Started Civilwarland In Bad Decline, it's pretty good, maybe the hype is deserved! Recently finished a book by Marcel Ayme, called either Uranus or The Barkeep of Blemont. Anyway, it's really good, portrait of a small French town just after the end of the Occupation, in which everyone's hands are a little bit dirty…

Also Lyra gets progressively more ineffectual and personality-free after being a brilliant protagonist in the first book. For a lot of the third one it feels like she's just there to keep the plot going.

Yeah, this article is blowing my mind. Let's write 3000 words on the Garfield Halloween Special, let's list a bunch of either rightfully forgotten or famous shit that happened in 1993, but let's not forget the dangers of nostalgia.

i never saw this thing and have no plans to. Serious question though: does this article make anyone actually think about the Garfield Halloween Special in a new light? I mean, if the whole of the piece was "Remember the Garfield Halloween Special?" would the comments be any fewer or different?

The cliche about artists being the worst judges of their own work kind of reaches its peak with this dude. Donnie Darko had mystery, humor, well-drawn characters and family dynamics, and a hell of a nifty atmosphere, which made it very enjoyable to watch a plot that didn't really make a whole lot of sense. But no, the…

Rue Brittania might be my favorite, the macadamia nuts sequence is all-time.

The scene with "Shame and Sorrow For the Family" is all-time.

Oh man, I watched a minute of him singing that "I Still Believe" song, it was unbearable. Are people still buying albums to hear dudes shout about about what's 'real' and 'authentic' (which is always the moldy old rock-critic canon)?

Here you go, from 1906, Kipling:

Yeah, I read the book when I was 11 or 12, and the movie seemed kind of lame and conventional compared with how hilarious and nasty the book could be. To be fair, I think the movie still had the part where Appolonius of Tyana reads the woman's fortune, and gives her this merciless monologue about the complete…

I hate being the "you forgot x" guy but seriously, people need to get up on some Mylene Farmer. Several 9+ minute videos (for 3-minute pop songs) with incredible costuming and production values, as well as full frontal nudity from the artist herself.

"Secret Fantasies" is pretty much the ne plus ultra of creepy sex raps

followed by his Michel'le impression, and "Shut the fuck up bitch you can't sing/you sound like a kid playing on a swing ('fuck you!)"

I am truly astonished that this article neglected Gangsta Boo's classic "Can I Get Paid? (Get Your Broke Ass Out) (Da Stripper's Anthem)"

My favorite line: The Doctor pouring the wine at the Tharils table until it overflows the glass, "This is no way to run an empire."

I just love that the requisite over-the-top villainous speech is about doing something, anything, instead of world domination or whatever.

Quatermass and the Pit!

Quatermass and the Pit!

I like how the last chapter has a little parable about how the readers shouldn't look too hard for plot holes or they'll just ruin it for themselves.

I like how the last chapter has a little parable about how the readers shouldn't look too hard for plot holes or they'll just ruin it for themselves.