JUDD APATOW: I felt like a father to everybody, and I felt like everyone’s world was about to collapse. I felt responsible, like I had to fight to have it survive so that their lives would be O.K., so that their careers could get launched. And so to completely fail was devastating to me. And especially for Paul, because this was Paul’s story.
10 years after the show was canceled, the actors and writers look back at their time working on the show in a Vanity Fair oral history.
A webcomic I just heard about and really enjoy: Final Frontier is a rock and roll send-up of Kirby-era Fantastic Four.
HT: Comics Alliance
Leading psychiatrists, abandoning Freud’s relatively nonjudgmental position, described homosexuals as “sexual psychopaths.” There were experiments in electric and pharmacological shock treatment, hormone injection, castration, and lobotomy. One site of such remedies, Atascadero State Hospital, in California, later became known as “Dachau for queers.”
In the New Yorker, Alex Ross has a moving overview of the gay rights struggle, going from past persecution to the seemingly rapid gains of the past decade. It’s important history to be acquainted with, even for those who don’t directly share it.
Sounds like “Hey, Joe, that’s a piece of fish and a little topping there, and some potatoes.” “Bidaydas,” my great-grandmother from County Louth would have called ’em. You know what I’m talking about. Just simple, basic, sitting-around-the-kitchen-table-on-a-Tuesday-night food. Nothin’ fancy, right? But, folks, that’s not the whole story. If you believe that, you’re not . . . getting . . . the whole . . . story.
“Now that I’ve cleared up that I do not worship a rape-loving deity…let me just reiterate, Mourdock 2012.”
Jon Stewart gives Richard Mourdock—and like-minded Republicans—the thrashing they deserve.