It's very much like the kind of humour you might imagine was created by an accountant, except it's funny. It's weird that way.

Liked for commitment.

Just to get pedantic, the high isn't what draws people back. That's what starts them using, but a nice catchphrase that's in tune with modern addiction research is that people aren't addicted to being high so much as they are to getting high - it's the pleasure seeking mechanisms that are screwed up.

Your interpretation is wrong. He says that if you're young and writing about film you probably like the movie. He doesn't say that if you don't like the movie, you're not young and not serious about film. Sorry, that's not a matter of debate.

A therefore B does not imply B therefore A. Sorry.

Never knew that, but I'd believe it. His delivery of the "you will find me a grave man" line still sends chills up my spine - and I think I've only seen it once, maybe in its original run.

Well, to be fair, an awful lot of white people weren't killed by the tsunami.

It gets a lifetime pass for Mercutio alone, the death scene in particular. Ooops, sorry, spoiler alert.

I don't understand why you can't blow up your workplace, then go home and do this chat thing.

@avclub-33beffd09a1b020d1187c6b4b264014a:disqus So, you mean it's like food?

All the cool kids are reproducing by spores!

Basically, the rule for reading Marvel comics is: See if Mark Millar is an author. If he is, don't read it.

Well, they're a fuck of a lot better than Rona (the made-in-Canada equivalent). I went yesterday looking for an inner tube for a cheap wheelbarrow, and the staff literally didn't know what an inner tube was. And when I finally managed to explain to them what it was, we found the area and they didn't have one. So I…

"How did it happen?"

Fair enough. I should maybe add that I'm not so arrogant as to ignore the fact that Penrose, despite his awful awful theory of consciousness and legions of confused followers, is a fuck of a lot smarter than I'll ever be and has made real, lasting contributions to the world in general and mathematical physics in…

Heh, Penrose. I read The Emperor's New Mind not too long after it came out, and I have to admit it was a pretty good overview of the state of cog sci at the time, and a fair presentation of many of the problems in the field. And then… he presents his theory. Which, ugh.

That's a small foot!

Things really do seem to be changing in that regard. Lots of young Bronies (who are a lot less creepy than the old ones), The Hunger Games, Avatar/Korra, and several other movies and books. I would never have dreamed of watching a TV show with female main characters as a child, but my kids would rather watch MLP than…

Don't worry, we'll be dead soon enough.

Fortunately it's a very short long poem - the unannotated version would take you well under an hour.