Good read. I like this feature.
Good read. I like this feature.
I heard someone loudly relate this opinion from the corner of a diner a couple of weeks ago. He was generally loud and obnoxious the whole time I was there, but that little, "I don't have a problem with lesbians, but gay guys are the worst" really stood out.
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dad
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Super Size Me 2: Fuck It, Just Gimme Two
or: why do people who have children get fat?
My two cents: the best place to start is Lifter Puller, Finn's first band. They're a little more unadorned, and they'll get you acquainted with his sense of delivery and world-building. I've been a Lifter Puller fan for a long time, and I think it makes the Hold Steady feel like a maturation of something. Also, Lifter…
THE A.V. CLUB
DAWES!!!!!!
I think they were wearing the same tie in the first scene together, too.
"I've been thinking a lot about this computer, what its role will be in the future. I think the answer is this: tiny hamsters, eating tiny burritos."
-Don Draper
Wang Computers: Inconveniently Large
Probably doesn't eat much. Plus, he sticks to liquor, which has no carbs. Or something.
Draper, you've done it again!
Also references to the moon landing/space travel more than once - with Don and the LeaseTech guy and Roger with Margaret.
Interesting choice of words. The "death wish" is exactly the impulse he denied the existence of earlier in the series, when the German intellectual was giving a report on Lucky Strike.
Yes, but when did computer technology progress to the point of increasing access to pornography?
The first of his I read.
In reading Vonnegut I've always found that he was able to articulate feelings, never so much thoughts, that I'd always been somewhat aware of but unable to bring to any internal clarity. I obviously can't speak for anyone but myself, but Vonnegut, at his best, offered me insight into myself and my own nature, not…
Any Vonnegut, really. He relays humility, empathy, and kindness without being preachy, which is exactly what every kid needs without what every kid hates.