Just picked up Jon Peterson's Playing at the world—which is quite the tome—and just started it this week. Also got Shadow Ops: Control Point on recommendation and am enjoying it.

This makes me sad because I love Jen Wasner's guitar work. She can really rock hard when she needs to. That said, I'm willing to give Wye Oak some leeway.

Do you listen to him on the Roundtable of Gentlemen? That's where I first heard him—funny dude.

Chu vs Zodiac Motherfucker in: FINAL JEOPARDY.

They forgot every character from the Timesplitters franchise.

Game the same, just got more fierce.

Like John Teti, Super Mario World was my first significant gaming experience during the holidays. My parents bought the Super Nintendo for me for Christmas, and of course, they had to set it up the night before, after I had gone to bed, to make sure it worked.

"Like a Virgin," Reservoir Dogs:

*Cut to end of dirty joke* "…and so she says, 'but you don't LOOK like a dog!'"

Let's not forget those brave squid in Oldboy…

With something like NaNoWriMo, I always start with the thought that I have to get so much done. My focus draws to the product. But as I get in the story, I often become obsessed with the process of the story I'm writing, and end up forgetting the "goal" that I've established (or that NaNoWriMo has established for me).

I'm sitting at 3500 words right now, but I've just started writing for day three. So far the pace has been good, with only one instance of getting stuck writing a particularly hard scene that I hadn't really thought out.

As Todd mentioned, it's about writing to write. I don't really have aspirations for the novel I'm working on (in fact, I don't have much direction beyond the first few scenes), but it gets me in a chair and typing on a schedule, which is itself a worthy outcome. My past writing experiences are mostly academic and…

BE RAPED OR KILL.

MF DOOM is not pleased.

Brett Dalton is like a poor man's Billy Campbell circa 1992.

Agreed. And it looks like next episode might actually be good!

Agents of SHIELD: As diverse as Firefly!

Isn't The Bridges that new reality show that documents the careers of Jeff and Beau Bridges and follows their struggles to stay close as a family while maintaining vastly different career trajectories?

@avclub-500e75a036dc2d7d2fec5da1b71d36cc:disqus Who do you think you are, Ratagast?