Wow—Dory was horrifically annoying and came damn close to ruining the entire first movie for me.  It pains me—PAINS ME, I tell you—that Pixar movies are no longer automatically must-see events for me, but there you go.  Not with a bang but a whimper, I guess.

Hate to say it, but as someone who usually likes big postmodern novels, I find The Sot-Weed Factor mostly interminable—and the constant undertones (or just plain tones) of sexual violence are pretty distasteful.  Giles Goat-Boy is awesome, though, and it's thematically very similar, so I'd read that instead.  You…

I do not know what the third world war will be fought with, but the fourth world war will be fought by Mormons and Scientologists.

Great—NOW who's gonna beat the hideous mutant turtle creature?

You know who ELSE was named Karl?  MY COLLEGE ROOMMATE.  QED.

It was partway through season five of The Office that I realized, huh.  I used to like this show, or even love it, but now I'm either indifferent to or actually hate all the characters, and it's hardly ever funny, and I am done here.  And I've never regretted that decision.

Well, "Be for Real" and "Always" are covers, you know.  I'm not the word's hugest fan of any of them or "Tacoma Trailer," but the others are all aces.  I think "Light as the Breeze" is sublime; I rank it at least as high as any other song on the album.

Man, libertarians should be fuckin' OVERJOYED with Parks & Rec.  One of the most awesome characters in the show is a libertarian—whereas in real life, libertarians are all sociopaths and emotional twelve-year-olds.  They should be THRILLED with that kind of publicity.

I like "we're lonely we're romantic and the cider's laced with acid and the Holy Spirit's  crying 'where's the beef?'"

The cover is pretty darned terrible, I've gotta say, but I DO give the reviewer credit for being named "Battleground."

Okay, but please consider this counterargument: "Jazz Police" is fucking awesome.  You can deny it all you want, but facts is facts.

A lot of Suede songs, but "My Dark Star" if I had to pick one.

Phew.  I was worried there was something wrong with me for thinking the first few paragraphs here were basically gibberish.

Frobscottle!

I really liked Big Trouble when I read it back in the day; it was lighter than air, and you could blow through it in a few hours, but hey, it was funny.  Then, I read Tricky Business, which was funny in places but also included a fair amount of really grim, unfunny violence, which made the whole thing a dissonant…

Why does some dickhead ALWAYS feel the need to show up to shit all over any public figure who commits suicide?  Often, it's even accompanied by these exact same DUR I WAS DEPRESSED BUT I DIDN'T KILL MYSELF riffs, which…well, if you can't understand that your personal experience means jack shit here, I don't know what…

I have to note that in Glomgold's first appearance, he was *no worse than Scrooge*—they were presented as more or less being doppelgangers.  In his second appearance, he was worse, but still kinda remorseful.  It wasn't 'til his third appearance that the nuance disappeared, which to my mind is too bad, if probably…

It's not.  There's a Barks story where Magica plays Circe, and there's a Barks story where our heroes meet various gods, but the Ducktales episode is an original.

Wot, no "Voulez-Vous?"  Seems like an odd omission.

If you can point to a more slimy, leering treatment of women in advertising than the one in those fucking godaddy commercials, please let us know.