Like I said, I'm pretty sure they relaxed the policy as time went on. And as for Sokka, have you ever tried to hit anything with a boomerang? Kids would get bored with it before they ever actually connected.

Yeah, but the reason they even put the idea of "bending" in the series in the first place was because Nickelodeon executives had a stipulation that they didn't want to see kids actually hitting each other- they were afraid of kids going out, trying to recreate scenes, and seriously hurting each other (presumably this…

Finally, a network burning off a TV show works in my favor! I don't even have to feel bad about the people who made it, because they got to tell the story they wanted, and let's face it, they're going to land on their feet no matter what. If Nick doesn't immediately give them a new deal, they'll get snapped up by…

When did it do that? I've had iTunes since 2004, and never experienced that problem- though maybe I was just double-clicking on different songs each time, and ending up somewhere else in the order.

That's where I think I'm going to have to start looking for my next music player- fortunately, flash memory storage keeps getting bigger, so hopefully 250GB micro-SD cards will soon be affordable.

Are you making playlists with a touchscreen keyboard or something? It takes like five minutes to make a playlist. Or you can just hold the center button of the iPod Classic down and it will make a Genius playlist for you that's usually pretty acceptable.

Well, guess I never need to buy a fucking iPod again. It sure sucked having something that could actually fit all my music on it and had a battery life longer than 6 hours, thanks for ending that, Apple!

True Story: I have an uncle whose name is Thomas and who goes by Tom, so I've called him "Uncle Tom" for my entire life. He's white, though, so it's cool.

I already own that, Jeff Tweedy!

Hell, the second half of Season 1 is much better.

Well, presumably you don't need one, since you don't have a brain or any organic matter at all, really. Though you DO get your body back after the Second Coming, and help to build and maintain God's kingdom on earth… maybe you're in nonstop counseling the entire time between your death and then, so you come back more…

True story: When Kirkman first pitched The Walking Dead, Image wasn't sure that an ongoing zombie comic with no planned endgame was going to sell well, horror comics having become a niche market. So Kirkman told them that around issue 25 or so (roughly the same place he put the big twist in Invincible), there was…

The main thing I don't get about that is how Jughead has a kid. Did he figure out a way to get a burger pregnant?

Well, the art style is clean and appealing, and they always use these bright, solid colors… I think the art is a pure distillation of what really scratches our lizard-brains when we look at comic art.

So Gold, Cold Roses, and Love is Hell are all on sale on Amazon. I don't own any of them. Which one should I make it a priority to get?

If you guys did a better job promoting "sore-ey," I guarantee you people would eventually switch to making jokes about that. It's the most stereotypical Canadian word, and it's pronounced funny.

I agree! I'm tired of lambasting budding filmmakers for being navel-gazing. I would much rather lambast them for trying to depict the lives of people about whom they know next to nothing, and for whom they would probably feel the greatest contempt if they ever actually met.

If every novel about frustrated novelists had them getting kidnapped by psychotic nurses, possessed by evil hotels, or attacked by the multidimensional shadows of some unspeakable evil that can only be held off by the ghost of their dead spouse, far fewer people would complain about novels starring novelists.

and The Man Who Wasn't There. And pretty much every feature-length B&W movie from the last 25 years that's not Clerks.

Sheltie's talking about the part immediately preceding the jetpack fight- the second-in-command who's tasked with taking down Cruise tells everybody to get their "sick sticks out," and when the first guy lunges toward Cruise, he grabs the guy's arm and shoves it into the throat of the second-in-command, who vomits all…