If you’re anything like me, you have a hard time believing that you were once on the just-cancelled Last Call with Carson Daly. But it happened!
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The title kind of says it all.
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Just when I thought Hip Hop had nothing more to offer, along comes a hungry MC like Chester Cheetah to revitalize the entire art form.
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Before the Fyre Festival was an epic flop it was an astonishingly stupid, impossible idea its founders sold with their signature combination of heavy-handed hyperbole, ineptitude and utter shamelessness.
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For the love of God, why does anyone think they can get away with doing blackface in 2019?
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Remembering one of the all-time greats.
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Listening to Still Dwelling, Neil Hamburger’s latest album of stone-cold bummers, prompted a realization about the fundamental nature of comedy.
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To celebrate the amazing Criterion Collection Blu-Ray of Elaine May’s Mikey & Nicky, which I somehow got to write the liner notes for, we’re giving away a copy to one erudite reader/commenter.
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The Pope tried to appeal to contemporary audiences by tweeting about Mary being the first “influencer.” It did not go well.
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R. Kelly’s many, many deeply creepy collaborations with hitmakers and newcomers alike take on a much more ominous dimension these days.
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