@Same Sad Echo: On the female side...how is Julia Roberts respected? She's terrible. Erin Brockovich was terrible. She was terrible in Ocean's 11. She was terrible when she was on Broadway. I don't remember which critic said it but when she debuted, but it said something along the lines of "as much as we want her to…

@dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: Dear lord yes. The dialogue was so contrived and forced with hipster-isms it really killed any pathos it may have had for me.

@buggeroff: Field of Dreams is an overrated film even if you like baseball flicks. It's popular amongst the kind of writers the Fire Joe Morgan crew used to eviscerate, which is telling.

@abrahamburger: I hear ya. I nearly got lynched at a gay bar once when I declared that Rent is a piece of shit. Which it so is.

@FavreFAIL: fuck. Hope that closed it. Can't edit on the phone.

Movie Hate DUAN (no flame wars)

@WashingtonForeskins: what everyone else said. If you're at a business casual work environment and can't take a sick day, then make sure to have an excuse for wearing a suit (like a landlord dispute) or change so as to not raise eyebrows. Check the better job out - believe me, no employer will ever reward loyalty and…

@ClueHeywood: High tuition usually equals insufferable students to begin with, in my opinion. Not to say that everyone who is an alum of a pricey/private school is that way (as many of our fine folks here are certainly not), but it is a noticeable trend. When I worked in DC, fresh graduates of Georgetown and GW were…

@Armen Tamzarian: Kurt Cobain was obtaining a gun license in Washington state.

@lauren_jo: Yup.

@chakrabs: Hah! Hilarious!

It is a Rite of Spring when ESPN's baseball writers engage in baroque pronouncements.

@AC_Greens_Virginity: Bank on it. I'm betting they go for 17 games and 2 bye weeks with 3 preseason matches. The second bye week would be enough to sway the players to take the extra game.

Brady Quinn, meanwhile, is rethinking the wisdom of his NFL strategy of not getting played at all.

It's no surprise that Sterling Stamos had to settle in court. Ahmadinejad has been trying to "philosophical differences with Israel" line for years and nobody's been buying it.

@FavreFAIL: -1 on the edit oversight...

@Body By Bacardi: In all fairness, Andrew Dworkin's ghost can only comment under so many different account names at the same time.

@rulesboy: I plan on de-clawing my dying cat so I can have something more pleasant to listen to.

@Body By Bacardi: it's been "common knowledge" for 18 years

@Tully Blanchard Enterprises: Hah!