@davidkordahl:disqus Ah, didn't see the link. Thanks!

@davidkordahl:disqus Sorry, was there a link?

No. Lena Dunham created a space in that movie for people other than herself - okay, her sister, mother and friends, but still. You can make a movie about yourself that you write, direct and star in, but if you then use everybody else in it just as satellites that's really that's hard for me to take. I mean, does he…

I will tell those three people you said that.

It's fascinating how totally not generous this short film is.

Oh wow, is there stuff about Littell in there? I've struggled with that book, for obvious and not so obvious reasons. I thought Daniel Mendelsohn kinda nailed it. What does Binet say about it?

http://www.comedy.co.uk/pod…

Maybe I don't get the irony but don't they almost always connect with their guest? I can't really think of an episode without even some chemistry.

Or smiling children?

Only tangentially related: There is this French cycle of novels, «Les Rois Maudits», The Accursed Kings. Anybody ever read those? How are they?

That magazine about tornado chasing? Awesome! (Umlaut jokes.)

"Get A Director With A Really Jewy-Sounding Name"

Frustrating fact: Instead of Elam, Strode and Thirdman Sergio Leone wanted the first bandits Charles Bronson kills at the beginning of "West" to be played by Eastwood, Wallach and Van Cleef. It didn't work out, schedule-wise.

To me it was, among many other things, always a really funny movie.

I've only commented once (to relate something sad about Allen Garfield) but I've really enjoyed these reviews and the comments. So thanks everybody, all of this here will stay with me.

*is turned into a "want the leg or the wing?" joke*

I dunno, maybe try to listen to some of the music they draw from.

"Now go home and play your fuckin' washboard." (Basically your joke - consider it an homage.)

Batman & Rubbin. Blam.

"former staffer"