…way more simplistic than everyone else, but I thought it was, uh, doors. The dude mentioned doors at the beginning and every segment started with a door being opened

Really, Yoda should speak in prose too. He's of the same archetype of Shakespeare's clowns who are actually the most intelligent and textually aware characters of their respective plays. Remember that his entrance in Episode IV is comedic.

Actually, Richard II is written entirely in verse. But it had a purpose there: the central characterwas a tyrant with the soul of a poet, thus the play itself is under the authority of poetry. If this really is all in meter, then it's pretty inaccurate.

I'm not sure about funny, but it's definitely lively and colorful at points. It's not a fast read but it's not a slog, just something you take in at your own pace and don't realize how impressive an accomplishment is until after you've finished.

The best I saw was when someone told a firstier to "die of CancerAIDS in a bear fire," the latter half of which really didn't gain much longevity.

Let The Great World Spin is one of my favorite books of the past few years. I feel like it was overshadowed by A Visit From The Goon Squad, which had a similarly interlocked and sprawling feel but didn't really delve as deep or get as complete a portrait as McCann's book did. I'll definitely be giving this a look.

I've always seen Reggie's non-musical comic persona as being really exaggeratedly naive and innocent. I can't decide if that would fit really well or really poorly.

I've noticed that neo-nazis on the internet use the term "naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews" to refer to, I think, what they see other people as seeing them as? Like if you pointed out that they said something anti-Semitic they'd say something like "I knew the leftist sheeple here would call me a…

He's… I don't want to say an acquired taste, because you'll know in thirty seconds whether you love him or hate him. Still, I'm surprised that you liked him in one thing but not another. He seems pretty single-speed. That speed being "having taken a lot of it."

@avclub-c6447300d99fdbf4f3f7966295b8b5be:disqus Wasn't Buffy's first season produced like this? And as a result far more inconsistent tonally uneven than the rest?

You know, I'm pretty liberal myself, but I'm pretty sure Travers just evaluates works of art based on the degree to which they depict America as a capitalist hellhole.

Yeah, I think that for an anti-drug narrative to work on a didactic level it needs to acknowledge the reasons that people find drugs appealing so that audiences can recognize those impulses for what they are and learn to avoid them.

Everyone talks about how disturbing and upsetting Requiem is. I thought the parts with the mom were sad because you see her downfall, but Jared Leto and his friends are heroin addicts from the beginning, and that's basically what defines their characters. There's no real arc with them. (Of course, that was three years…

I've never listened to the Sklar brothers but twins terrify me so I choose to dislike them.

This could sound decent if some attention were given to rhythm. Also I wanted to hear from the one kid that actually liked it.

Rabin comparing a reality show to horror/psychodrama/insert *serious* genre here? You don't say.

I feel like the point of ads is less to describe specific features of the product and more to imply its legitimacy. Big-name guest stars, clever and sequential commercials, they all indicate a large advertising budget, implying that the company behind them is a major competitor, and thus their products are viable.

"Signior Dildo" by John Wilmot, earl of Rochester isn't exactly my favorite poem (that would have to go to some excerpt of some Shakespeare play, or maybe just the entirety of Richard II), but studying it has certainly been one of the highlights of my undergraduate career thus far. Best stanza:

I'm halfway through it right now and I've been counting the borrowed elements from successful sitcoms of the past couple seasons. Happy Endings' deconstruction of the wedding crasher trope, New Girl's horny girl who doesn't know how to have sex and turns to a slutty mentor for advice, Suburgatory's sort of…

I'm halfway through it right now and I've been counting the borrowed elements from successful sitcoms of the past couple seasons. Happy Endings' deconstruction of the wedding crasher trope, New Girl's horny girl who doesn't know how to have sex and turns to a slutty mentor for advice, Suburgatory's sort of…