This Week - Dec 20, 2013

A lot of art, great art, is made by despicable people.

— Read the "Stomach-Churning" Sexual Assault Accusations Against R. Kelly in Full (Jessica Hopper for The Village Voice)

WTF is important and vibrant and still must-listen entertainment because Marc Maron knows how to do this to us, how to drag the narrative out of someone, how to find what’s there and bring it to the surface. How to get us to reevaluate not only the performer but ourselves.

— My Transcendent Podcast Guest: Jim Breuer Redeems Himself on Marc Maron's WTF (Brian Koppelman for Grantland)