If I were Kevin Smith, I'd sure as hell pay AMC to run video of my friends hanging out. Why are you acting like this is a werid thing?

The love you gave me
Nothing else can save me

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooh, baby (ooh, baby)
It's making me crazy (making me crazy)
Everytime I look around, it's in my face!

Yes

Good hombre!

Ian McShane don't give a fuck about robots!

Doubtful. . .but both of those things would be pretty fooking funny, though. Now you have me hoping that's what will happen.

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Nonsense, I can think of like 40 greater American novels just off the top of my head.

Wait, how do you not remember if you replied to me? This entire exchange has been going on less than half an hour.

I'll give you that I have watched the first season of Person of Interest which is supposed to be just before it gets really good (I do mean to get back to the rest of it eventually) and Michael Emerson is the best thing about it so there's that, too.

Well, just because you have bizarre tastes is no reason to have to inflict it on everyone else, though. . .

I never bothered with Lost after the pilot episode just because I didn't find it that compelling but I'm inclined to respect those guys just for the influence they supposedly had on Michael Schur developing The Good Place.

Really? The Great Gatsby would be at the top of my list of stuff from the curriculum just because it's tight as fuck. Oddly enough my particular experience skipped that one and I didn't read it until I'd graduated from college but I think high school kids should be able to easily grok it.

This was my birthday, so alhough Russell, Albarn, and Kurosawa isn't the best haul, it damn sure isn't bad, either (I only just learned from OP about Crawford, Khan, Milch, Keener, and Haneke in order of coolmess, but those are pretty badasss too.)

"Granny" isn't Australia-specific, at all.

Come to think of it, though, why do we need a Chicago week. . .this is already a Chicago-based site that goes on about Chicago more than is probably warranted. Why not do a San Diego Week or Atlanta Week or Denver week or something?

That sounds much too straightforward for an Australian term. I'm just going to assume "granny flat" is actually a name for some type of beer or weird indigenous animal.

Well, you can't go full contemporary, though, the kids need to get exposed to some Shakespeare, Dickens, and the like. Actually that's probably the crucial test of a great high school English teacher: whether they can make the students really care about Shakespeare.

Wouldn't refusing to assign The Scarlet Letter automatically make you better than the average high school English teacher from the get go?