The worst episode of South Park ever is a Million Little Fibers.

I really enjoyed it just because it was a bit more light-hearted than usual. A lot of the time it's either a message episode (i.e. the financial crisis ep, which was awesome but did come across a bit 'TODAY, WE AT SOUTH PARK WILL BE ADDRESSING THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN. ANALYSIS, RESPONSES AND JOKES TO FOLLOW'), or…

You'd think Woody Allen would be delighted to be linked in the minds of millions with images of scantily clad jailbait.

Because that's why he got into cooking in the first place, Collings!

ARTHUR!
Man, first time I saw it, I cracked up really embarrassingly at work because I was totally unprepared for how fucking funny it was.

Kyle's usually the voice of reason, so I guess the message was that stopping spending in the middle of a recession is a retarded thing to do.

I think they did a pretty decent job of summing up the consolidated debt obligation fiasco, bits of debt being sliced off and turned into securities where there was no decent way of monitoring them etc.

I fucking hate imeem. Back in the day, the av club would either have a full track or nothing at all, now it seems to be a 30 second clip more often than not. Lame.

This write up makes me want to go back to the book. the plot later on sounds really interesting, but I read some of those extracts and I remember why I stopped.

Marvellous…
and what are the av club member's ham radio call signs?

I love All Tomorrow's Parties
It's verrrry pseudy though.

Albums I shout from the rooftops = hated by my friends
Really got into Sunset Rubdown last year, thought Random Spirit Lover was amazing. Went to All Tomorrow's Parties, utterly convinced my friends would be raving about them by the end. Two songs in, my friends go "We're probably going to head back to the chalet. Or…

x 2!

Good point, the whole things ripe for some whacky onstage collabs.

My two favourite news sources are the BBC (government funded), and the Guardian (funded by a charitable trust, major loss maker for the most part), both of which still fly the flag for investigative journalism.

Thing is, online journalism is entirely dependent on ad revenues, because people don't associate online content as something they pay for. It nearly killed salon when they tried to switch to being a pay site.

But what do we read when we're high? The jokes on match boxes can only take us so far.

Hey man, if it's any consolation, I was talking to my interviewer at a journalism job agency (My last employer closed their London office because of how journalism's doomed and we're all going to die etc), and he said that online journos end up making loads more money in the long run.

Really didn't go for Falling Man. I dunno, 9/11 seemed to short circuit his analytical skills a bit. Looking forward to the inevitable bittersweet satire of internet celebrity at some point though.

Just wanted to break the flow to say that one of my absolute favourite things is about the av club comment boards is that whenever a Simpsons quote comes up it kicks this kind of thing off, and it reminds me of how good peak-era Simpsons was, and improves my day in a small but genuine way.