Real question — I started receiving emails from Disqus. This coincided with the launch of the new design and me having to login again for this first time in ages.

Really? There are so many other things in that story that I would choose as "my favorite part." Industry was the wrong word anyway. He was just a guy that needed money. Industry suggests something like a management, organization, regulatory mechanisms. I think you're being disingenuous about my "implication." It's…

I knew a guy in the sex industry (not porn, but in LA). He said anxiety would routinely get in the way of the process. He told one vivid story of just up and leaving the place. Vivid in the panic-attack sense, not in the hey naked people and crazy sex sense. But then he would also tell stories that were obviously a…

We can comment on the AV Club now?!?

Her version of a "very not-theater-y" background and mine differ, um, dramatically.

Did you arrive at a solution, @Glancy ? If you find a reservoir of old TBS episodes in mp3 format, I'd really appreciate an update.

Doesn't anyone knock anymore? Reinhold's line, despite being so mundane and under-stylized, is memorable as well.

Whoa, really surprised to see this one get the ''watch this'' treatment. Granted it's been a long time since I've seen this, but this treatment has it punching well above its weight-class, I think.

I get what you're saying about the narrative role this guy tends to play, and won't reproach you for any loathing. By all means, loathe.

Re: Rick and Ilsa, I disagree with your characterization about the many ways in which Rick is just a speed bump in Ilsa's life. To rebut I'll just point to the rest of your paragraph.

Not an illuminating review. Live action reenactments of the "devastating 1923 Kanto earthquake and its resulting firestorms" would be prohibitive? Tell me more, please. M should have spent less time on Horikoshi's relationship w Naoko? And M was too dogged in his reconstruction of H's career? Are you commenting on…

Repeatedly hearing "my grandmother's bush goes up to her bellybutton" back in the day has given the phrase surprising tenacity in adult life.

Ah Edith.

Robert Blake talking to Bill Pullman at the party in Lost Highway turned my stomach to water the first time I saw it.

Was the video embedded ironically?

Doc, Marty, and their shaggy dog drop by in a flying DeLorean, Huey Lewis blaring out the windows. Where we're going, we don't need, uh, oceans? Huh.

The script's first draft had it as a found-footage motif, and that footage was Imax. That's all I know. 

Once you land on the atmosphere you can basically just walk home. It's science.

This was the perfect opportunity to re-team Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan. What a pity. 

Peggy Lee singing Is That All There Is, or is that too obvious?