All internet points for the holiday weekend for @avclub-f46294429e422f5da9b4d3dd0ca5b382:disqus !

"Dan, are you…Blade Rogers?"

Well, she can take solace in the fact that her own work isn't being turned into anything — this is a whole other group of people making a parody, and parodies are supposed to be light-hearted, funny, twisted-up versions of the source material.  No one thinks less of any of the source movies when scenes or characters…

I know a woman who shares a name with a porno actress, and in the last year, there was another woman with a similar name (last name spelled differently, but pronounced the same) who was in the news for something scandalous and tawdry.  My friend has developed a good sense of humor about it.  I think you'd have to.

Pretty good summation, @avclub-454a7bfd685393329597fdb7a92b7969:disqus , especially this part: "[Girls] has a mission statement to portray women in a manner where they ar[e]n't filtered through a man's viewpoint, but
their own.".  I've only seen the first season of Girls, so maybe it gets better, but I don't know how…

Man-link-hung-er.

What we need is more fantasy in our real-world sex, and more real-world in our fantasy sex!

That reminds me of a porn I heard about 4 years ago, in which a Sarah Palin look-alike answered the door, found a Barack Obama look-alike, who was there to deliver his "stimulus package."  I'm sure it was terrible, since they clearly started with that lame joke and "wrote" everything else to fit that.

My guess would be that since Dunham has a great deal of creative control over the sex in Girls, the fact that she's portraying it is completely voluntary on her part, and the message she's trying to convey is (almost) totally in her control.  That's just my guess.

Yes.  Sometimes I make a joke by deliberately misunderstanding the question.  It doesn't always work.  Like that time I called someone a racist when they asked about separating white and colored laundry.

What?  I read that in Diamond Joe Quimby's voice.

Well, there is a long-standing Italian influence in New Orleans, so maybe telling the story down there will help remove some of the automatic mob associations that come with a story set along the north Atlantic Coast.

My theory is that the Godfather movies suffer greatly if Vito is not in them.

It's always some guy working on his putts…

Someone needs to make a couple of Batman movies with George Hamilton and Antonio Banderas alternately cast as Thomas Wayne, while there's still time!

There's a fourth trailer out now.  It's all about Zod, and — HOLY FUCK!  It looks like he arrives in a big fucking spaceship with a whole bunch of Kryptonians!  How is Superman going to beat that?

Not so much any more; an aunt and uncle are about the only family link I have left with OKC.  I've still got friends there, of course.  Everyone I know seems to be fine.

Glad to hear it.

@avclub-d019eb089e65903455cc52308f00b997:disqus , if memory serves, you are in Oklahoma.  I hope you and yours are alright after the last couple of days.

Hey, @avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus I seem to remember you've got family in Oklahoma.  I hope they're alright after the last couple of days.