You certainly could lose weight ordering this stuff but you would have to throw away like 80% of your order, at a minimum it's a huge waste of money.

Yeah, they got released in the art-houses, they did OK, and really how could you tell that House of Flying Daggers, in particular, wasn't a Crouching Tiger sequel? They were all pretty good by the standards of that kind of thing. I will say Crouching Tiger had a much more coherent plot than any historical kung-fu…

Notebooks and jeans, notebooks and jeans, notebooks and jeans. Yeah! Notebooks and jeans!

But from the standpoint of the mainstream popularity of Chinese films
(in America presumably) weren't Hero and House of Flying Daggers (and
the Stephen Chow movies) nearly as good as sequels?, or do you need an
Ang Lee?

The AV Club turned into Stormfront, well pretty quickly actually.

I've made Captain Crunch omelets a couple times, it's tough to get the texture right. Possibly not worth it even if you do.

The auto museum is pretty great and they have the bowling stadium. But yeah, it's awful. I went there a few times before I discovered Lake Tahoe.

As long as The Flash doesn't screw up Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller?, Prison Break was tedious but he was pretty hot back in the Popular days) I don't care what they do with this copycat.

I'm from Massachusetts and while the hairy/Harry thing drives me crazy I've never noticed hurry/furry before and I definitely pronounce them the same. I've also never heard anyone say "baggle" or "vagg". I'd never noticed Mary/marry before reading about it either though, I guess it's weird being on opposite sides of…

I'm not opposed to toasting but I prefer to do it in the broiler before slicing. You get a hot bagel but without the toasted inner surface,

I was introduced to that album by the same guy who turned me on to Neu!, Faust and The Hafler Trio, it almost makes more sense from that perspective than the metal perspective.

I'm not sure, Sleep was pretty popular with the hipsters of my generation, along with Earth; I think Ufomammut or Ghost, or even Portland's own Agalloch would be more hipstery choices for token metal band but High on Fire isn't inappropriate.

Satellite radio doesn't sound like a great value if those are your only options.

Did you go to Duckfat? My mom was there for her birthday last week and I was sorry I couldn't make it.

The original Denny O'Neil/Neal Adams version had tons of kung-fu movie trappings and a lot of his storylines took place somewhere in Asia. Basically he's the personification of Orientalism but the fact that he basically looks like Dr. Strange makes him pretty easy to rehabilitate.

It appears she was 31 at the time, which is a bit old for Banacek, I think your recollection is at fault here.

This kind of record takes up an unreasonably large part of my collection, my focus is '83-87 in general and there's something about super-corny hip-hop that I can't resist. I don't have this one, I guess it's a good pick because it's not really entertaining at all and it's nine and a half minutes. If he hated "Zip Zap…

Yeah but that's not even relevant because there's no link, you just get autism *and* measles.

I can't really deny the last point but I think there's something to be said for his way of working too. It's good that not everybody does it, I like the Stanley Kubricks of the world too, but I like having a new Woody Allen every year (although the last one I saw was Melinda and Melinda) and I like guys like Altman…

"And so on"