Wait… why didn't it just get it from you. Who's supposed to call whom now?

Eh - This was mostly tongue in cheek since its been so long since then and seemed kinda random to see this comment on this article. I mean he did talk about Conan and Colbert and there was a picture of Stewart but it just kinda seemed out of the blue. Like you've been stewing since 1999/2000 about the change and just…

2000 called and it wants its edgy hot takes back. Also it wants to know how Bush ended up working out, I didn't have the heart to tell it so would you mind breaking the bad news?

Yeah but I'd rather be in the position to win and have the other team pull a miraculous hail mary out of their hat (and to be fair as long as you aren't playing the Packers & Aaron Rodgers you should be safe from this) for the win rather than just lose because I couldn't execute and wasted my time. I could see how you…

I totally did the same thing. I thought - oh a special Thursday edition of Block and Tackle, yay!

That was my favorite part - Hannibal's dry, almost antagonistic demeanor goes so well with PFT's naive exuberance.

I would argue you need more than a cameo from Alexis Bledel. I would say merely a couple appearances as a guest star would be passable but Rory and Loreali's relationship needs to be fully characterized no matter what. We can debate the amount of time Alexis Bledel needs to accomplish of course.

Dave Rygalski is quite possibly one of my favorite GG characters. I shipped him and Lane from Season 3-7, I never gave up hope that he would return from the hell Fox took him to in California.

I'm currently "queueing" on the website for tickets. I'm not sure if they are for sale yet or its a presale thing… Either way I'm seeing if tickets prices are low enough to justify seeing probably less than 1/3 of the Modest Mouse songs I actually like (aka Long Drive through most of Good News).

I discovered the existence of a Saturn Death Cult yesterday I was venturing into the depths of B.o.B.'s conspiracy theories. Also he believes that a subterranean master race of energy beings called the Vril live on the other side of our "flat earth". Its been a fun few days for me.

I love how they stretch the random noises literally as far as possible to make words. Like its not even a "misheard" lyrics sense of things but straight up - well he made a noise that exists in this word somewhere so it must be that word.

This was way more entertaining to me than it had any right to be.

Outside of Dallas Cowboys fans I think they are the one fan group that has the most bandwagony out of state fans. When I went to college in Kansas most people that were from Kansas were either fans of the Chiefs or Broncos with maybe one or two sad-sacks who picked the Raiders but I also saw an inordinate amount of…

I've been wanting to get into Pratchett lately but I like to read things in order. I was planning on going through them according to a Discworld reading chart (Rincewind, Witches, Death, and Watch are the main subgenres and I know there is some overlap) but would you recommend doing them in publication order? I've…

I can understand that you might be troubled by the fixation on rich kids but its not at all a glorification of that lifestyle - how far in are you? I would say that if you loved the Goldfinch you should give it another shot.

I definitely see that as part of it. I think him coming back to both Hobie and the Barbours in the sense of trying to reconnect with his memory of his mother is huge. I might be reading too much into it but I would even take the faux furniture further than you did. I think that its also because he doesn't really…

I went to her Wiki page to see some of her stories and figure out which one I should read and immediately clicked on The Dispossessed since she described it as coming from a Pacific Anarchist Tradition. That just seemed fascinating to me so to have your recommendation is huge.

Awesome! Thanks!

I've read some Atwood and I need to read more of her but I'll definitely look into LeGuin as well. Thanks for the recommendation!

I completely agree with your first point and commented as so above in another thread. I would go so far as to say its critique of the NYC wealth mindset by the end and we are shown how foolish and naive Richard's romanticizing was. I would disagree with your second point, while I don't think Tartt was trying to do a…