Well… the multiple-roles casting means that they're accentuating the weakest parts of the book (the pseudo-reincarnation silliness), but it also looks like they're dulling the most interesting parts of the book, which is the shift in styles (it all looks kinda same-y instead of genuinely different for each period.)

Well… the multiple-roles casting means that they're accentuating the weakest parts of the book (the pseudo-reincarnation silliness), but it also looks like they're dulling the most interesting parts of the book, which is the shift in styles (it all looks kinda same-y instead of genuinely different for each period.)

Well… the multiple-roles casting means that they're accentuating the weakest parts of the book (the pseudo-reincarnation silliness), but it also looks like they're dulling the most interesting parts of the book, which is the shift in styles (it all looks kinda same-y instead of genuinely different for each period.)

What color is that?  I'm picturing a nice mauve.

What color is that?  I'm picturing a nice mauve.

He hasn't clarified directly, but dream hampton asked him in an email if he was okay with her use of "bisexual", and he agreed.  (link)

He hasn't clarified directly, but dream hampton asked him in an email if he was okay with her use of "bisexual", and he agreed.  (link)

@avclub-ad45e11f2e88b8963920c79cd1d8755e:disqus : well, it's a fair point about Odd Future, but I think Ocean himself has already surpassed that.  Number 2 on the charts is pretty successful, no?  (And even before that, prominent place on Kanye/Jay-Z's album, so he was already a reasonably well-known name in hip-hop,…

@avclub-ad45e11f2e88b8963920c79cd1d8755e:disqus : well, it's a fair point about Odd Future, but I think Ocean himself has already surpassed that.  Number 2 on the charts is pretty successful, no?  (And even before that, prominent place on Kanye/Jay-Z's album, so he was already a reasonably well-known name in hip-hop,…

Thought it was a mostly average episode with some good gags, but dear god, the scene in Zoidberg's dumpster-home is one of the best things the show's ever done!  Funny, more than a little bit depressing, gross and weird, and somehow all of those emotional reactions balance out beautifully.

Thought it was a mostly average episode with some good gags, but dear god, the scene in Zoidberg's dumpster-home is one of the best things the show's ever done!  Funny, more than a little bit depressing, gross and weird, and somehow all of those emotional reactions balance out beautifully.

For someone with your username to say that is pretty funny.   Nabokov would have been considerably less kind to the novel than I am.

For someone with your username to say that is pretty funny.   Nabokov would have been considerably less kind to the novel than I am.

@avclub-12a6b31534819f646bd9bf5e8a99756d:disqus : right, the birthmark thing.  Awful, awful.  It's a novel with an interesting framework, but the resolution and explanation of that framework nosedives into amateurism and banality.  I'm really surprised at all the love for it here.

@avclub-12a6b31534819f646bd9bf5e8a99756d:disqus : right, the birthmark thing.  Awful, awful.  It's a novel with an interesting framework, but the resolution and explanation of that framework nosedives into amateurism and banality.  I'm really surprised at all the love for it here.

And since no one's weighed in on it yet, I absolutely love the extra track, "Golden Girl", cheesy synths and all.

And since no one's weighed in on it yet, I absolutely love the extra track, "Golden Girl", cheesy synths and all.

There's never been an openly gay R&B singer and/or rapper with even a modicum of mainstream success.  Cazwell's only a huge deal in that sliver of a Venn diagram where the LGBT community overlaps bad taste.

There's never been an openly gay R&B singer and/or rapper with even a modicum of mainstream success.  Cazwell's only a huge deal in that sliver of a Venn diagram where the LGBT community overlaps bad taste.

@avclub-b6295f9a8b2d34f30d97c042a431dd6e:disqus : In fairness, some of the industry people who spoke supportively about Ocean's coming out had been pretty disparaging toward the LGBT community in the past.  Exhibit A: Busta Rhymes, who swore he'd never be down with it, only a few years ago.   Exhibit B: 50 Cent, who…