@avclub-56dfc41867dc4d05e285222c24c4e7c2:disqus if anyone else saw healy duck outdoors during the pagent and is willing to come forward, piper also has a pretty effective lawsuit against the prison for failing to intervene in the fight. but, yeah: self-defense is also a pretty well-established argument. plus, if she's…

dump it in a bucket of piss and get an NEA grant!

not to speak ill of the dead, but i always thought robert asprin's genius was convincing both publishers and the book buying public that his short stories you could read in an afternoon should command the same prices as an actual paperback novel five times the word- and pagecount.

i don't think this book was published in 1983 but i actually have no idea when it was published so this is as good an opportunity as any.
 
does anyone know the title of, or the author who wrote, a book about a guy who discovers he can shapeshift and is transported to an alien planet? i don't remember what the purpose…

i tried re-reading On A Pale Horse about two years ago* and had pretty much the same reactions and it made me wonder: what the fuck was wrong with all the adults in the 1980s, that this was bestseller material? i've wondered about other artifacts of my childhood - like how the fuck The A-Team was a television…

i've noticed that line before too and i always read it as indicative of his bullshit fake empathy - he says something later to jon about how he really made himself feel all those deaths but i don't buy it: he cops to killing half of new york because it was all part of his big plan but also because it's just a…

i had enough other problems with the movie, such as the fetishisation of the very violence the book was criticizing, that i was already too pissed off by the movie to care much about whether the ending game plan was different - i already disliked the movie intensely by that point.
 
but here's the thing about the giant…

Dr. Begbie!

I always catch myself thinking of her as Puxatawny.

i haven't followed the commentary or media on this show very closely but i've been wondering: has there been any explanation for why the show has departed so radically from the book? i mean, aside from using the general concept [a dome surrounds a small town] and recycling some of the names and general character…

my ex-wife went to grade school with a kid named Phil McCraken and she didn't understand how horrible that was until i pointed out the many, many horrible things kids will say about you when your first name is "fill" - that his parents would pair that with something that sound like "my crack in" spoke to me of either…

wow… nerds didn't look like that when i was a kid.

i don't know how umlauts work; wouldn't that change the pronunciation to "fohgs"?

maybe they'll cast michael buble as anti-andy dwyer and they can have a velociraptor stalking him? or just make him a real secret agent - that'd work, too.

i loved it when the whole crazy mob went hunting in the woods and donna freaked out about being hunted by the predator - that shit was hilarious.

i was constantly distracted during these eps 3&4 by trying to figure out who pornstache reminded me of… about halfway through the episode where he was tossing shit around their cell, i paused the screen and asked my special lady friend if he wasn't the dude on the docks from S2 of The Wire, nicky. she thought about it…

there are any number of scenes in The Wire that made me and my special lady friend laugh out loud, for so long and hard that one or the other of us would have to back up the DVD to catch dialog we'd missed… but i don't think anyone considered that show a comedy.
 
"I'm just a humble motherfucker with a big-ass dick."
"You…

"I realize we're seeing backstories from a small sample size of the
population, but I'm pretty sure that most in prison are simply people in
poverty (mostly black and Hispanic) busted for doing crime, and who had
over-worked PD's handling their defense. I realize those don't make for compelling back stories, but the…

yeah, that lady detective on The Killing is a pretty prime example of clothes. makeup, etc - the show kinda goes out of it's way to make her seem normal and plain jane but five seconds on google shows that, with some eyeliner and a designer dress, she's your typical hollywood knockout.

those comments casey makes about "his show" and what not? never disliked him more… although his crack about arguing in front of "the help" was close. i'm not saying casey is evil or anything like that, but he certainly is self-centered and entitled - and not even the dressing down [ugh, not a pun] he got from Monica…