How did he earn that "Good Kid Award"? He is standing outside in a tornado, which is pretty much the opposite of what they tell you to do. Was it some cruel person's idea to give him the award FOR standing outside? Who lured him out there and convinced him it was a good idea?

Cusack's made some unfortunate career decisions, but I've always liked the guy. He's sort of like Giamatti in that he seems most at home in a sad-sack, overgrown-teenager sort of role. The sort of ineffectual loser described in this article. I may actually watch this film now.

Are they the Boxmasters or the Boxcutters? They're called both in the above article and I'm too lazy to find out by looking up the Thornton interview.

"Yahoo Serious Festival?"

Kerouac, that's as apt a description of Allison as any I've heard.

My brother can't count toothpicks super-fast or memorize the phone book though. He's just really good at math and socially retarded.

OTAQ - I feel the same about MacFarlane. My main problem with him is that he insists on voicing like 97% of the characters on his shitty shows, but he only knows how to do like 3 voices, so they all sound the freaking same.

Asperger's patients are usually higher-functioning than those with autism, so take heart.
I mean, my brother has it, and he dropped out of the University of Michigan, where he had a full-ride scholarship, because he didn't want to talk to his professors or classmates anymore! And moved to Wisconsin, where he now deals…

I am well into my (useless but interesting) Psych major and can assure you that people still giggle at Asperger's even after they've been reading about it, writing papers on it, and lecturing over it for years. And I always try to take the high road and not giggle, but fall victim too. It's inevitable. ASS-BURGERS!

I'd like to note I was being facetious with my previous comment, in case anyone thought I was retarded enough to actually believe there are no black comic book readers.

Persia, we know that article can't be accurate, because there are no black comic book readers.

"Titty baby" is a big phrase here in Texas, but that's more directed at the kid than the mom, of course. I'd never heard it til I moved here but I guess it could enjoy a more widespread usage than I'm aware of.

Oh, yeah! I forgot that she was Femputer! Man, one more reason to miss the old broad.

You and me both, nottheradio. You and me both.

I tend to agree, Fyodor - with the exception of David Cross. I love his stand-up CDs. One more dorky thing I quote from, and no one knows what I'm talking about.

Bucky, now you've got ME laughing.

Yes, Tristiac. I'd forgotten that one, it's such an old episode. When I first saw it, around the time it aired originally, I was a wee lass just beginning to try to understand death. Forgetting entirely that it was a cartoon and Homer would surely live, I got caught up in his last rituals and cried like a baby.
I also…

In the book version of Anne of Green Gables, when Matthew dies, always made me cry like a baby. I am a wussy. I can't remember the film series well enough to know if they really play it up there like they do in the book.
Also, Mufasa's death in the Lion King. I always had to fast-forward past it when I watched it on…

Hoffman is a fine, fine actor. "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" is a good sucker punch, especially when Dad realizes everything Phillip's been up to.

I cry at the end of V for Vendetta EVERY SINGLE TIME. I know a lot of people think the film isn't very good, but when all the protesters take off their masks and it's revealed that the dead are among them…it's like the end of Les Miserables, when Valjean and Fantine and the other dead come back to sing of a time we'll…