Captain Apathy:  Reminds me of the phone calls they picked up on season one of the Wire, which were clear exposition nuggets.  While they did say goodbye at the end of each call, the calls began and ended with no attempt at realism.

Captain Apathy:  Reminds me of the phone calls they picked up on season one of the Wire, which were clear exposition nuggets.  While they did say goodbye at the end of each call, the calls began and ended with no attempt at realism.

I assume he means Wes Anderson.  And yeah, the critique is fair given how much he's recycled his same schtick, but that will never take away my love of Rushmore.

"I love it" was not his best work.  Listen to his CD "The Top Part" and see if you don't feel the love.  Or just listen to this:

He's a really great comedian, the best I've seen in a long time.  He has a comedy CD, "The Top Part", that is just such fresh, polished, and yet still loose and easy comedy.  I can listen to "The best meal I've ever had" (you can find the bit on youtube) over and over.  Love this guy.

That is brilliant.  I want that show.

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Oh yeah, good to bad happens all the time.  Any movie with a sufficiently bad ending can do that.  What made Sin City odd is that it was the same movie all the way through, but somehow my movie "palate" adjusted so that what at first tasted foul ended up becoming delicious.

Watching Sin City I had one of the strangest reactions I've had to any movie.  For the first 30 minutes all I could think was, "They can't possibly be serious, can they?  This is a parody, right?"

I demand that you dedicate one of these to A Thousand Clowns, one of my favorite older movies, and one that hasn't even gotten a DVD release, so I was forced to buy a pirated version off some random guy on sell.com.

I'm confused.  Is she actually supposed to be 16?  Because she looks like she's in her mid-40s.

Ditto on Super Metroid for me. It had a really immersive feel that sucked you into the world, creepy abandoned ships, secrets everywhere, interesting puzzles, and best of all, you slowly upgrade so that there's a p0int at which you realize your character is basically a god now (once you get wave beam, screw attack,…

Oh no!
The reputation of Patina has been forever destroyed!

Communist Porn Star: More detail on that Maniac Mansion style game, please.

Hot Dogs
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To help those that are dumb like me. Do not click the link, it is not a british drink (damn you Justpassingby!). It is bloody nipples from marathon runners.

May: YES! I forgot about Curse of Chalion. Really great read. My memory may be off but I believe there's a third book she wrote in the same world. Not as good but still good.

Edked: Ha, it's funny you should bring Mieville up. I didn't get into it in part because I've had this conversation before on avclub, and in part because I was already posting so much.

HeroBoy, that's fair enough. I think that Gregory Keyes' stories start out just as strong or stronger as anything by Kay or Lynch. His main weakness is his inability to give a satisfying climax. But I think his characters are generally much stronger, easily top tier. Naomi Nowak has shown herself to be a weaker…

Ack Ack: I actually haven't read any Joe Abercrombie. I think I've heard his name before so I don't know why I haven't. It might be (and this is a terrible reason, I'll grant you) because the reviews on amazon only gave his book 4/5 stars, and my experience in finding the really good stuff is that it tends to rate…