"Where do I stand on the -- on the WHAT? The "Transgender Question"? Well for one thing, sir, I recall the last few usages of that particular phraseology. A group of millions is not a question -- I have not yet finished speaking -- not a question, but a demographic."
"The Romans had their castrated priestesses, the Hindus their Hijras, but my god, let us take to the barricades because Uncle Al came to Thanksgiving in a skirt and pantyhose! It's the province of rubes. Hayseed reactionaries and the worst effluvia of America's suburban colon."
"And Chapelle! My god, Chapelle. Embarrassing as only a true great can become in his declining years -- I speak here with complete self-awareness; kindly hold your barbs -- as he tires of innovation and falls back into the soporific cushion of the lowest common denominator!"
"One joke stretched until you can hear its joints popping like some poor bastard broken on the rack. "Oh my car has pronouns, I identify as a bird, I'm trans-Chinese." The laziness of it -- shameful. You should see the transgendered roast themselves; there's true scorched earth."
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Mr. Welles and the president enjoy a cordial relationship.
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"I had not intended to mention Gervais -- one forgets the presence of rodents about one's feet so easily -- but the man insists on rearing up onto his haunches to squeak for the camera. A gerbil which has somehow mastered the projection of smugness. Repellent."
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Yeah, noted sweetweird literary landmarks Nevada, Stone Butch Blues, Detransition, Baby, The Haunting of Hill House, Wilding, The Books of Blood, Lost Souls, Supermasochist, Moby Dick, etc etc blah blah blah
"The McElroy brothers? Don't -- my god -- don't trouble me with that. Sexless fraternity dropouts failing their way upward with a string of projects one might charitably describe as a sort of 'Blue's Clues' aimed at a generation of young adults terrified of their own genitalia."
"My favorite what? Marvel movie? Have you got a favorite sawdust, Andrew?"
"Vicious little pastel clergy reciting years-old forum arguments between unintelligible virgins in place of fire and brimstone -- at least with the old inquisition you might learn a bit of scripture as they readied the rack. 'Tenderqueers.' My God."
The farther I get from the already dull experience of watching the new Matrix movie, the more I dislike it.
It's not Marvel, but that doesn't make it good. It has no themes. No good action scenes. No justification for existing beyond winking at the idea of cannibalizing a beloved corpse and then doing it anyway. Nice to look at, sometimes.
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