Perry is in. And I think Much Loved is right. Bush II rolled on a good amount of 'reasonable version of Republican sentiment' sentiment—at least the first time. (I don't want to open the box on what happened the second). Perry stands to pick up a biiiig rush of right-ish Republicans looking to 'back away' from the…

Horror and its contexts.
I'd love to see the Venn diagram of People That Revile The ICP For Being Ignorant, Morally Repugnant And Generally Beneath Them v. People That Have An Avant-Flavoured Passion For Takashi Miike. 40% overlap at the least.

Sgt. P, you are absolutely correct.

Get fucked, Bubbles. Quit dissin the rock show. We get new songs from Wesley. Who else could do that? WHO!!!!?

The consistency with which I've swapped out one for the other above really means some enema medicine is coming my way. Damn. What a cunt.

Cheer up, Pussy. You have maybe the best login name…ever.

I think the strongest evidence for Cookie's suspicion—shared, no doubt, by at least half of us—is that some clever little documentarian for HBO is just straight-up not going to beat the modern world, with its iPhones and YouTube uploads in a single click, to getting at least a little word out about dudes getting their…

Let me try my point earlier as a question:

Take away 'costumes' and replace them with 'incredibly bitchin uniforms that feature somewhat-identity-obscuring sunglasses and/or hats' and you have…well, anything from some highly motivated NOI cats to a gang of Hell's Angels to etc. None of whom have their asses kicked, their style picked on (to their faces), or…

I bet you were trying to draw me out right there. Get me to calmly insist that I have mad crazy belts, and studied with that grandmaster in Fresno, and am totally a quarter Chinese via some temple monks, etc.

martial animations looking iffy?
One of the many virtues of Airbender was the loving detail paid to the (quite real) martial arts that bent each element. The ba gua and tai chi for air and water, respectively, were really beautiful, and a rare treat to see done right in a pop piece.

Is it possible that Jon will not merely survive his wounds, but will resurrect as, like, a sentient, un-brain-fucked up wight? And, like, fight for humanity as a halfbreed…again?

Thanks, dudes. That trio of explanations—from funny and oblique to crystal clear—was so perfectly doled out, it's almost like you team-planned it. Much obliged.

Open Spoiler Request Thread
Could someone just go ahead and spoil the hell out of the end? I'm not gonna read it; just can't justify the time now that I GREW UP AND HAD KIDS since last he put a book out. Would love to know where we're at, though.

…what?

The Garfield 'Do
Am I the only one that thinks Andrew Garfield—who is, to be clear, great—has one motherfuckingly eye-popping tower of poofy-ass hair? It's like a monument.

Cool. That bugged the shit out of me, and I felt even risked spoiling the tone of what I thought was one of the best episodes. Wrong time for an awkward translation. Easy mistake to make, as the exchange is a slang deployment of the question 'do you understand?' But properly hearing Spike's reply clarifies the…

Fair enough. The arbitrariness of yeas and nays is rarely more foregrounded than in reactions to Bebop, I often find. Given how loudly the show declares that every genre trope and style you can think of will be on its menu, I can't really conceive of dismissing anything as being too off-tone to work. But it…

A point of translation
The last lines are poorly translated in both the subtitles and the dubs.

I cannot accept the relegation of the metaphysical horror in this episode, and the disfigured military horror of Pierrot Le Fou, to a case of 'style over substance.' Okay, neither is chiefly concerned with 'character development,' at least in a plot-centric sense for any of the Bebop crew. But dudes—those two…