Doesn't this assume that currency and economic markets are the same from state to state? This might solve some problems, but it seems apt to create more.

Hypothetical:
Let's say a public option is passed—then what?

Wait…

I heard he only whispers it when he plays it live.

Holy shit. Creed totally needs to be on this list. You hear it, and say "I should totally kill myself".

Wait…

What made me angriest about this list was the exclusion of Elliott Smith.

Not to gush my love of Shaun of the Dead (and Hot Fuzz for that matter), but I think both films make great use of showing how cliches, while trite and predictable, can be fun, new, and necessary to make a movie people will like.

Read Ed Brubaker's Criminal: Coward for a good example of how to properly use this cliche.

Placeholder got it.

When I saw this I immediately thought…
Broad Comedy Actors Who Play Every Role in the Same Movie, Just with a Different Costume.

I'll buy one
Even if it was painted by a mentally handicapped adult.

The reason he drinks: he's thirsty!

It's less IN YOUR FACE trendy, but retains that boring, internal "heh" of McSweeney's*

The First Chapter is on Amazon
It sucked. Sounds a lot like something a High Schooler would write.

Two and a Half Men doesn't bother me nearly as much as the soap opera melodrama that is Scrubs.

I fucking hate bitches who can't remember the lyrics they wrote them-fucking-selves.

AV Club Book Selection?
Besides reading Pynchon, talking about Pynchion is the funnest part about Pynchon! (Followed closely by pretending to have read Pynchon). I think this book should be up for consideration for AVCBC. I'd also except Lot 49 or Vineland.

Start here. It's new, it's funny, and you can talk about it with friends who pretended to read it.

The things I described are definitely in Inherent Vice. The Nazi stuff is in Gravity's Rainbow. A bunch of people have said it already, but Pynchon has a reputation of being dense and challenging (which are true, but shallow assessments) but he's also one of the funniest living American novelists. He loves puns and…