, great post. Read more

As a member of the French aristocracy, I can assure you that we have been living in fear of this voleuse des bon bons for weeks. To know her reign of terror is at an end—that our precious sweets are once again safe from the rabble—is a relief beyond measure.

Oh, I'm sorry. I can't come to the door right now. I'm afraid that in my weakened condition, I could take a nasty spill down the stairs and subject myself to further school absences. You can reach my parents at their places of business. Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your concern for my well-being. Have a… Read more