Yeah, I think Tilda Swinton might be a little sick of being everybody's go-to androgyne. And isn't that character Greek or something? I only read the first chapter.

I'm not sure we need another Batman show—there have already been what, 4? 5? Plus The Dark Knight borrowed heavily enough from "Long Halloween" that a series would kind of be redundant. But ahh, the Watchmen series that might have been. It even has 12 chapters!

Thomas Pynchon
I think I know the reason no Pynchon has ever been adapted for anything—I seem to remember hearing that someone wanted to make a Gravity's Rainbow opera, and he stipulated that it had to be written for kazoo—but I still hold that there's an HBO show in "Mason & Dixon". They could even recycle some of…

I think it's a rule, not an exception, that fashion designers wear terrible clothes, hairdressers have terrible hair, chefs love to eat junk food, interior decorators live in ugly apartments—often independently of their actual competence.

While I'm generally compelled to defend my age group, it does occur to me that all my high school friends who DIDN'T go to school in New York City, and spent four years surrounded only by other college students, seem to be the exact same people they were in 2004.

see my comment above.

Fuck The Breakfast Club. A group of high school clique stereotypes hang out in a classroom and cry about their parents for two hours, and this shit gets "Best Teen Movie" over Ferris-fucking-Bueller? And why the fuck is it called "The Breakfast Club"? Nobody eats or mentions breakfast the entire movie.

as a 22-year-old, I can promise that I was WAY dumber at 18 than I am now.

This happens all the time with animated movies (nobody's mentioned "Madagascar" and "The Wild" or whatever that Disney one was called). I'm guessing it's because they take so long to make, other studios find out about them and figure they'll get in on the action.

Goddammit! The next one of you fullatos that adds a number to another number is gonna hear it from my .45.

In college people would periodically put on Mr. Show DVDs, and I never found them remotely funny—then one day, a couple years later, I decided to look some sketches up on youtube and suddenly they were HILARIOUS.

I'm curious how you manage to post comments on the internet, without actually being aware of the internet.

My use of "zero" in the above post is clearly erroneous, as the mathematical concept was not introduced to western culture until the crusades several centuries later. in any case, my understanding is that the Romans counted years not sequentially but by consul, and then emperor, i.e."the year of Cincinnatus" or "the…

wait a second, are you saying the Romans spent 7 centuries counting their years BACKWARDS, beginning at some arbitrary number, and by some strange coincidence Jesus was born in the exact year they got to zero? I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but the one thing you learned in Catholic school is clearly…

Hey, I'm cool with the Jews! As long as they announce themselves beforehand. I don't want to walk into a movie expecting our Lord and Savior's glorious arrival on this earth and instead see two Hebrews pissing on each other. Does that make me an anti-Semite or something?

Shouldn't "Year One"
be the New Testament, not the old one? Does "Year One, According to the Hebrew Calendar" not have the same marketing potential?

It occurred to me yesterday that characters are ignorant of word definitions pretty frequently on Deadwood—Al doesn't know "gratis" or "redundancy", neither Utter nor Bullock, tellingly, understand "Amalgamation" or "Capital"…on the one hand the "floweriness" of the dialogue stems much more from structure, rhythm, and…

Charlie Utter: I'd best go, lest Mr. "Amalgamation and Capital" takes one through the fucking head.
Seth Bullock: What's the import of that expression?
Charlie Utter: Do I look like I fuckin' know?

What's the import of that expression?

Titles
Deadwood's episode titles are yet another category in which it wipes the floor with every other TV show. "Tell Your God to Ready for Blood" "Advances, None Miraculous" "I am not the Fine Man You Take Me For" "Suffer the Little Children" "No Other Sons or Daughters" &c. &c.