He's been doing a great job writing up episodes, I like what he's saying about Community and etc., but the noodling on aesthetics and etc. in this blog is just annoying and kinda unwarrented.

Sasha Frere-Jones IS… Sasha Fierce. Seriously, Jezebel.com ran the Pot Psychology videos and he guested on a couple of them and mostly just sat around smiling with his eyes.

30 Rock's one of the most solid shows on television and it's got some flaws but saying it's on a decline? VanDerWerff comes off as a dumb douchebag that can't just enjoy things without deconstructing them and leaving the individual parts joyless and overanalyzed. There's critical review, and then there's just being a…

Nipples a lot of AVClub reviews operate on the basis that you have the tastes to go with the product too. I got Wye Oak's most recent album, it's really nice and I can see the quality, but it -bores- me and that's just taste. It's an A album, but it ain't for me. People might not like the style of Fallout Boy or…

I just wanna say The Emancipation of Mimi is a dang good album and anybody who's into contemporary R&B should have a copy.

Okay it's still hypocritical but
Iunno, there's a difference between being swatted at by some bitchy grandmother, and being routinely belittled, abused, and emotionally devestated by a grown-ass man that is married to your mother. Besides shit in a comedy ain't always gotta be real life acceptable.

Fall Out Boy is strong power-pop, and the Coldplay album was a total improvement over the last few considering it actually showed some creative chops (though it's not my bag either). If you want reviewers that just dismiss everything mainstream, why don't you go over to Pitchfork or some other site? Music is as much…

Mariah Carey does some good pop, and her last album had some very solid singles (Lovin U Long Time, Touch My Body) nevermind the tour-de-force of The Emancipation of Mimi. She's outside of the comfort zone of the AVClub's pretentious music geeks, sure, but she does co-write or exclusively write her own music, she has…

Scrubs is better than, say, Two and a Half Men, or According to Jim, because it has some novel concepts. But it succumbs whole-heartedly to fake sentimentality, throwing babies at problems, really deep-running cliches and memes, and more and more startlingly a lack of originality. In the first season, it was good and…

Seriously. I mean was this: "Lawrence once again proves he has a knack for casting. Cox plays essentially a grown-up Elliot Reid from Scrubs" supposed to be an endorsement? If anything that sounds horrible, dear god horrible.

And then you stick with it for 5 seasons more anyways and you realize that nobody has any depth, nothing is built, and basically they dealt with a shortage of dramatic hooks by throwing fucking everyone a baby come the fuck on. Oh also people dying a lot. Brendan Fraiser's dead, somebody's having a baby! Black nurse…

Scrubs was okay up to a point, which was after you watched about 12 episodes and realized it was just a show about a bunch of manchildren, dumb pop culture gags, horrible female characters, and repeating the same cliches over. and over. and over.

In fact I'm pretty sure the only way this differs from a Lifetime/Hallmark movie is a higher budget, Jennifer consoling-to-middle-aged-spinsters Anniston, and the fact that Aaron Eckhart is distinctively dreamy, and not just generically dreamy.

Come on guys
I know that the grading system isn't perfect, but a C? really? What you described isn't a movie with real redeeming qualities, but a Lifetime Original movie put on screen, bland and full of cliches, utterly dull, uninteresting, 100% predictable, and a waste of time. In fact, you even admit that it only…

Seriously the guy was double-crossing like nobody's business, who'd imagine a doughy little dude could be working over the government and a multi-national corporation and trying to come out a few million dollars in the black.

The greatest thing is that ADM wouldn't have ever had anybody suspecting a thing about them fixing prices, if it wasn't for Whitacre. Hell, they'd still be doing it now. The fix, it is in.

Archer-Daniels Midlands
For all ya'll NPR geeks who remember the This American Life episode about this story, here's the link. http://thisamericanlife.org… it goes pretty indepth

Thanx Nollvane I am looking to become an academically valid source and your endorsement helps.

Odysseus was clever, but not necessarily 'tricky', since that tends to carry more of a negative/whimsical connotation some mix of that, especially in myth.

Hey Spike Jonze was only partially responsible for Jackass! Which also reminds me that he can skateboard like a mothafucker, he's a rennaisance man.