Blogs
The point of Dustin is, of course, to turn the battle between Dustin’s dad and Dustin into a symbol of the Boomer-Millennial struggle. Of course, thanks to Comic-Book Time Dustin’s dad is now Gen X and Dustin is probably a Zoomer, but the point is that Dustin is lazy and can’t hold down a job or find a girlfriend so that’s evidence that young people in general suck. But here’s a young person who works at Dustin’s dad’s law firm and wears a suit and everything, but apparently he still sucks because, uh, phones? Anyway, since it’s clear that young people in general are fully capable of holding down a job, Dustin’s dad might want to consider that his kid sucks because he did a bad job raising him, just putting that out there.
Literature
"Why must we punish our most productive citizens with an income tax? Oops, I forgot to tell a joke!"
— Parody of Mallard Fillmore, America (The Book)
Newspapers
She is the only woman in a gay nightclub. She goes into the toilet and cuts her wrist. He follows her in, sees what she has done... He asks her why she did it. "Because I’m a woman," she says, although she might more accurately have replied, "Because I’m a woman in a Catherine Breillat movie."
Web Original
Don't think of it as a novel. Think of it as a chance to retroactively win every argument you have ever walked away from.
Atlas Shrugged can be called a novel only by devaluing the term. It is a massive tract for the times. Its story merely serves Miss Rand to get the customers inside the tent, and as a soapbox for delivering her Message. The Message is the thing."
—Whittaker Chambers, "Big Sister is Watching You
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"In the tradition of the wacky-themed Bat-villains of the '60s comes Anarky, the character whose superpower is giving pedantic stoner monologues.
Batman: Yes, yes, I am thinking that whoever spouts such brilliant philosophy surely has a huge dong, no matter what Jenny Walker said in home ec.
Batman: Yes, yes, I am thinking that whoever spouts such brilliant philosophy surely has a huge dong, no matter what Jenny Walker said in home ec.
I do not want us to stop believing in heroes; only in heroes who think, as Sorkin's heroes think, they're truth-raining gods.
#RIPJKRowling trended on Twitter today, and not because she actually died. That hashtag trended after Twitter found out that her latest book is about a cis man who crossdresses when killing women. I know, such a completely original plot, and since everyone knows how JK (which for me, stands for Jesus KanYouStop) feels about trans people...Even Harry Potter himself cast a very polite version of the ShutTheFuckUp-is spell on her. So will JK be affected by pretty much copying Dressed to Kill to troll trans people some more? Probably not. But I think a much much better mystery novel would be one that gets to the bottom of why JK Rowling keeps her nose up the trans community’s ass and why she’s so obsessed with periods.
—Michael K., "JK Rowling’s New Book Is About A Man Who Dresses Up As A Woman To Kill People"
, "JK Rowling’s New Book Is About A Man Who Dresses Up As A Woman To Kill People"Web Video
It's time for "Deep Thoughts with Heinlein," philosophical observations on society and human nature jarringly inserted into an otherwise immersive narrative. It's like Heinlein is personally lecturing you, from just beyond the page.
—Red's summary of Stranger in a Strange Land
[MacDonald's] songs are essentially unreviewable because they barely even function as music; it's just a list of things that piss him off, listed off as dully and artlessly as possible. It's preachy. Like, no-one uses that word to describe the anti-woke squad, but it is; it's fucking preachy, and goddamn if I'm gonna be making the same mistakes as the guy I'm reviewing.
— Todd in the Shadows, explaining why he abandoned a review of a Tom Macdonald song and decided not to review MacDonald's music.
Real Life
Mailer is forever shouting at us that he is about to tell us something we must know or has just told us something revelatory and we failed to hear him or that he will, God grant his poor abused brain and body just one more chance, get through to us so that we will know.
—Gore Vidal, "Norman Mailer: The Angels Are White"
A recurring character in these books—variously named Hugh Farnham, Jubal Harshaw or Lazarus Long—is a crusty older man who's a wellspring of wisdom. "Daddy, you have an annoying habit of being right," runs an actual bit of dialogue from Farnham’s Freehold (1964). In the worst of Heinlein's later books, daddy not only knows best, he often knows everything.
