I don't know, is that the kind of thing anybody who comments on this website would really take much of an interest in? It's kind of minor news, surely.

Like this? http://bit.ly/1KsiVrx

If you really want a way in to Vonnegut, you might want to try Welcome to the Monkey House, a short-story collection culled from his contributions to magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and Ladies' Home Journal, in the 1950s and 1960s - on the whole, they're much more conventional in style and…

An "album" is a recording originally issued in gramophone format, followed by the vinyl format, and subsequently issued in other formats such as Compact Cassette, Compact Disc, and increasingly in digital formats such as MP3, AAC, ALAC, or FLAC.

I haven't seen this yet (as it doesn't air in my part of the world), but I'm assuming it's basically Ugly Betty: The Next Generation, right?

Only if he did it in an alternate universe - he's a screenwriter (Raging Bull, Taxi Driver) and director. I think I'm getting him mixed up with someone else… some other Paul, probably.

I thought he died earlier this year, so I'm impressed he's making anything, really.

I don't know who designed that Doctor Who thing, but their Anglophilia has gone wonky somewhere over the Atlantic: tall, rectangular box-shaped things are for storing tea leaves in, not cream. (And Daleks are for salt and pepper, not sugar, but I'll let that one pass.) F-

Greenpeace, George Soros, and Teresa Heinz Kerry, amongst others. (Or so a 90-second Google search leads me to believe - I didn't really feel comfortable going any further down that particular rabbit hole.)

Indeed. I guess covering reality TV is technically part of the A.V. Club's mandate, but I kind of wish they wouldn't waste their time - most of it is just so much forgettable, totally ephemeral shit.

It was Kevin Smith. He's finally gotten over this whole Star Wars thing, apparently.

Yes! This is exactly the point, and the whole slant of the article kind of pisses me off - the lyric is not awful, it's doing exactly what Ure & Geldof intended it to do (as Geldof explained somewhere once, possibly in his autobiography). It's supposed to make you feel uncomfortable. And also: the new lyric is NOT an…

Fair point; I suppose I might think differently about him if I had kids. I'm certainly not going to subject myself to any Elmo-watching sessions without good reason, though.

I'd heard it was something along those lines, and I guess if a rival TV show is threatening your show's existence, you have no choice but to respond fairly forcefully. But Elmo is awful, and such a betrayal of the spirit of the original show. (Says this 45-year-old, who doesn't have kids and doesn't watch the show,…

Ok, seriously: what's so good about Oreos? I don't get why they're so loved. I mean, your basic milk-chocolate-covered cookie (e.g. Tim-Tams; McVitie's chocolate digestive) is always going to be much, much tastier than an Oreo.

One of these days, I'll finally get around to seeing this movie.

One of these days, I'll finally get around to seeing this movie.

Yeah, no doubt you're right. I basically just wanted to express my overall disgust with Elmo. (And I do think he's the perfect symbol, in all his manifestations, of what's wrong with modern-day Sesame Street.)

This wouldn't be a problem nowadays - Sesame Workshop would instead use it as 1) an opportunity for Elmo to understand how everything and everyone in the world revolves around Elmo, and then 2) sell kids some Elmo dolls and other assorted crap with Elmo on it.

Yes, exactly what I was thinking. Nice pictures, but who cares?