I started on Angel, you guys! (I decided to watch it in succession to Buffy rather than in tandem with it, for no particular reason.) So far, (three episodes in) I'm really liking it—though I think it suffers from its small main cast (though I understand that changes later on), forcing a reliance on somewhat…

I really liked Cloud Atlas, the book (and it served as an awesome gateway drug into Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night a Traveler), but I was wary of seeing the movie, because I felt like much of it wouldn't translate well—did you read the book, and, if so, how did it measure up?

My dad called them "the children formerly known as Boxcar." Far more accurate.

Narrator, I gotta ask, even though this is weird; your comments remind me always SO STRONGLY of someone I know—you're not a blonde and slightly balding 20-year-old, are you?

I was BORN in 1993.

I loved, loved, loved The Good Soldier. Textbook example of (spoilers I guess?) an unreliable narrator, but I also enjoyed the prose style, and imagining what Ford Madox Ford looked like in my head, because he was apparently super rotund.

That's my summer reading, and I'm SO excited.

Ooh, I just read If On A Winter's Night a Traveler. I'm not a big postmodern person, but…it was good.

In the three-quel, it's the Twelve Fruits of the Holy Spirit!

Nope. It's "Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets."
Trust me, I've had this shit memorized since eleventh grade.

Wait, guys say they've read Infinite Jest to impress girls?? So that guy I was talking to the other day who told me to read it might have been hitting on  me? SCORE

Yeah, I was too young—I would've been sixteen months old when this episode aired.
And it's not on Netflix, which is how I tend to find other shows that I was too young for at the time, and I think people my age are super unlikely to just watch random repeats of things on TBS or whatever, when it's so easy to find stuff…

okay, @avclub-7a0876314e2ccaf891625cb389169d4f:disqus , I see where you're coming from, and I'm as annoyed with the whole dude-keeps-trying-and-eventually-gets-girl thing being so overdone as I'm sure you are, but I don't think it's at all fair to characterize the Pam/Jim storyline that way.
For one thing, she's not…

He's older than Aziz Ansari, which to me seems ridiculous. Also Mulaney is waaaaay too beautiful to be stuck behind the scenes.

I was planning on doing that anyway, to make non-sex-friends, but maybe sex-friends will be a bonus! (Although, I go to one of those teensy liberal arts colleges where I already kind of know everyone, so my hopes are low.)

I can't, though! Antidepressants and alcohol do NOT mix well. But thank you.

I'm a straightish girl, and I am being serious (though not TOO serious, because one has to take these things with humor)—and thank you for your advice, although I'd not classify myself so much as being fixated on this (and I have no high expectations for getting more physical pleasure out of sex than I already give…

I'm about to be a twenty-year-old virgin! This is ridiculous! I'm in college, which I had always thought of as The Ultimate Place for getting laid. Apparently, for me it is not. I haven't even kissed anyone in three years! 
I'm not ridiculously unattractive! I'm like a four! Why do guys not like me??? IS IT MY OVERUSE…

"Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits and "Jungleland" by Bruce Springsteen are the same song, I've always thought.

Ooh, and I just went to the library and got a bunch of Tony Hillerman mysteries, since my friend got me into those. Yay guilty-pleasure reading!