As we discussed, that is strictly a comfort thing.

You can scoff at Sears, but you can't look down your nose at her great skill as a designer. I've never seen it, but I'm told that most episodes of her show consist entirely of her sketching furiously at one of those slanty desks, or hunched over a sewing machine working up her newest concept.

The wife and I just had our honeymoon on the Olympic Peninsula. We
drove through Forks to get to the Hoh Rainforest, which is just south of
town. All the Twilight
stuff we saw was a bit depressing, though I guess it's good that the
town is benefiting from it.

I had the Picasso Don Quixote. Also Bob Dylan and Miles Davis. As you and any guests in my dorm room can see, I had culture.

I just bought a new house, and I'm told that the guy in the red pants (who went to my wife's high school) lives down the street.  But I haven't spotted him yet.

I've never seen any of the Sabata movies (despite my love of Westerns), but I have probably watched this clip about 100 times: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

You may be right.  I haven't seen that movie in many years, so my memory may be leaving out aspects of that and conflating the intent of the movie with the way some of my high school peers interpreted it.

The problem with movies like that is that they expect us to believe that their protagonist is a true artist or visionary, but then the work that they show them produce is just shitty self-indulgent home movies.  They should have made her a writer, which every other movie/book like this does, that way you'd never have…

Yeah, I thought their cover of Modest Mouse was really good this week.

Note: Taylor Swift doesn't play the banjo.  She often plays a guitar that's shaped like a banjo in order to look a bit more country.

Yeah, it's funny that all of these assembly-line big-budget action/spectacle movies engineered to appeal to a global audience with low expectations of pixels crashing into each other turned out to be mediocre.

Muppets 2: Or 8, I Guess, Depending on How You Count their Previous Films

I don't know if that's true, http://www.avclub.com/users….  Consider how well-received "The Avengers" was last year.  That movie was basically a bunch of pixels smashing into each other built around a "plot" involving a ridiculous McGuffin and the least-effective (and least-suspenseful) alien invasion since "Mac and…

Jokes about seeing the twist coming aside, I thought this was pretty common knowledge.  I seem to recall Roger Ebert talking about it once on one of the iterations of his tv show back in Shyamalan's salad days when one of his other movies came out.

Now that's a real nice rant, but I hardly would count the AV Club's "Great Job, Internet" feature as making headline news. 

The way Nick Frost delivers "You're off the fucking chain!" is my single favorite part of that movie.

Yeah, there's kind of an unspoken gentlemen's agreement (which is another word for collusion) that MLB teams won't sign young Japanese talent, but rather leave them to Nippon Professional Baseball.  I'm guessing there's a similar deal with the highest leagues in Korea.  So by the time someone makes it to the big…

Yeah, his oft-repeated line of "how it is about it" really got me thinking differently about movies back when I first encountered it as a youngster.

Break Your Hips

Heh, heh.  Mule.