The Useless Critic 2.0

What's the best date movie for today? Well that's sort of a rough question, isn't it? Don't you want something all smoky-eyed and noirlike for your betrothed?!? NO? Okay. My pick would be, since you asked so kindly, the Silence of the Lambs. It's an unorthodox pick, sssssure. But listen here, males of the reading audience:  no matter how bad and how awkward your date is with Jane from yoga, Ellen from Craigslist, Judy from OKCupid, Amir from accounting, you can just be like, clearing your throat:   bitch, at least I'm not going to eat you. PASS THE POPCORN, PLEASE.

Here at the Useless Critic , I think our unacknowledged philosophy is not to take things so seriously. Posts are lighthearted, for the most part. And they should be. Life can't be spent being heavyhanded about everything. And this is, after all, the internet. Which, to some degree, is still a big playground for people that refuse to grow up. (I guess I am grouping myself with them). However, I've been sort of toying with the idea of posting about the recent string of adolescent suicides in America (see here if you are unfamiliar), which are the result of bullying. Bullying is one of those trademarks of growing up anywhere, America or otherwise; it's bound to happen. No matter what. It's happened for generations. And I know it will never be eradicated, as much as it should be. People are people; they feed off the weaker ones and never seem to totally change. But fuck the toying with. I am posting this, even though I do feel vulnerable to some extent and a little out of s...