I could have listened to Graham talk about boobs all day…I, er, mean, it's always great to see how Rory can adapt to a significantly older crowd when she has to. I remember when I was re-watching the episode when Christopher's parents come and meet her and they all have one big, happy family reunion, I kept thinking…

With Philip Glass' original soundtrack playing in the background, I presume?

One of my favourite non sequiturs from the show is when Yugi points out how dumb he is (or how dumb another character is by comparison) and Tristan announces, "Zach and Cody are my imaginary friends!" I love that it came out of nowhere but then became a runner for the next few episodes.
He is basically pretty useless.…

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"My affluence makes a poppycock of the regulations."

First a Ben and Kate appearance and now this? This may be the best pick-me-up to a night devoid of my favourite shows.

It's Rail Mail…I mean, Snail Rail…er, Mail Rail…uh…I'll stop.

I just watched Tristana with a girl who said the film was filled with phallic symbolism and who proposed that the entire movie was in fact a dream. While I couldn't disagree with her, I've never been a fan of the Freud/Jung viacrucis of pop-psycho-socio-political assessments of works of art that I genuinely enjoy for…

Well, it's 7 pm over on the west coast, so I've got an hour until the new episode—and I've avoided reading your comments and opinions about it. 
Here's the thing: while I was driving home from school today, I finally got around to thinking about the show, something which I've been avoiding for a while. But (and I'm…

Yeah, jealousy plots were used to death by the 17th century, so writers really have to step it up when they feel they have to fit that into the story. In this case, those were some big mistakes.

@avclub-1982161d0fe636d1caabd47a2ac23e12:disqus , I always got a subtle, inexplicable gay vibe from Tristan. He's just so bad with girls and he never knows what to do or how to go about it. I know those are his character's failings, but he always struck me as somebody not completely comfortable in his setting.

Looking back on her introduction, it's hard to imagine that she would have only been in a few episodes as a set up for Chilton. We're given such a great portrait of her and her family struggles in a short amount of time that her rivalry with Rory is only a fraction of what her character's motivations are, and it would…

Yeah, it takes us 9 more episodes before we're even introduced to another young male (not counting Paris' cousin), and it's Dean's incredibly bland friend with the good workshop tools. Also, muffler shopping? But that's for another time.

Is it just me, or did it seem like Dean was trying to underhandedly show off his Christopher Walken impression in these first few episodes. I didn't notice it later on, but the tone seemed especially strong early on.

That is true. I read her works in either the original portuguese or in spanish translation and, even for two languages that are as close as those, I could tell that there was a certain tone or rhythm lost. 
Generally, in her works, the protagonist or narrator is someone who is not meant to have a definite personality,…

You know, that was actually Chase's stunt-double in the gimp costume. They just added Chevy's lines in the voice-over. But of course you already knew that.

I remember it was when I was exactly half-way through Perec's La vie mode d'emploi that I realized the guy was a genius and a madman. I mean, come on! People can talk about the "total novel" that encompasses an entire self-sufficient universe, but this guy managed to furnish his universe down to the molecular level.

I once spent 2 hours listening to one guy recount the entire plot of Jennifer Government. I wonder why no one brought it up during the most recent Ayn Rand resurgence? It sounds to me like a perfectly parody of what Gault stands for (given my horribly mal-informed opinion). Or you could wait for the movie to come out.

With Lispector, you have to be in a certain mindset, you have to be willing to forget everything you know and just drop into these worlds she sketches with a few strokes, paying attention for when her own dream-logic starts to take over the story.
I recommend that you read, if you have access to them, a few of her…

If you enjoy Pinter, I encourage you to seek out a few of his other plays, especially Birthday Party, Homecoming and Betrayal. As one visiting professor told me, Pinter is dangerous, and it comes across in his plays and more so in the stagings and productions of his plays. You may also, if you haven't already, read…