re: dork fantasies

Anyone have any insight on the accuracy of the Sioux stuff?  Or what battle they were referencing? Clueless savages "running at us with clubs" doesn't exactly sound like Sitting Bull.

But Sex and the City wasn't a series about trying to succeed as a writer, much less a show aiming to give you a voyeuristic peek into New York's publishing industry.

Yeah, I think Noel pretty much had it pegged.  More about fanboys hating any kind of change.

If you think only white people love The Wire…

How can I take back my "liked" (which I accidentally clicked while meaning to hit reply and say that this was one of the stupidest things I've ever read on the internet)?

how can this show veer so quickly between brilliant and cringe-inducingly bad?  jesus, that pizza dance was horrible.  the joke itself was tired and unbelievably sitcom-y.  then the execution…

Whoever wrote the entry on Robert Johnson needs to read Elijah Wald's book.  Johnson is influential not so much because he "set a template" but because a later generation misunderstood his work (albeit creatively).

Yeah, it looks nice, but that's kind of the problem.  The show is set in New Mexico only so that the characters can do stuff in the desert and it'll look cool.  But there is zero sense of the actual place.  I think maybe they ate Lotaburger in one episode.

To me, the first season of the show felt like a sort of mass market version of a David Simon series.  Instead of drug dealing, we're going to see how the institutions that make up ny's fashion industry function by following this group of characters' personal dramas.  The problem is that the show tries to do this by…

And this marked the first time in history a classic album wasn't immediately recognized upon its release.

Shouldn't the gay father have a bit more perspective on the intersection of parenting and gender performance?  Mitchell is still burdened by his father's normative expectation of stereotypically masculine behavior, yet his only worry is that he won't be able to adequately instill that same anxiety in his own son. …

Sorry to feed to trolls, but I couldn't help remembering this David Simon interview:  "On the other hand, are you measuring it by asking, 'Did
I see a gun put to this person's head? Did I see them raped? Did I see
them wreck their car drunkenly and end up in the hospital? Were they
put on trial for their life? Were…