It's Cat's Cradle for me, although I'm also quite fond of Mother Night and, strangely, Jailbird.

D'oh! I meant "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang," as some commenters have already guessed. I've been listening to a lot of Howlin' Wolf recently and crossed some wires..

It didn't do much for me at the time, but I haven't read it since it came out, either.

Y'all are going to put me out of business by making all of these insightful comments before we get to Season 3!

Read about it on Wikipedia, which is never wrong.

FLCL only runs for six episodes. I haven't yet figured out if I'm going to cover each one solo or double them up. So the answer is either in 3 weeks or 6 weeks.

Yeah, I was thinking about the Bertolucci movie through most of the palace intrigue plot, too.

Hey, Spicoli, I haven't decided how to cover FLCL yet, but I agree that there is plenty to unpack in each episode to fill a review.

The AVC style guide discourages contractions. I figure that I give the editors enough worry with my other fuck-ups, so I try to keep the contractions to a minimum. Plus, now I'm going to have to write a book in the style of Valis about my alter ego Strawlair Kids.

Yeah, but how does someone free them? There's only one metalbender and I'm pretty sure that the opening mechanism couldn't have survived Toph breaking out and then reshaping the cage.

I changed the code, but it is still not showing up for me. This is what it is supposed to be: http://youtu.be/rR23XtxF66c

Thanks! I'll see if I can fix it with my meager tech skills.

Thanks! This is my fifth or sixth time through the series. I gotta say: I love that this show draws so many bright and fun commenters. As much fun as it has been to write about Avatar, it has been a rare pleasure to engage with such a lively community here.

Definitely! I thought about mentioning it, but man, I find O'Bryan's scripts so annoying sometimes.

Nice point!

Absolutely. I don't know Mistakes Were Made, but I seem to remember that this question of how the Nazis could deny the essential humanity of Jews, Romany people, mentally disabled people and so on was the first question that Emmanuel Levinas, a French Jew and survivor of the POW camps (not the concentration camps), to…

Nice! I like that read.

The original idea of FN expansion, though, was a plan that the young-ish and most decidedly pre-evil Sozin expressed to his best pal Roku, and it was framed as a way to share the prosperity. I may be misremembering, but I don't see that we have too many reasons to doubt his statement at face value at that point. The…

Aw. You guys.

Callous? That's a harsh way to characterize the relationship between a father-figure and a son. I don't see how Iroh's desires for Zuko to live to his potential and my theory about Iroh's plan for Zuko to be the Fire Lord are opposed at all. I mean, Iroh clearly loves his nephew dearly, and I think he can also see…