The "care-free whimsy" of being trapped in your own house with your computer (The Love I'm Searching For or Please Let That Be You) , or running away (Move On), or failed relationships leading to depression (These Days). How about the unbridled optimism of Pinkerton? Or the jubilant precision of Burn Piano Island,…

Everyone knows it's "Takin' Care of Business Yogurt".

One Rusty Warren.

And always with the pubes. So many pubes.

Rainer Maria! The pride of Madison.

Gravity's Rainbow is insanely imagery based. Of course the Slothropian chase/fight/fuck scenes are fun action vignettes, but even remembered romantic interludes, like Jessica and Roger's Christmas mass are full of beautiful imagery and jump-cuts of prose. Even the paranoiac descriptions of international chemical trade…

Ignaty, you're the best.

Yes. Yes. Yes. It drives me insane. That and the "the hatch door is shutting" klaxon that happens all the time to signify urgency.

It's more like drunk and lonely barfly harassment. Next he's either going to get into a fight or leave loud voicemails for his ex while covering his mouth with his hand. Either way he's been staring at that girl in the corner for way too long.

Eels up inside your guts, finding an entrance where they can.

You can eat at Garduno's any time. It's not great. I think I'd rather eat at Golden Pride (Pollos Hermanos).

I'm not sure it counts in this conversation as it's not electronic music, but gamelan does a good job of evoking tropical jungle and is cool, I think.

That image of Samberg is as close as anyone can get to looking like a Don Martin cartoon. I like it.

Everyone is forgetting that pregnancy legit makes ladies a bit crazy in unpredictable emotional ways.

I mean, that's a crazy thing to say in an essay about feminism.
I agree that having babies should not be the measure of a life, and that goes for everyone, but I think you may be jumping the gun a little on criticizing Leslie Knope. We have yet to see how this is treated. I mean, it's being treated as something that…

"There should be nothing political about procreation."

Bleat is the feminine bray.

It was Stealer's Wheel, right?

Also, none of this was backstory!

None of these characters are paper thin. They are presented simply, but they sometimes do unexpected things for real reasons. I don't know you, but I think you dislike that the show has hope and love in it.