Not as good. I think Nick Offerman is the cat's pajamas, but Bill Murray was iconic as Herman Blume.

"Sister Mary Fred," actually, but everything else seems pretty accurate based on my memory.

I picked up Jennie Gerhardt because of this movie, but haven't read it yet. Unfortunately, the version Pekar would have read was the heavily expurgated version that was originally published, and not the restored version that was published in the '90s. I can't help wondering if Pekar ever read that version before he…

I've got that one buried in my to-read pile; probably should move it up towards the top.

I've heard John Waters is cool like that too. If I was ever in Baltimore and I knew where his house was, I would love to test that theory, but I know I'd be too chicken.

Love this movie so much, and Giamatti is great in it. The part I love the most is when Giamatti is lying on the bed writing a letter to Joyce with pencil and paper, and nothing underneath the paper. The pencil immediately and inevitably goes right through the paper, so he disgustedly wads the paper up and throw it…

Yep, dead babies in a bush, that's definitely the point where I seriously wanted to stop reading, and that was before I had a kid. If I had tried to read it after, I don't know if I could have gone any further.

Right, and a "page" of comments on OldDisqus doesn't equate to a "page" of comments on NuDisqus. I don't like this, it really just seems like the mobile version.

Wow, it was created by the original drummer in The Velvet Underground?

Man, if it was What movies and TV shows are you watching? there would be 8 pages of comments by now.

Oh, snap! They are, aren't they? Thanks!

Batman's mouth is visible, that isn't a facial feature?

"Bad fortune befell Kuehnemund…[T]he ’90s."

I never would have guessed it was supposed to be Owen Wilson if I hadn't been told; he didn't capture the Texas drawl.  His Chris Evans is great, though.

As Eddie Murphy once said, "Opie Cunningham!"

I love him laughing gleefully and maniacally, eyes closed, with the earmuffs and safety goggles on at the end of Max's Heaven and Hell.

What, instead of "IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!" he just says "BAM!"?

Michael J. Fox is his DP.

Mogadishu, we have a problem.

Exactly, @avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus , which is the main reason I've always been in the Frank Black/Francis camp instead of the Kim Deal/Breeders camp.  Frank Black and Teenager of the Year are both all killer, no filler.  Mostly, anyway, and what little filler there is is still good.