I agree with PMftL: The AVClub needs to cut the comedy and write lengthy, researched engagements with the pop culture new items they cover. There seems to be no depth to these "News Wire" pieces, almost as if their conceived primarily as humor instead of detailed, documented analysis and original contributions to the…

You can say that again!

I actually clicked on that damned link. I don't know what I was hoping for …. but, yeah, the bit with the "with" was a little. Odd. Not worth firing the poor guy. But. Still.

Yeah… the last comment that shows up on my profile thingy is from months ago … Indeed, I think it was from BEFORE the switch to Disfuqux.

Nice. You get a NoPrize, sammidavisjr! Well done indeed. (or "well played" or whatever we're supposed to say … do kids still say "well played"?)

Friends: my earlier comment seems to have gotten eaten by Discfuxs, so here goes again: How exactly does Hector know Jesse, especially by sight? I just can't recall them meeting … anyone lend a memory assist?

I can't remember: how did good ol' Hector know Jesse? I don't recall them meeting, but, obviously, they have… anybody jog my memory?

If it's true that the car for Walt Jr was product placement (I'm not doubting you; I just didn't hear the podcast), then more power to them for lighting the car on fire and letting it explode on screen. I'm sure that whoever paid for that product placement was happy with the donuts, but probably less so with the…

Not really: he wants it stationary when he goes off to do drug related business. Then he'll return, grab it, place it back on his car, and drive home, to the grocery store, whatever non-drug related stuff he might be getting up to. Pretty smart, actually. That's why he wanted Walt to put the thing on his car, to…

That weird Deluxe figure sure has a humorless Aang riding atop that ugly Appa-thing, doesn't it? I (forgive me!) tried to watch the movie, just for laughs (after hearing it panned on How Did This Get Made) and had to turn it off after only about 15 minutes. An abomination!

Doc Brown: I was replying to a guy named "@docbrown," so I wasn't replying to you, but to a guy with a confusingly similar name (of cock?). To help, here's the post I was replying to:

Here's something pedantic for you: Ring around the Rosie is not about the black death, @docbrown. It's not even possibly about it. I'm a professor of literature, children's literature and folk rhymes two of my areas of research, but you don't have to trust my word alone:

@Larry Indiana:

Joe Simon is Jewish, Some American Troll. I'm sure he and Jack Kirby were walking around NY like Kings in the 30s, when the world was especially sensitive and open to the Chosen People, pushing around immigrants, like his PARENTS. He's second generation, and most of his family would have been immigrants too.

Grim Sleeper: isn't it a FISH fork? And it's his machine that cannot be defeated with said fork:

You can say that again!

The "Howie Scream":

Joseph Thomas is a pretty cool name too, right? Huh guys? Whattya say?

Nice. Bulls-eye. You hit the nail on the

So meaning's only there if we make the argument that what we're making meaning of was intended by the film makers? That seems like an anemic way of thinking about art.