"Seconds later, they turn into a ravine and die."

…And die as a result.

This sentence is amazing. It needs commas so badly, but you stuck one in right at the end—in the worst possible place.

Yes. Thank god for NASA.

Though it takes a lot less flexibility than navel gazing.

Wait, so there's "shitloads of money" in shoegaze?

Well, if I had made the above statement while driving an Italian sports car and pissing into a mop bucket, you would be singing a different tune.

Your separation of all human beings into the categories of interesting/uninteresting is… curious, to say the least.

Look, it's a body of water, floating into the land.
Now, it's a body swimming out into the water.
Now, it's the land itself, here, that is a body;
a body of land.
It's the body itself that's a body of water.

"the Patriots logo… looks like a cross between John Kerry and a Castlevania monster."

Jon Gruden. He's got a lot of goofy intensity, and he knows his shit.

I love the Beatles, but I can't feel excited about this. There's always something morbid and depressing about bands "reuniting" when 50% or more of the original members are dead.

Without the Beef, truly a golden age in Hollywood has ended.

Since war is the most efficient way to kill off the troops, I'd say that's the most logical pro-war stance I've ever seen.

I thought he did pretty well with the Social Network. At least Mark Zuckerberg's computer didn't go BLEEP or BLOOP at him whenever he typed a character, which is what Hollywood often seems to think it needs to do make computers interesting.

And Pixar has devolved to Disney levels. Oh snap.

Shut up! Shut up! Shut UP! Shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! Shut up! SHUT up!

I imagine her American counterpart will be way more beautiful and far less interesting.

Officially being "over it" might have something to do with the fact that you can't live in Mission anymore without a Twitter-employee sized income.

If I had to sum up the 5th book in a single term, I would use "narrative ossification".