Ugh.

Has nobody here heard of Rule 36?

Yeah, weej officially crossed the douche line with this one. In that spirit, I wish the Nazis had captured his grandparents so we wouldn't have had to read that comment.

Well, for one, nobody's trying to say he had a "big" influence - just that he had an influence.

I Need a Mahlercle
Why is it so head-spinning that Mahler would have influenced the Dead? Phil Lesh studied composition under Luciano Berio, along with people like Steve Reich. He didn't really listen to rock music until he joined the band. (He'd also never played a bass - he was a trumpeter.)

She can't sing
Has anyone noticed how much trouble she has staying in key? I've only seen her on SNL and one or two awards shows, but she really can't sing very well. Nothing against her, but man, she must get a lot of help from pitch correction for her releases.

Dean
You don't need to capitalize "Dean" like that - he's just the dean, like he'd be the principal or the doctor or the grammar nazi. Although you could make a case for "grammar Nazi."

Charles Portis
One of the most underrated, funniest writers ever of all time. The phrase "sloping monkey shoulder" will never leave me.

Is it still considered backlash when I've never liked the show? This is the fourth time I've tried to sit through an episode, and it's still just as flat and uninspired as it's always been. You want a funny show that the whole family can watch? Just catch some Everybody Hates Chris reruns.

Yeah, it's just such a bland little lump of a sitcom. The jokes are so predictable - even the knowing little twists on sitcom tropes are predictable and dull. Sofia Vergara's cleavage notwithstanding, there's nothing to see here.

Let's just say that it's not imperative that anyone buy anything, aside from insulin or HIV meds or, in Yankee Dear's case, the penises of Southeast Asian boys. That said, I live in a pretty small apartment and don't really have the space for a ton of books. The Kindle, or whatever e-reader you prefer, is a really…

That's true about the Kindle's battery life - when it's displaying a page of text, it's not using any power at all. I've had mine for about a month, and through three novels and a bunch of magazine articles (Instapaper Kindle is great), I'm still at about 40 percent of my first charge. Even if you read every day,…

@dgl

When you capitalize it and misspell it like that, it looks like somebody's name.

Missed a spot!
Kristen Wiig is still the cinder block that's tied around SNL's ankle. Her almost-uniformly awful characters recur far too often, and she just keeps recycling the same stupid voices and mannerisms. It seems like nobody wants to speak up in the writers' room and ask her to dial it down and stop sucking…

Wow, yeah, I've never gotten "flimsy" from Bootleg 5 at all - it's one of my favorite live Dylan sets. The "Tonight, I'll Be Staying Here With You" that starts that album might be his most badass vocal ever.

Great!
Now Xeni Jardin can be really annoying about the U.S. release of their debut album! (Side note: If anyone ever figures out a way to remove her posts from the BB RSS feed, let me know.)

Yeah, I'm sitting here reading a perfectly well-written, nicely considered review and then there's that line. To engage in unnecessary hyperbole, that is the dumbest thing I read on the internet today.

Are you angling for some kind of apprenticeship with Armond White?

Unwatchable
I wish I could travel back in time and strangle myself and spare myself the agony of sitting through this show. Maybe the worst thing I've watched this year, and I had to sit through a Two and a Half Men at my parents' house in March.