Derek Jacobi’s Cadfael gets appointed Devil’s Advocate to determine whether the recently deceased pope should be canonized, but if he is they’ll have to remove his organs from his secret lover. Setting aside that organ transplants weren’t a thing in the 1300s it practically writes itself.

Just spent 10 minutes explaining Yu-Gi-Oh! and I got through maybe 10% of what I know about Yu-Gi-Oh!, and I don’t know much about Yu-Gi-Oh!.

We sell some of my childhood favorite games at work, like Slamwich and Ratatat Cat, and they’ve been repackaged as “educational” and claim to teach kids probability. By that logic I can get kids into my illegal gambling ring by saying it’s educational.

When one door closes, someone throws a brick through a window.

I knew a guy in Michigan who was gonna vote for Jill Stein in 2016 and we got in a huge argument about it with yelling and cursing and everything which was pretty awkward since we were in the grocery store where we worked and he was my boss.

-THE STORY ABOUT THE STORY ed. J.C. Hallman (caveats: Frank O’Connor’s essay on Katherine Mansfield is ridiculously sexist and homophobic, and proto-Nazi D.H. Lawrence’s essay on MOBY DICK is entertaining right up until the last page when he says it’s about the destruction of the white race)

-Walter Benjamin ILLUMINATIONS -Kate Colby DREAM OF THE TRENCHES -Leslie Jamison MAKE IT SCREAM, MAKE IT BURN -Zadie Smith FEEL FREE (caveat: only once I get past her centrism and credulous fascination with Zuck/Jay-Z) -Dubravka Ugresic AMERICAN FICTIONARY -David Foster Wallace [any/all]

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I agree with all the criticisms of the superfan focus groups but only because who the studios should actually be listening to is me, obviously.

If I were a superhero I’d be Live Action Remake Man and when anyone said “We should make a live action remake of that” I’d swoop in and punch them in the face.