Chris Rose, "One Dead in Attic"
is - by far - the best book about the months immediately following Katrina. It's a collection of his essays that appeared in the Times-Picayune during those weeks. If you want to understand what New Orleans was like then, this is the book you need to read.

Teti, you rock.
Your write-up is better than the episode itself. About the only worthwhile part of the show was hearing Garcia tear apart the designers so bluntly.

Not to turn this into a Zoidberg quote thread, but my favorite line in the show's entire run comes from Dr. Z: "Your music's bad and you should feel bad!"

Wrong about Eyes Wide Shut.
It's one of Kubrick's best films. Doesn't mean you have to like it, but saying it's a mess because the director has an "overblown sense of his genius" isn't exactly legit criticism. Kubrick had an overblown sense of his genius throughout his career and seemed to do okay for himself. …

It's Chris Sarandon and his male 'friend' opening up an antique shop. Doesn't get less threatening than that.

No:
"He also adds in an infuriating Spanish priest who seems to exist only to underline the hypocrisy of religion"

What about the gay subtext of the original?
Has any of that been carried over to the remake?

I dunno, it's already there in the first season, too. Wasn't that the take-away from Jet, that people who are hurt and defensive can make bad, destructive choices in the name of 'the greater good'?

I mentioned this last week, but my favorite Zuko moment fits right into your version of his arc: it's in the season 1 finale, when he says that his struggles have made him the person he is today, and he means it positively, but the animators linger on his scarred, scratched, bleeding, and bruised face. It's a really…

Not too big a fan of the hippies.
Too broad, even for this show - more cringe than funny. The episode had some interesting dynamics, but I preferred the time spent with Zuko and Iroh.

"Dersu Uzala Yojimbo Rashomon!"
I had no idea the Scottish brogue was really just a list of Kurosawa movies.

Ugh, Fester's Quest. Maybe the hardest game ever made, and not for any good reason: just brutal punishment with no real payoff.

Not a problem. I'd offer my services as a Russian interpreter, but I don't think I could I sit through an entire episode of this. How much do you have to drink to make it through the first commercial break?

"Vanya, a Russian bath house…"
Sure that isn't "Banya"?

Yeah, the book is actually pretty bonkers. Melville breaks every rule of fiction writing, and doesn't seem to care. First person? Third person omniscient? Random facts that happen to be incorrect? Forgetting about major characters and plotlines? Everyday speech or Shakespearean rhetoric? Who cares… throw it all…

@phodreaw: Dostoevsky's language is still very easily readable. The only major changes to the language are spelling conventions (for the better) that have since been applied backwards. You have to actively search for pre-revolutionary novels in the original orthography.

Chytilova's Daisies is probably the superior film, but it's much more abstract: Zazie is at least ostensibly based on coherent characters with clear relationships and a linear plot.

Doukipudonktan!

Oh, you had me until
you said you respected Eminem's barely warmed-over, uninspired bit in "Love the Way You Lie". Awkward flow, terrible rhymes, like he just needed the paycheck so he stepped up to the mic and shouted for a few minutes. To crib a line from another writer, it sounds less like Eminem than like…

Agreed. It's also (still) the best use of 3D in any film I know.