Nice play, Otto.

phodreaw:

PEDANT RAGE:
Hoard, not horde. There's a difference and it's IMPORTANT RAAAAGH

Poor, poor Jazz.

Well, it WAS on ABC Family. Not the first place I'd look for good TV, but not the last—that prize goes to the local station that's always playing telenovelas.

It's his laugh that gets me. It's the hacking cough of a hundred lonely, bitter nerds distinguishing themselves only by their tepid politics.

Ah, OK. I didn't really keep up with either death. I read the Comcast obits and moved on, but that's probably because I've only read Slaughterhouse-Five and page one of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Were there really a lot of docs about HST? I don't seem to remember. There were a lot of obits when Vonnegut died.

I read that letter, and I hear it in the phony white-guy voice from Santana DVX.

I used to work at a movie theater. Too much stress for too little satisfaction.

I haven't heard any of their albums all the way through, but I've liked everything I've heard. And obviously Song 2 is awesome.

So do we only hate teenagers, or young people in general?

All I know is that everyone in suburban Boston seems to love the shit out of that song. You can play it in a crowded room and reasonably expect EVERYONE to sing along.

I keep wanting to suggest Burn Notice narration as a game at the improv troupe I rehearse with, but I'm afraid no one will have heard of it, and anyway it would just be a breezier rehash of Film Noir.

Mikey, if the NYT did that, eastern Massachusetts would destroy itself in the most anarchic ten seconds ever seen.

Who mentioned Elite Squad as a possible nominee for Best Foreign Film? Wasn't that the borderline-fascist movie that advocated military force in the Rio slums? I understand it's popular in Brazil, and it might even be really well made (a la Birth of a Nation or something), but seriously, the ideas in it are…