And then the clerk says "Holy Shit! A talking duck!"

Despite having given Album of the Year to Teenage Fanclub the year Nevermind came out.

Despite having given Album of the Year to Teenage Fanclub the year Nevermind came out.

Thinking about it again, the movie would work best if the first twelve issue or so were dealt with in a pre-credits montage a la the first Lord of the Rings movie on the origin of the rings.  We get how the characters are created and then move onto the situation of these people dealing with the sudden fame that has…

Thinking about it again, the movie would work best if the first twelve issue or so were dealt with in a pre-credits montage a la the first Lord of the Rings movie on the origin of the rings.  We get how the characters are created and then move onto the situation of these people dealing with the sudden fame that has…

False. The Newsroom is also based on factual events.

False. The Newsroom is also based on factual events.

FWIW, I'd stick with the Elementals. It could be a profoundly good movie as it explores what it would really be like if superheros existed. I could be looking back on this with rose-tinted glasses but it I remember it being the (first?) and best in the "what would happen if super heroes were real?" genre.

FWIW, I'd stick with the Elementals. It could be a profoundly good movie as it explores what it would really be like if superheros existed. I could be looking back on this with rose-tinted glasses but it I remember it being the (first?) and best in the "what would happen if super heroes were real?" genre.

Well, all of the hippie baby boomers did finally admit all of the things they were for in the '60s was bullshit and…

Well, all of the hippie baby boomers did finally admit all of the things they were for in the '60s was bullshit and…

If it's any help, for the most part the people who think this imho are people who hate their lives right now. No one who is happily married with two wonderful children is praying for the apocalypse. It's only freaks and gun nuts who think that it happening would elevate them to level of kings and/or the saved ones.

If it's any help, for the most part the people who think this imho are people who hate their lives right now. No one who is happily married with two wonderful children is praying for the apocalypse. It's only freaks and gun nuts who think that it happening would elevate them to level of kings and/or the saved ones.

A donkey would kill you and your entire family if it had the chance.

A donkey would kill you and your entire family if it had the chance.

If you're going to do it, there's a pretty good piece over at Slate where a guy read it book by book and then wrote about it. Think of it like a high-brow version of AV Club going over a classic TV show.

If you're going to do it, there's a pretty good piece over at Slate where a guy read it book by book and then wrote about it. Think of it like a high-brow version of AV Club going over a classic TV show.

He went off the deep end but I remember reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons where one of the characters talks about the story of Abraham in the bible. (Abraham is commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac to god, almost goes through with it before god tells him that's it's okay, it was just a test and Abraham passed.)

He went off the deep end but I remember reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons where one of the characters talks about the story of Abraham in the bible. (Abraham is commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac to god, almost goes through with it before god tells him that's it's okay, it was just a test and Abraham passed.)

While we're at it, who the fuck decided Taylor Kitsch was a movie star?