Until five minutes ago I had not the slightest idea that Armond White was black, and five minutes from now I intend to forget it, along with everything else I have on him in my mental file except the two words, "Troll; ignore."

I had no idea NECKFACE was a thing. I just thought it was some random awesome graffiti I saw in Harajuku.

The best part is that, if you read the actual BBC article, the trailer has been approved for consumers since 1930, but because of one whiny kid, we can't watch it again until 2100, when presumably the kid will be dead and no longer troubled by such things. That's a hardcore ban!

Completely third-hand alleged Steve-Jobs-is-a-dick story, which I either heard from someone at Apple or from someone who knew someone at Apple: Supposedly Jobs used to park in the handicapped spaces at Apple purely out of convenience. Eventually other employees took to leaving notes on his car: "Park Different."

Damn you all have good taste, hell yes. Sachar published a new Sideways Stories book a few years back, and I dutifully checked it out from the library, never mind that I was like 25. (It was good!) Also cheers to those who brought up Lloyd Alexander's Prydain series. Taran Wanderer in particular was notable for being…

Yeah, Stephen Gammell's work for that series is honestly the most terrifying art I've ever seen. Not so much for the ewww-grody closeups like the spider-pimple above, but for the more ambiguous, surreal dreamscapes like the two kids, or this (mediocre scan of an) illustration for a story about a roommate who won't…

I'm sure they did. Then they saw their check and said, "Oh, thank God, I won't have to eat cup ramen for at least a week."

I spent the whole video going, "Haha, they've never seen floppy disks before, haha, I suppose the Game Boy is painfully outdated, isn't it," and then they brought out the detonator and I was like, "What the hell is that?" The captions come up and I'm thinking, "Wait, is THAT what an 8-track tape is?"

Yeah, EvelKareebel's comment is more or less what I was getting at. There are many ways of depicting evil without reducing it to a cartoon. I don't remember the Nazis in _Maus_ chewing the scenery with deranged laughter; it was enough that they went around efficiently murdering the undesirables.

Sliotous: I'm saying I think the book was made worse by having the forgers and Jew-despisers cackle with glee and twirl their mustaches, because it makes it much harder to take Eisner's point seriously. I wasn't kidding about the whole thing reminding me of the ridiculously caricatured Dungeons-and-Dragons Satanists…

Where not to start, indeed
The only Eisner I've read is The Plot: The Secret Story Of The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion, and I'm sure his other work is great, but for God's sake, the thing had all the finesse and subtle characterization of a Chick Tract. Yeah, OK, I get it, scuzzy people forged a smoking-gun…

Ah, that's why, I haven't played any of those games. I've been meaning to check out the Grey Matter demo since it's been getting good buzz (no time though due to end-of-year madness plus moving-to-Orange-County madness). And I recall Mario Galaxy 1's soundtrack being surprisingly and enormously good, so I wouldn't be…

What game music of 2010 did you think was particularly good? I know I liked VVVVVV and Tower of Heaven (though I don't recall if the latter was first released this year or last). I'm blanking on anything else that was especially memorable for me, but then I didn't have time to play an enormous cross-section of what…

Hey GhaleonQ! Cool! I've heard a little bit of Shugo Tokumaru, but he's never really grabbed me. I think I lean more toward Takagi Masakatsu when I'm in the mood for that sort of thing (although I'm probably grouping them very unwisely).

It's not my fault that you haven't heard Nai Mono Nedari no Dead Heat and therefore can't recognize it as, if perhaps less transcendent than last year's Ego-Wrappin' and the Gossip of Jaxx, still a mesmerizing and perhaps necessary evolution.

I must've been 9 or 10 when I rented Robocop. I was huge into silly '80s action movies at the time, and I guess I figured it'd be more of the same. Then the big robot malfunctioned and shot the dude a billion times, and I was thoroughly traumatized.

Sure, Middle-Earth may be pretty much canonically all-white
But at least Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea showed that you could write top-quality fantasy with dark-skinned characters. And turning classic fantasy literature into films is big these days! Once they get around to making, say, a TV movie adaptation on Syfy, or…

The Baby, the Farting, and the Earthquakes
Sounds like a never-published John Bellairs manuscript a la "The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring" and "The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt". One where he finished, said "I'm glad that's out of my system," and crammed it in the back of a drawer.

I didn't even care for A Game of Thrones that much, only barely enough to finish it through to the end. That said, Dinklage was great in The Station Agent, and Tyrion is potentially the best role for him in a long while. So I'm keeping this one on my radar. Not that I have HBO, or even cable TV at all.

Agreed, the ending left way too much dangling.