Late to the party here as I'm a few behind, but I really wanted Proctor's protector (Burton?) dead. That guy is the worst cliche of a character that just needs to be removed.

"Hannah’s had a really, really tough time of it in Iowa. She’s homesick, unmotivated, and bored. Her classmates don’t like her, and there’s a flourishing underground market for bicycles belonging to her. Under these circumstances, it’s not unreasonable for Hannah to conclude this isn’t her field of dreams."

I'm a lawyer who writes in my spare time with the goal of actually becoming a paid writer at some point in my life. The best cure for "losing creative drive" is continuing to write legal motions and briefs and facing the prospect of continuing to do so for the next 30 years of my career.

I didn't necessarily say he is a better writer, in a vacuum, he's just a more interesting writer due to his life experiences. Agreed he is pretentious, but I don't think being pretentious is that unbearable when your main trade/profession is in a historically working class/non-pretentious field (although Chefs in the…

So, I'm reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain right now. This is the first book of his that I've read and I'm much more impressed than I thought I would be.

I just realized it was a Zach Braff joke. Whatever - still bridged the connection.

I didn't realize it until the Zac Efron joke, but Paul Downs (Trey) is Zac Efron in 'Diary of Zac Efron'. If you haven't seen it on Youtube, I highly recommend you check it out. Shit is hilarious.

…And Out Comes the Wolves in the Rancid album that matters the most. Perfect blend of punk and catchy. It is really the only album I can think of from a 1990s punk band that was a step-above entry level, skate punk (Pennywise, NOFX), but still more accessible than hardcore 1990s punk.

Iowa State is in Ames not Des Moines. I am from L.A., have never set foot in Iowa, and barely even the Midwest, and I know that. Do some research.

I typically enjoy the writing on this show. But I think this episode illustrates that Dunham, although talented, is a young writer with limited experiences, so she struggles greatly with writing outside of her own experiences and environment.

Hilarious biker joke from Super Troopers - over ten fuckin' years ago!

I was in a fraternity at a State college with a fairly good academic reputation, but greater reputation as a party school from 2003 - 2007. So, forgive me, but I had no idea that Entourage was universally and critically despised outside of my bro world until some time around 2008 or 2009. Unfortunately, the…

Adnan is guilty as shit. The podcast has done a great job of showing what a shit-show our justice system is and the kind of minor circumstances, that tend to go overlooked, can be the difference in being convicted or not.

I realize there can be differing opinions on what constitutes post-modernism (some people consider Vonnegut post-modernism, I don't). But for writers like DFW and Pynchon - because the writing to me is really self-important and because the lack of structure, coherence and cohesion is pitched as an intentional…

I was contemplating the film until you said it was 90% faithful to the novel. I can't stand Pynchon, David Foster Wallace or really anything that is generally classified as post-modernism. Wish PTA had picked better source material.

It takes 14 hours to write, edit and publish an AV Club review? Shit, I figured it was 2 hours tops.

Sadly, shows like Brooklyn Nine Nine and every other horrifically awful show on network TV shows the era isn't done yet.

Any restaurant in Brooklyn or Manhattan that you dress up for is costing that much for 2 by the time you're done (assuming a bottle of wine and/or cocktails).

The show has been really good at setting up expectations of what causes Scotty's death (Drug dealers! Whitney! Noah!), only to leave them seemingly behind. This episode makes me think that his mother might be responsible for the death? There have been subtle hints throughout the series that she is bat-shit crazy and…

Actually, the end of the Cold War killed the Bond series.