Arsenio FTW.

The Secretary of Straight?

Yeah, Adventureland was pretty great. Practically none of the specifics—the amusement-park employment, the post-grad expectations, the lessons in love—applied to my life, but it did a great job of capturing both the good and the bad of post-college aimlessness. The good: you get to hang out with friends all summer…

Ouch, that's rough, Pickles. I'll keep you in my prayers. Good observation, too, about how strange it is that art can dovetail so closely with circumstances, and how that affects our impressions of it.

Simon & Garfunkel's "I Am A Rock" was pretty huge to me, back when I was a much-picked-upon sadsack in middle school/early high school.

… And that mule went on to save Spring Break!

I've had a Charlie in my life as well, though she was never sufficiently interested in me to actually date me. Monkeylint's post pretty much summed it up: what I initially construed as her being interested in me was in reality just her default mode. She didn't really like talking to me, she just liked talking. As long…

"Searching for Bobby Fischer" really resonated with me as a kid. I was really into chess from the age of 5 to about 12, largely thanks to my dad, and that movie gets the culture of youth chess exactly right: the nerves and pressure of tournaments, the cutthroat nature of some of the kids and their severe parents, and…

@The Ads Sucked: Agreed. I'm happy that this turned out to be good, because all the ads I've seen for it were making it look pretty dire. Marketing FTL!

PRECIOUS

The Bridge on the River Kwai
It's good, but fairly conventional, for most of its running time. Then everyone converges on the finished bridge at the end, and all hell breaks loose, and it suddenly becomes something much darker and more cynical, and all the while there's the chugging sound of the approaching train in…

Rebirth: B+
In-A-Gadda-da-Leela: C+/B-

Really? McNulty's a Brit? I take it back (and am now even more impressed by his performance on "The Wire").

Unlike that Mr. Show movie, however, nobody is going to watch the shit out of this.

You're confused, La Pipe. That was Elizabeth Bathory, not Vlad the Impaler.

I still haven't seen "Into the Wild Green Yonder," mostly because "Bender's Game" was so bad that I put off seeing it. It was the first time in the show's history where I felt like the writers were lazily coasting on nerdy in-jokes. At this point, is it even possible for a show to plug its characters into a classic…

All I could think of whenever Dominic Cooper said something in the trailer was that part in season 2 where McNulty had to try to speak in a British accent to get into the brothel. Dude's just not very believable playing a non-American.

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Wait—what about Natalie from Videocracy, ricin? You really are a slut.