Yeah, people on the internet will argue that you can order up plenty of gross footlongs that have more calories than a big mac, but it is still quite easy and satisfying to get a turkey sub with a few actual vegetables on it. Can't think of a fast-food chain that is actually healthier. And in NYC it is usually fast,…

Eh, I would encourage you to just get unrankled. As you observe at the outset, this is basically the game of criticism, and the rare critic that you actually love manages to do it in a convincing way. The fact that some marginally paid aspiring wrote a clunker of a sentence in an otherwise decent piece just isn't…

Oh I get it. What would be an analogous American figure, some "reality tv" star whose shtick is a little silly? Now imagine this is one of the most famous Americans out there. Not Barack Obama, not some great athlete, musician, et cetera, nobody even knows about any of that shit. It would be annoying.

http://www.textfiles.com/ar…

Wait a minute, that's not a real website. What's the big idea here.

WUZZOONGLE

But you definitely need the sauce inside the packets, to make it pillowy.

I think she was kind of selling JJ short there. Seemed like a half-way decent, dry joke, and even made room for them to play off each other. But Amy decided to look at the camera like "this guy's an asshole!" And there really wasn't that much left to this "take-down," she didn't even do anything good with the 90%…

That's funny, I don't remember any of that. Was I with you when you were listening to these records?

Well, since you are talking to an advice columnist, you are going to get advice. This is just how it works, Sparky. My advice to you is to open your heart. Feel some actual love for your fellow man. (I notice that you include an interesting escape clause in your post there, you "love everyone equally" which could…

Yeah, but
- you know that person is exaggerating, to be provocative.
- you know WHY they take that stance, since for fans the standard of proof is always "let's deny it and disparage the accusers, unless the person gets convicted." We just went through this with Cosby.

Well, surely this is not logical. No one is arguing that the accusers are definitely liars, just that they (or other parties involved in the conversation) MAY be liars, which is actually obviously true and needs no reference to UVA etc. to back it up.

Does his stand-up act really NOT make him sound like a guy who would take his dick out and masturbate in front of women? Seems actually pretty consistent with the shit he does talk about. Seriously, think through all his standup specials and count up every bit about dicks, jerking off, and gay men sucking dicks that…

I feel like Weiner loves creative people so much that he thinks the prospect of Don writing something heartfelt and zeitgeisty is intrinsically beautiful. The fact that it is an ad for a crap product is only mildly ironic to him, humorous really.

Yeah, this comment is going to get misconstrued.

"It would be pretty obviously a violation to rip or burn a copy and then sell that, right?"

As long as you are giving up the ability to use it, it is legit to sell it to someone else. Perfectly legal and within your license. But by keeping a rip, you are duplicating the media in order to keep one copy for yourself and sell another.

Heh, the used CD market is pretty amusing. It's totally legit (as long as the seller doesn't keep an mp3 rip on their hard drive, anyway), cheap as hell, old-school, and the artist gets absolutely nothing.

Nah, I'd bet that, moreso than in most places, AVClubbers like the ability to stream stuff quickly to hear what it sounds like and THEN actually pay for it. Because a lot of us are old as fuck and never really got out of the habit of buying.

Sure but if the trail really goes back into the primordial mists of time, then nobody specific that we know about got ripped off. That would seem to be a good defense against any infringement claim, to show that it is merely one instance in a long line of similar works.