What is getting GOOPed? Is it like when the green slime pours on one's head on You Can't Do That On Television? Or does GP just say smugly snide things about me like she did about Winona Ryder? Or something else entirely?

I've said it before: I'll watch Kate Beckinsale in anything.

I'll join you, ba, in confessing that I love Troy despite how awful it is. And yes, it is truly awful. I think part of my affection stems from the fact that I first saw it dubbed into Croat, then subtitled back into English, while visiting a cousin in Croatia. Brilliant.

So, it's like Goop?

Worse.

Quirk, Sacks's write up of Temple Grandin is actually in An Anthropologist on Mars, not The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Hat is probably worth rereading, but if you're looking for Temple Grandin, go to Anthropologist.

Ugh, do I have to do everything around here?

Psychobabel, if you're a Gen Xer, we all did; it's practically required that you liked Reality Bites. If you're not, I don't know what your excuse is.

As I recall, in high school, "popular" was not necessarily synonymous with "quality" when it came to people, either.

That "retarded blonde guy from The Fifth Element" was Jean-Paul Gaultier, who also did all the costumes for the movie.

That's probably the yummy taurine, Riff. It's one rung above artificial sweeteners on the ladder of disgustingness. Artificial sweetener makes everything gross, but is still better than fake watermelon flavor.

Some flavors are just awful except in the original
Bubblegum
Buttered Popcorn (or any other kind of popcorn)
Watermelon

How about an Andre the Giant style sticker but with IES Chang's face instead? 5'8", 145lbs (I just totally made that up) IES Chang has a posse.

Then how come the only people dying from this are Mexicans? It doesn't seem like a very well executed plot.

Peter Hoeg?

Yup, I think Big Fish is the last time I cried in a movie theatre. The others have been in the privacy of my living room: Grave of the Fireflies, the Iron Giant.

No Les Claypool?

Nigel is overall the funniest, but McKean delivers my absolute favorite line in the movie. In response to Reiner asking how he feels about Nigel walking out: "I'd probably feel much worse about it if I weren't so heavily sedated, now, wouldn't I?"

A friend and I sang Sex Farm at a karaoke bar not too long ago. It got huge laughs from out group and a very few others present. The vast majority of the crowd stared at us, stone-faced and uncomprehending. I realized they were about eight to ten years younger than I and had never heard of Spinal Tap. Then, I…

Sarcasm
doesn't always work well when written due to the lack of voice modulation. But it seemed to come through in this article.