Now that's funny. Perhaps not quite incompetent enough to be actual Dan Brown writing, though.

I suppose everyone's already seen this?
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~…

Sounds oddly like a Sinclair Lewis novel.
And that is really all I have to say on the subject.

I like the game.
I was disappointed, however, that I couldn't solve the "give the trick-or-treaters" candy level by giving them a Bible tract instead. That would've been one for the ages.

I have to admit, I don't really get what the joke there is supposed to be (let alone why it was apparently funny enough to be used twice), but hey, whatever brings you joy. It's surely better than the blog itself.

I don't believe I denied that anything that this blog makes fun of is, in fact, bad. That is emphatically not the point.

Thank you, Sid79, for your support.

Gosh. For such fans of unrelenting negativity, you fellows seem surprisingly touchy about mean comments. I mean, granted, this was flamebait; there's no reason you should pay attention to me (although for what it's worth, I believe everything I'm writing—I may be a dick, but if so, it's not just for the sake of…

This is why I don't read the Hater anymore.
Well, this entry apart, obviously. But it's absolutely the worst thing on the AVclub. It's long since passed into self-parody. It validates every negative stereotype anyone has ever had about sites like this and the culture they are based around. Okay okay—everything…

What, no Yellow Submarine?

That sounds about right. Still not totally sure about "all the wheels in ivory town" though. Wheels?

Yes, I am aware of this, but what's it doing in the song?

Somebody please explain to me!
In "Dress Rehearsal Rag," what is one supposed to make of the part with the elephants?

If *I* had a letter printed in Savage Love, I know I would prefer not to have a buncha smug, dickish AVClub assholes commenting on it. And you KNOW there would be smug dickishness.

Um, I was referring to the "Charles Manson was the inevitable dead end of the love cult ideals." You will find that Pynchon pretty well agrees that the sixties was killed by dope-fuled inertia/confusion, but he will laugh in your face at the idea that free love is "immoral" Seriously, if that's your belief, you'll…

It's a silly thing to say. But you can certainly say it!

I give it the lowest grade possible: An A A…-…-!

It's short and easy to read. I read it in two weeks, going at a very leisurely pace. Had it been necessary, I could have done it in a day, and I imagine you could too.

Vineland needs no defending. It speaks for itself, and what it says is fucking GREAT. Do you realize that CAMP is a real thing? Maybe I'm naive, but finding that out blew my mind. Given our concerns about civil liberties over the past eight years, the novel feels more current than ever. But man oh man, if you…

None of his novels are easy if by "easy" you mean "you can read this and easily and immediately 'get' everything in a single pass." On the other hand, if by "easy" you mean "any literate native English speaker can read this novel and get *something,* if not everything, out of it," then his only novels that aren't…