I got through 2 pages of the Da Vinci Code and had to take a sedative and lie down for awhile. Dan Brown's violent assaults against the English language are just too much for me.

Sugar, you just totally made my night.

I just moved to Chicago last month, and I am TERRIFIED of winter. I grew up on the goddamn Gulf Coast, where it gets kind of chilly and maybe ices over once every 5 years, but that's it. I'm looking forward to a less miserable summer, but winter…. and this thread is not all that reassuring.

shit, neglected to hit the refresh button before posting.

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WOW that is a fucked up interview… I was vaguely aware of this guy but had never read his work, and I think I'll keep it that way. For someone who goes on and on about how he's the only rational thinking person out there, his arguments seem like paranoid black and white thinking with no real substance. I don't really…

Isn't that what all film companies do?

The sad thing is the dress was the most wearable thing they were able to come up with. I was kind of shocked at how badly they all sucked. But not as shocked as I am at myself for actually watching this.

Actually Sugartits, I did love Gatsby in high school, but I do think that some kids aren't ready for it. Also, not everyone gets a really good teacher, so then they can be turned off for life. I think advanced literature taught by incompetents can turn a kid off of literature forever. Personally, I was brought up…

That's an excellent point, La Pipe. A lot of schools assign shit that 98% of kids are going to hate because they're just too young. I went to a private school and had to read My Antonia by Willa Cather in the 8th grade. Sure, we could read it and understand the action, but the themes in that book are for mommies and…

@thizzy

Seconded. Dane Cook can suck as much as he wants, but I will NOT tolerate crimes against Johnny Cash!

@Ughhh
Many shows with laugh tracks are filmed in front of an audience, but that doesn't mean all the laughter is genuine. They can't just let the audience decide what's funny! So they add the laugh track and make it sound how they like. Any show where you can hear an audience uses a laugh track. This, of course, does…

I actually think the show is pretty good, but I hate the fuck out of Zach Braff and just can't watch it. And my doctor friends tell me that as far as TV goes, Scrubs is the most accurate depiction of how a hospital operates.

I'm with Evel. Where exactly is the similarity between Izzard and Gervais?

Dr Jules, thanks for this link. It's hilarious.

Dude, lovemydog, way to keep your composure in the face of some really outrageous trolling. I think it's awesome that your husband found something to get him into books, even if I do think Dan Brown commits a crime against humanity every time he opens his laptop. Good to know that even the not-so-great books can have…

Ok, some of you guys have compared Dan Brown's crap to mysteries in general, citing authors such as Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. PLEASE, what the fuck is wrong with you?!?!? Don't equate an entire genre with one of the shittiest popular writers in American history! Dan Brown's work sucks for what it is (see…

CC is right about her opacity. I don't think that SJ has much in the way of talent, but she can be effective in a role. It's all down the filmmakers, though, and not so much her. It's kind of sad, really, because she clearly wants to be brilliant and creative as well as super hot. And she's only going to be super hot.…