Maybe God is dead.

I have, yeah. Grew up on 70s and 80s country radio. I like a fair amount of his songs, but even the best of them — Mama Tried, Yesterday's Wine, ahem, Sing a Sad Song — are pretty glum stuff. The only time he seems like he's having fun is when he's bragging about his alcoholism. Or pretending he's not really from…

In a perfect world, sure, just having "something of value" that the market likes should translate into big piles of money. (Which it has, for these pampered pansies, just … not big enough piles of money, I guess.)

Loath as I am to intrude on a good old fashioned telling-off of network executives (looks like those clowns in Hollywood have done it again! what a bunch of clowns!) — I wouldn't say that the voice talent has "been loyal to the show" so much as "they understandably have never even considered walking away from such an…

I don't buy that at all. If the writers were any good, they wouldn't even consider the umpteenth iteration of Homer becomes friends with side character X. It only got formulaic after the good writers were gone.

Hey, YOU try living off a paltry $8 mil a year in this economy.

He may get legit outlaw cred from time spent in the slammer, but he's always come off as a tired old fun-hating windsack to me.

5. Why do The Simpsons creators need to make a new season if it's just the same as the last ten seasons? Couldn't they just release the most recent season again?

It always amuses me when someone defends their love for Sammy Hagar by harshly condemning David Lee Roth (or vice versa). As if they, as singers, are so different from each other; as if each is so inherently aesthetically incorruptible as to render any tolerance whatsoever of the other just completely unimaginable.

Pretty sure Chad Smith wasn't forced to join this band at gunpoint.

Quiet, you fool! You'll bring this whole house of cards down upon our heads!

Every year, new people are made.

True, but I'd be fine with him finding a role for Peter Serafanowetc. on new AD shows …

Hey, what could go wrong? An almost universally beloved franchise resurrected years past its creative prime because of the clamoring of obsessive fans? As George Lucas would be quick to point out, that ALWAYS turns out well!

Did he even try to talk in a British accent for that Robin Hood movie? I can't remember.

No, not trolling, honestly — and it isn't that I need the excerpt explained, I'm just pointing out that Moore's sort of a bad writer. Maybe that's a shitty thing to do on a review of one of his books, and maybe I didn't use the best example of what I mean when I call him sloppy, but I stand by my point. I think he's a…

Yeah, I don't know if I agree with the sentiment that the genre doesn't need transcending. No genre is so perfect that it should be considered "above" some tweaking, particularly if the changes are improvements. I understand what Scott meant, but I think a movie that upended conventional horror tropes and was still…

Temper temper, junior. He's not a good writer. His prose is awkward and, yes, stilted. (When applied to language, that word suggests unnatural, another way of saying awkward. I can understand your confusion, though; you probably thought I meant that he was writing the book while walking around on stilts or something.…

On a related note, Damon and Wahlberg seem to be collectively in 80 percent of all Hollywood movies these days.

“The intimidating thing about democracy is that it seems so impossible, so unmanageable, so out of reach to the average person. By twenty-two, I knew that to be a myth.” What does that mean? What's a myth — democracy? Or the attitude that democracy is impossible and out of reach? I don't know if the lack of clarity…