Didn't these roles preexist this episode? I don't think Louie suddenly became clingy when he got made up as a woman. They've been there since at least when Louie wanted her to move in.

Yeah, I got an uncomfortable Bobby Hill vibe—or Bobby Hill as a predatory young man—when Pamela started doing her "man" voice.

I kind of thought that even if he tried to fight her, she still might have one. She had that crazy meth-induced psychosis that no mortal man, no matter how large, could have fought off.

As a younger brother who was subjected to being made up by my sister at the age of six or seven, there is no possible way I can consider this a sexual fantasy. Too much younger brother trauma.

You're right. He was, I guess, pretty much ready to be a Nazi from early on. And even without the Nazism, the nihilism in Journey is disgusting to me.

I've actually never read Trollope. It'll happen some day, I promise.

Godard had that Maoist phase, which was disappointingly common. There's a lot of European culture from the late 60s that I love, but honestly think is way too far left for my middle-of-the-road liberal politics.

It's almost even, I guess, but I'll give Dostoevsky the edge because he wrote more great novels. Throw in Balzac, George Eliot, Melville, Gaddis, Willa Cather, and Pynchon, too, if we're doing runners up.

I'm hoping to lure one of those old-timey gimmick accounts into a heated pop-culture discussion.

Dostoevsky. I'm neither Russian Orthodox nor a conservative 19th-c. Russian nationalist. However, I can still meet his ideas at a certain point, and he happened to also be the greatest novelist who ever lived, so that makes the philosophy a little more palatable. There's also Louis-Ferdinand Celine, who wrote the…

I might be wrong about this, but if one of those kids died, how upset would they really be? Would they even notice right away?

I'm just gonna say it: nineteen is too many kids.

I'm unhappy that there is a movie called Max, not to mention another Mad Max, but nothing about the young Hitler trying to make it as an artist.

So it's Chuck and Buck with maybe better photography?

If you don't follow @assistant2ellin on Twitter, you are in for goddamn treat. I'm convinced it's a Sean O'Neal pseudonym: https://twitter.com/assista…

Yeah, it was reported everywhere based solely on the TMZ source. Not that she's doing well. No one stays in the hospital for a month if she's doing well, but the coma thing was just a TMZ scoop.

Well, you had a good run. Shall it be hemlock or asphyxiation?

This has apparently turned out not to be true. So now you don't have to credit TMZ with breaking a news story. On the other hand, you reported an incorrect rumor they "broke"…

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One kid seems to really love Speedo guy…

That Robespierre is sure to develop a revolutionary TV program. We're all going to lose our heads over it.