"or as its patrons pronounce it, 'thee-AH-tre,' where the "I am better than you" is silent)"

Fun fact - I have a digital tuner box, and a dvr with a digital tuner, and 2 sets of rabbit-ear antennae, one hooked up to each! Well I think it's kind of fun…

It was perfect, too.

Had the audacity to show a WEALTHY unmarried mother.

No. It does not. It didn't really even hold up until the end of its run.

Know what's weird? Lots of people don't remember there was an older daughter in that movie.

Dominique Dunn. Well, just after.

But that one scene, with all the dead bodies, some of those REALLY WERE DEAD BODIES, man!

That story he wrote about the boy who runs away and is befriended by a ghost boy in a graveyard was my introduction to Neil Gaiman, though I didn't know it at the time. It was in an anthology of ghost stories edited by Peter Straub, I think. I didn't realize it was Neil Gaiman  until I encountered it in "Fragile…

I know that "American Gods" was a big seller (NYT list-big), and "Anansi Boys" was as well. But he's not Stephen King-level well known, he's not HUGE; but he's pretty popular by any other standards. I had no idea of that until I picked up "Anansi Boys" by chance, and couldn't put it down, and wept a little at the end.…

Can I suggest: "I read it to my 8 year old daughter soon after…". I mean, regardless of how old she is now, it will always be your 8-year-old daughter to whom you read it, yes?

Yes, what @avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus said - also, the handsome guy in the movies asking is usually a stranger to the askee - In the case of Starburns, I figure she'd seen plenty of him around campus.

LOVED. That's all.

Oh yyyyeahhhh, huh.

Actually in more than one episode they looked painted on (and sloppily, at that)

I had fortunately forgotten that someone was going to die this season - somehow that made it even more enjoyable (seriously, this is why I don't enjoy mysteries quite so much as other things).

I forgot about that until just now…lol

Perfection indeed - I just laughed again.

Walk Hard is pretty great. It's that weird kind of hybrid which sends up conventions of its subject (in this case Hollywood biopics of famous musicians), but is strangely affecting on its own. Which I guess means it's subtle.
On the other hand, some of the jokes wouldn't be jokes at all if you didn't know some pretty…

"Excalibur" wasn't a "US film"? Maybe it wasn't, I don't know.