Count yourself lucky.  Jezebel did a fantastic roundup of all the reasons he's a douchebag, and it's pretty hilarious.  Note he's angling for a reality show and more acting gigs.

Count yourself lucky.  Jezebel did a fantastic roundup of all the reasons he's a douchebag, and it's pretty hilarious.  Note he's angling for a reality show and more acting gigs.

I was dreading the Lochte thing, but they used him about as perfectly as one possibly could.

I was dreading the Lochte thing, but they used him about as perfectly as one possibly could.

It's nice to see those two characters bonding in a way that doesn't smack of showrunners forcing them together.

It's nice to see those two characters bonding in a way that doesn't smack of showrunners forcing them together.

@avclub-c0f8dbb69a6e71545459f9b88e475c47:disqus Not the storyteller per se (I'll disagree with @avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus ) on that point) but the text-as-text.  The storyteller may be important as the voice behind that text, but sometimes not: he's less concerned with things like authorial…

@avclub-c0f8dbb69a6e71545459f9b88e475c47:disqus Not the storyteller per se (I'll disagree with @avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus ) on that point) but the text-as-text.  The storyteller may be important as the voice behind that text, but sometimes not: he's less concerned with things like authorial…

Still not quite sure that would do it.  It may approximate some of the superficial aspects of the book but not any of the link between form and function.

Still not quite sure that would do it.  It may approximate some of the superficial aspects of the book but not any of the link between form and function.

@avclub-c0f8dbb69a6e71545459f9b88e475c47:disqus : Not to pile on, but I think this is where your comment may be missing the boat a bit: "The Library of Babel, for instance, isn't so much a story as the laying out of an idea…"  But isn't that the point?  A lot of Borges' works are challenging the notion of the story as…

@avclub-c0f8dbb69a6e71545459f9b88e475c47:disqus : Not to pile on, but I think this is where your comment may be missing the boat a bit: "The Library of Babel, for instance, isn't so much a story as the laying out of an idea…"  But isn't that the point?  A lot of Borges' works are challenging the notion of the story as…

Not quite.  It's more post-structuralist, which Borges is definitely not.  Very different animal. (Or at least: it's engaging directly with post-structuralism, whether one interprets as his buying into it or not.)

Not quite.  It's more post-structuralist, which Borges is definitely not.  Very different animal. (Or at least: it's engaging directly with post-structuralism, whether one interprets as his buying into it or not.)

A film version of HoL, even as a miniseries, is a terrible idea unless they're reworking the material into an entirely different beast.  It's a book about reading, and about our failure to put the inexplicable into language: I know people above are complaining about the academic footnotes and whatnot, but I found them…

A film version of HoL, even as a miniseries, is a terrible idea unless they're reworking the material into an entirely different beast.  It's a book about reading, and about our failure to put the inexplicable into language: I know people above are complaining about the academic footnotes and whatnot, but I found them…

That still is way too asymmetrical for an Anderson film.

That still is way too asymmetrical for an Anderson film.

"Almost scandalously overlooked" = It won the one of the most prestigious awards at the festival, for best director?

"Almost scandalously overlooked" = It won the one of the most prestigious awards at the festival, for best director?