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If You’re Mad At Bill Maher For What He Said About Comic Books, Come At Me

Let’s wade into some more controversy with the latest Internet temper tantrum: Bill Maher’s remarks on comic book fandom after the death of Stan Lee. While his timing is admittedly tone-deaf, his impression is spot on, however poorly articulated. I crack into the nut of the matter: toxic fan bases.

Don’t you hate it when you’re just enjoying some work of media just because you happen to like it, and some raving idiot out there has to ruin it for everybody? That’s what we have here.

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New At 366Weird: The Movie I Never Dared Pitch For The List!

After all these years as a staffie at 366WeirdMovies.com, the list is finally filled! And so it is now safe for me to utter The Movie Which I Dared Not Name – a film so bad, it drives celebrated Chicago film critics to fits of live televised rage.

I got to thinking about it via GoodBadFlicks – one of my favorite YouTube review channels – and their heartwarming defense of one of my favorite weird movies, Nothing But Trouble (1991). What the hell, why not embed that here:

Nothing But Trouble was my veto-proof nominee for the list of weirdest movies ever made, and I’ve caught a lot of flack for it, though everybody has to admit yes, it’s weird. My point (and it’s echoed repeatedly on the site) is that a movie doesn’t have to be good to be weird.

 

New at 123ish: Star Wars Conservative, Star Trek Liberal

If the Star Trek franchise paints our future under the Federation as, to quote one editorial, “Bernie Sanders on steroids,” then where does that leave competing nerd franchise Star Wars? Under the oppressive thumb of a big bad authoritarian Empire or under the slightly-less-crushing domain of a centuries-old religion guarded by mystics in drab cloaks carrying funny colored sticks, that’s where!

How I came to my epiphany: Star Trek Is For Liberals, Star Wars Is For Conservatives. Let’s see how many nerds I can piss off at once!

 

New Post At 123ish: Leave The Star Wars Holiday Special Alone!

You judgemental, mean-spirited geeks pushed me and pushed me year in and year out. And I finally snapped. This is one of those nerd-rage rants that have been kicking around in my slush folder for years, and it’s finally found a home.

Leave The Star Wars Holiday Special Alone! If it’s that bad, it’s still no worse than the rest of Star Wars.

UPDATE Called it!

That Time My Pan Review Got Quoted On A Movie Poster

It’s scary how fame works. You can strive for it all your life and die forgotten. Or you can live in the Information Age, when you get suddenly famous at a moment when your guard was at its lowest. Here’s to all the people out there who are frantically grappling with a problem and looking to others for help, but all they see are people pointing phones at them.

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