So many times I get this sneaking feeling like they have to be trolling us, because no one would write that.  But they are writing that.  And they're serious.  And that makes them even more lovely.

Mike, rest assured that there are plenty of us in the gay community that aren't on the right wavelength, either (although I haven't seen this, so take that as a qualified assurance.)  It's really frustrating to have a wildly diverse LGBT community, but not a particularly diverse representation on film.  Part of my…

It's hard for me to pick my favorite Chick Tract, but "The Execution" wins points for being so, so wrong.  All of the tracts are offensively stupid in their own ways, but this one manages to cross lines I didn't know existed.

The first read-through can seem a little indulgent at times - the first half is about a bunch of moody, unpleasant losers who get stoned and debate jazz - but it's still really, really good.  Then the second version opens up in some incredible, unexpected ways.

My favorite example is Cortazar's Hopscotch.  If you read it the straightforward way (chapters 1-56, in order), it's one type of novel.  If you read it the hopscotch way (including the extra chapters), it turns out to be a very, very different kind of book, and it calls into question your first reading.

Gawd, when the trumpets start blowing near the end of the movie, I was ready to stand up and applaud at the incredible audacity of the thing.  So the final twist felt like such a huge letdown.

Oof.  I've been coming to this site for well over a decade now, and I don't think I've ever read a review with such a vicious, mean-spirited line:

Happy to say that my husband and I are both pleasantly average.

Well, respect is better than nothing.

Your penance is to go and watch Before Midnight a dozen times when it comes out later this month.  Somehow they're a fictional couple and they feel more like a real-life human couple than people in these reality shows.

I knew a guy in college who was so far left, he made a leftist like me uncomfortable (to the point of thinking everything was a conspiracy and we should revolt and burn everything down and smoke pot yadda yadda)…

Ugh.  I was ready to quit the show for good, but you had to bring smoldering Tom Cullen on?  *sigh*  Fine, I'll watch.  You win this round.

"Joy" is exactly right.  It's effervescent.  I don't get that enough of the genuine article from contemporary music.

I love the "Ya know, we've been doing this for a while now" line in "My Bike".  Spoken like true aging veterans!

Most of the film, I kept wondering what it'd have been like with a Klaus Kinski in the lead role instead of Hagen's mostly bland Heyerdahl.

When hardcore conservatives imagine liberals, they think of PJ O'Rourke?  That's news to me.

@Logoboros:disqus : I understand the relativist argument, I just don't buy it - not because it isn't a sensible demonstration of the limits of epistemology (it is, and watertight), but because the "impossible to practice" part of it acknowledges, even if unclearly, that there's something wrong with it.  This was…

I agree with most of this, but while textual criticism is still back in the reader's court, it is possible to build a stronger or weaker evidentiary case about what is embedded there: otherwise there's no difference between the statement "Hamlet is about the inability to act" and "Hamlet is about space aliens…

Best narration: Election.

Hopefully they found a better way to choreograph it than last season.  No offense to the very deserving Sharon, but the "film all three versions of the crowning" meant that her reaction wasn't particularly surprised, or elated, or anything much at all.  "Hoorah, it's my turn to smile and wave like I won."