I'm guessing he hasn't gone near the internet since the MightyBigTV debacle about a decade ago.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 30, 2012 5:21:00 pm PDT #4665 of 7329
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
DebetEsse - Jul 30, 2012 5:48:39 pm PDT #4666 of 7329
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Oh, Lord. I was there for that. It was...less than fun.
erikaj - Jul 30, 2012 6:12:27 pm PDT #4667 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
I could see that, but it makes him wrong, when he writes about it now, to have the same picture in mind. Although, of course, there are still stupid comments and people making up dumb names to use online...
DebetEsse - Jul 30, 2012 6:21:28 pm PDT #4668 of 7329
Woe to the fucking wicked.
It's actually particularly impressive that he's managed to hold onto the worldview given that he fucking wrote The Social Network. One assumes that research was involved somewhere in that process.
erikaj - Jul 30, 2012 6:36:01 pm PDT #4669 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
One would think...
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2012 7:00:10 pm PDT #4670 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I am watching True Blood with new eyes now, but...Tara. Is there no fixing her? Could she not even be a cool vampire? I read people complaining about how she was a lame human, and then she was briefly a cool but random bi MMA fighter, and that barely lasted. First she was a twitchy vampire, then a suicidal one, and then the worst poledancer (seriously--with muscles like those, she should be able to do some amazing stuff on the pole) that ever died, and now--drinking on the compelled chick from school--is that even rewarding? I'd much rather compel her to lie there and hate it. If she wants it, even compelled, where's the real fun at? Well, I hope she comes down and hates herself for it--do people remember after?
Lafayette is the only one I feel for on the show--and Jesus to a lesser degree, but there's no sense of worry there, what with the dearly departed and stuff.
sumi - Jul 31, 2012 4:17:52 am PDT #4671 of 7329
Art Crawl!!!
Tara could compell her to remember. Otherwise, what sort of revenge is that?
§ ita § - Jul 31, 2012 5:32:00 am PDT #4672 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The very shallowest type, and not very imaginative. The reason there can be fates worse than death is because of living with the knowledge.
Jon B. - Jul 31, 2012 6:41:58 am PDT #4673 of 7329
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
The Bernhardt confusion thing was only half-assed funny the first time, but you brought it up three times
The who with the what now?!
erikaj - Jul 31, 2012 9:14:01 am PDT #4674 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
The economist allegedly mixed up Sarah Bernhardt, dead since like 1910, with Sandra, comedienne and singer and Roseanne guest star, cause, you know, she's *so smart*, it's like living in a cave made of her own intellect. Or something. Isn't that fricking hilarious?I don't think so...apparently Sorkin does (Not as much as being an economics expert who speaks Japanese fluently and is yet so babe-a-licious it only takes two minutes and literally whipping off Clark Kent hornrims to make her a newsbabe. Even with Rachel Maddow redefining what a newsbabe looks like, really?)