Your username!!! I love it! (former Western Pennsylvanian in the house)

Another comment to bump! :)

When the waiter brought out the tray of deli meat for Ron when he and Leslie were having lunch, I nearly died.

A newt?!

Heh, I'm glad I'm not the only one who was bugged by this.

Eh, you just hit a nerve for me. I'm a Ph.D. student in English as well. Reading Paradise Lost and studying Chicana poetry are not mutually exclusive. Having a firm grasp on the canon is great (I mean, Jesus, I do Edwardian literature and science writing; can you get more dead white dudes?), but the canon is not the…

Well said!

I call either amazingly stupid troll or very tricksy troll, since you use moron and idiot as pejoratives (which were also terms once used to refer to the mentally ill that have migrated into common parlance for "stupid"). Either way, kindly stop.

+1

Spot on!

This. So much this.

Linguistic smack-down! You, I like.

I also agree. He's just not funny to me. Frat boy humor at the Oscars = no bueno.

Ha, I totally agree. After I heard this song the first time, I looked him up and was severely disappointed. Tegan and Sara all the way!

I really liked their collaboration with Tiesto on "Feel it in My Bones," so this direction makes me happy!

God, Villette is THE BEST. So many strange and interesting parts of that book (Vashti! The nun! Lucy's spells!).

"It was beautiful. Like the Grand Canyon at sunset, maybe with a shirtless Paul Ryan crying loudly about the Green Bay Packers. That kind of beautiful."

Co-signed.

Well, my sister's softball team (public school) raffles off rifles to fund their out-of-state trips, so Pennsylvania isn't much better, apparently.

Are you me? Yay for being intolerable!