We take our relief where we can get it. Horrible, horrible relief.

Also, Opeth was pretty awesome until their last album.

Also, Opeth was pretty awesome until their last album.

@avclub-4602fc349ffc0ad649190e937f2a5f14:disqus The only difference is that the canon has diversified and grown, to the point that it is unrealistic to expect a college-educated person to have read all of it. The very idea of a literary canon is somewhat in dispute. It certainly doesn't mean that people are getting…

@avclub-4602fc349ffc0ad649190e937f2a5f14:disqus The only difference is that the canon has diversified and grown, to the point that it is unrealistic to expect a college-educated person to have read all of it. The very idea of a literary canon is somewhat in dispute. It certainly doesn't mean that people are getting…

So it's the Don Brewer of TV?

So it's the Don Brewer of TV?

I love Kindles but considered from the perspective of long-term information survival, they are a fucking nightmare. Format changes could render them unreadable, a future totalitarian US government could snatch them away, and of course they won't work without power.

I love Kindles but considered from the perspective of long-term information survival, they are a fucking nightmare. Format changes could render them unreadable, a future totalitarian US government could snatch them away, and of course they won't work without power.

I don't think people snipe at guitar virtuosos for musically insubstantial reasons. With a few exceptions, most of them learned to play, not write music, which there's a place for, but which can also get really tiresome if not balanced with someone in the band who actually can write a decent song. That's why you hear…

I don't think people snipe at guitar virtuosos for musically insubstantial reasons. With a few exceptions, most of them learned to play, not write music, which there's a place for, but which can also get really tiresome if not balanced with someone in the band who actually can write a decent song. That's why you hear…

I also grew up in MN and didn't know until this moment that you could even get Red Vines other than at basketball concession stands. I thought they were like a specialty product that you could order only if you were some sort of institution.

I also grew up in MN and didn't know until this moment that you could even get Red Vines other than at basketball concession stands. I thought they were like a specialty product that you could order only if you were some sort of institution.

Pity. I was looking forward to some escalation of that bit, especially after Tuesday.

Pity. I was looking forward to some escalation of that bit, especially after Tuesday.

Or like in Insurrection - "hey, how about that Dominion war, huh?"

Or like in Insurrection - "hey, how about that Dominion war, huh?"

Jim DeRogatis has never been wronger than he was about that Kendrick Lamar record, and he's been pretty wrong before.

Jim DeRogatis has never been wronger than he was about that Kendrick Lamar record, and he's been pretty wrong before.

Like Mirror Garak, he would basically be Dukat.