David Lynch is probably the most accessible surrealist filmmaker out there. So, yeah, kind of.

I just started it this year, and I would say that it is eminently watchable, while managing to still be as weird as anything else David Lynch has done. It uses a lot of your standard TV tropes (serialized structure, a large cast of characters, relatable protagonists, out-sized villains), and uses them well, to present…

But God was speaking through him, so all his metaphors are absolute truth.

The New Testament

He's gotten pretty bummed out about Internet vitriol in the past. As a human being, this makes sense because the other options in that scenario would be:

Yeah, hey, anybody planning to write a memoir or autobiography, Lycro's here to tell you to knock that shit off. He doesn't want to read hundreds of pages of you talking about yourself. He knows that using yourself as a subject can never be funny, insightful, or enlightening.

Dan, if you're reading this: Don't let d-bags on the Internet get you down. Anyone who has ever listened to an episode of Harmontown loves you unconditionally.

At some point Comcast will give up these sad little charades and just go with the slogan Comcast: Because we're the only game in town.

*Orson Welles in Citizen Kane clap*

These Popples look pre-made for furry porn.

And your Extra Bigass Fries?

Nothing in the world fills me with paralyzing ennui quite like an AC/DC song.

Bernard Malamud had a very clever inversion of the "What is art?" question. During a dream, one of his characters is asked "Why is art?", which I think is a more thought-provoking question, and much more relevant to the human experience.

I'm from Northern California and I use "hella", but only in an ironic way.

I would have to agree with this assessment. The Mars part of the Mars trilogy is pretty compelling, but the humans colonizing that planet are pretty unlikable. Now, as a general rule I hate the "I don't find this character likable" Intro-to-Creative-Writing level of criticism; however, Robinson seems to be genuinely…

Oh yeah, you know what else was a concept?

Ah, yes, the old "we're going to pretend like you've never heard of Netflix or Amazon Prime" strategy. Classic.

I got the free trial of Hulu Plus so I could binge-watch Community, but soon found I could not stand the amount of ads, and that's before I was paying to watch them.

Not as compared to hard-disk drives, and not when you need to stuff a bunch in a small area (see: smartphones).

I think users have a reasonable expectation to no have products and services creating additional unnecessary work for them. Sure, the amount of outrage comparable to the amount of work is silly, but if this gives product designers pause every time they try to burden users with promotion, synergy, and branding, I think…