You're sick. Smurfing is okay if you have a GGG partner and you use protection, but needing it? That's sick.

You're sick. Smurfing is okay if you have a GGG partner and you use protection, but needing it? That's sick.

Never having been to either one, I'll bet Pennsylvania in the 90s was the same as Britain in the 80s. A little less Doctor Who, perhaps, but otherwise interchangeable.

Never having been to either one, I'll bet Pennsylvania in the 90s was the same as Britain in the 80s. A little less Doctor Who, perhaps, but otherwise interchangeable.

It's no fucking Moby Dick, I'll say that much.

It's no fucking Moby Dick, I'll say that much.

Eh that's their right as American teenagers. Just so long as a they grow out of the emotional retardation (see: tommy wiseau) and the navel-gazing irresponsibility (see: most of my friends in their late-20s).

Eh that's their right as American teenagers. Just so long as a they grow out of the emotional retardation (see: tommy wiseau) and the navel-gazing irresponsibility (see: most of my friends in their late-20s).

There are parts of the book that are handled very well (I remember the matter-of-fact handling of his sister's abortion impressing me as a teenager - wonder what the movie does with that subplot), but there were bits that just didn't work, with the molestation business (and anything to do with the aunt, really)…

There are parts of the book that are handled very well (I remember the matter-of-fact handling of his sister's abortion impressing me as a teenager - wonder what the movie does with that subplot), but there were bits that just didn't work, with the molestation business (and anything to do with the aunt, really)…

I'm perplexed because, on the one hand, you're suggesting that a medieval labor system is superior to the labor system employed in this situation. Yet on the other hand, it seems like a medieval labor system actually was superior.

I'm perplexed because, on the one hand, you're suggesting that a medieval labor system is superior to the labor system employed in this situation. Yet on the other hand, it seems like a medieval labor system actually was superior.

What absolutely perfect irony. Not that Amanda Palmer wasn't paying her musicians, which is bullshit; nor that Steve Albini doesn't like her, which fits with his MO of being a fucking insufferable douche who peaked as a producer around the time Kurt Cobain died; but the fact that recording artists actually depend upon…

What absolutely perfect irony. Not that Amanda Palmer wasn't paying her musicians, which is bullshit; nor that Steve Albini doesn't like her, which fits with his MO of being a fucking insufferable douche who peaked as a producer around the time Kurt Cobain died; but the fact that recording artists actually depend upon…

I've given up trying to get any of my friends to enjoy it with me, but I an fairly convicts that Just One of the Guys is an essential text in the transition from second-wave feminism to 90s post-feminism.

I've given up trying to get any of my friends to enjoy it with me, but I an fairly convicts that Just One of the Guys is an essential text in the transition from second-wave feminism to 90s post-feminism.

True, but it's a luxury that every human civilization has exercised since the beginning of recorded history. The cultivation of art appreciation is, like reading, an essential part of the human experience. We certainly live in a world where the majority of people have greater concerns than The Master, but every…

True, but it's a luxury that every human civilization has exercised since the beginning of recorded history. The cultivation of art appreciation is, like reading, an essential part of the human experience. We certainly live in a world where the majority of people have greater concerns than The Master, but every…

Good points. Part of the issue is that older, 'canonized' movies have the benefit (or burden) of decades of reflection, so you can approach them with some perspective - a new release that's hailed as a masterpiece is a little bit dubious, though not necessarily untrue.

Good points. Part of the issue is that older, 'canonized' movies have the benefit (or burden) of decades of reflection, so you can approach them with some perspective - a new release that's hailed as a masterpiece is a little bit dubious, though not necessarily untrue.