Category: <span>General Irrelevance</span>

No, no, no, no. The problem with She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was not simply that She-Hulk broke the fourth wall. That is the lazy version of the argument. The problem is not, “She-Hulk should not break the fourth wall because Deadpool does that.” That is wrong. If anything, She-Hulk has every right to complain that…

There is something deeply amusing about being told to “read the Constitution” by someone who seems to think reading is the same thing as understanding. That is where these conversations usually start. Someone throws out a slogan, a court phrase, a half-remembered civics lesson, or a clipped social-media argument and then acts like they have…

Autopilot is not just a machine feature. It is something we do naturally. Sometimes your brain does not ask, “Where are we going today?” It asks, “Where do we usually go from here?” And if the answer is usually home, then home is where your hands, eyes, and instincts start taking you. That is what…

There are some things I just have to laugh at, because eventually you get tired of hearing people talk like the headline is the whole story. Somebody sees a picture. Somebody sees a name attached to a group. Somebody sees a label slapped on a person, and suddenly everybody acts like they personally watched the…

I might be getting old, but there are certain things I see on the road that just make me shake my head. One of them is the person driving around in what is probably a six-figure Mercedes, or close enough to it after options, with all the windows down, the exhaust barking, and the whole…

The MCU already proved it knew how to build a universe. That is what makes the later problems so frustrating. Marvel knew how to introduce characters. It knew how to set up future stories without making the current movie feel like a commercial for the next one. It knew how to take comic-book material and…

Remember when everything was a Western? For a long stretch of film and television history, the Western was one of the biggest myth machines in American entertainment. You had the horse, the frontier, the town with weak law, the corrupt land baron, the sheriff, the outlaw, the saloon, the standoff, and the lone figure who…

This is, in part, a tribute to George Carlin and his fascination with the English language. Now, before anybody gets the wrong idea, I never met George Carlin. Everything I know about him comes from watching his performances, his interviews, his speaking engagements, and listening to the people who knew him. And I also understand…

There are many weapons in the world that rely upon strength. There are many weapons that rely upon skill. There are even a great number that rely upon magic. The Arrow of Befuddlement relies upon none of these. Instead, it relies upon the simple observation that most people dismiss what they do not understand. At…