Exactly. That's what Sartre considered living in what he called "bad faith," getting rid of the "god-shaped hole" etc. etc. Good stuff.

I'm sure he spent plenty of time figuratively giving them the finger as well.

I almost googled Madison Gorgonzola,  and then I saw what you did there.

I can think of two other ones that hit me pretty hard, and they are both on the same show: Lem and Shane.

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I think you mean Clive Warren.

God bless those little scamps, each and every one of them.

Maybe Alston's trolling us here. That's the only sane explanation I can think of.

Amen to that, and I totally agree that it's in the top 10.

"This isn’t dancing on the fine line between offensive and funny, as, say, Seth MacFarlane shows do; unless you’re Georges Bataille, this is well beyond the line of comfortable behavior."

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I always liked the story about Kubrick buying the rights for "Singing in the Rain" and then the company (I forget who it was) seeing the film and trying to sue WB to get it removed. At least, that's how I remember it.

Holy crap (no pun intended): Kaiser made a Bataille reference! That's the second time his name has ever been mentioned on this site (or so the search feature states).

I saw one episode of NCIS, and I swear to god that goth chick was hacking into a database, running a ballistics report, culturing something, running something through a centrifuge, assisting in an autopsy, doing blood spatter analysis, enhancing blurry satellite imagery, and isolating a protein strand all at the same…

Everyone keeps pushing it around here.

Speaking of ass, I have to say that your avatar is the weirdest, most androgenous, and genuinely creepy ass I have ever seen. Kudos.

The good ol' Google Image Search, if I do recall.

Never read any le Carre before and saw that they have TTSP at the library. Should I pick it up and give it a shot?

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

No, she is by no means important, and I believe it would be s stretch to even call her work "influential" in any lasting regard. IMHO, it really is, for all intents and purposes, an evil ideology.