My impression of House of Leaves from what I've heard is the author took a perfectly reasonable metaphor and decided to make it a major plot point too. It all amounts to a face-slappingly obvious point.

Yeah, Roberto Bolano is definitely awesome and 2666 should be on this list. Oh, and Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas, which I acquired on a whim in an airport bookstore based on its review in the New York Times and instantly loved.

I also enjoyed the driving level, though the boat level was a bit awkward since the vehicle's movement control was iffy. I would have played a game that consisted entirely of Gordon Freeman driving from destroyed town to destroyed town, looting shit and killing zombies. Kinda like Fallout 3, but with Gordon Freeman.

Hurrah for simulposting!

Anyone who doesn't
include Half-Life 2 on their list is wrong wrong wrong. It's scary how well that game still stands up to FPS games today.

The trailer to this film is quite awesome, too: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I think the actor's failure is entirely the book's fault; based on the few pages I could will myself to read before the awful writing ripped the book from my hands and flung it across the store, the dialogue could be read by that Microsoft voice emulator program with no loss in emotional content. Basically, it's Benny…

If this entire Dibala caterwaul
was just setup to get Jennifer Morrison off the show, then man, have the writers really just gotten awful over the course of the last few seasons. Hell, even Amber's death had gravity, and not only was that 1.5 seasons ago, she was a secondary character at best. What the hell,…

This show makes me sad
I'm seriously tempted to stop watching if it keeps going down the tube like this. I figured it couldn't get this bad, what with Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard working so well together, and I had some hope looking at the promos that we could get another crazy road-trip episode like Son of…

Well, to be fair, he did argue against firsties. But he still deserves some form of diabolical punishment for his anti-firstie. So what's the opposite of CancerAIDS?

At any rate, ZMF bitch.

Usually I agree with the Hater, but this post didn't make any sense to me. Of course there are unmentioned costs associated with personal human experience; their point by the "this isn't for everyone" line is that for the kind of person they're talking about, those costs are near-zero. Your two paragraphs describing…

I still wish they would have fit in a Shining parody in there somewhere. Maybe it would have stepped on too many "horror is the Simpsons' domain" toes, but man would that have been fun to watch.

Maybe, but here's the issue: House is the only really interesting character on the show. This season has gone bad (in one way) as Dexter has gone so much worse - making your main character too human removes any reason to pay attention to him in the first place. House in its first few seasons counterbalanced this by…

At this point, I'd rather just muck the entire cast (except Robert Sean Leonard, that guy is awesome) and have Hugh Laurie play all their parts.

You know what really bugged me about this episode? The show made a big deal about the dad's perverse belief in karma. Before, the show would have carried out a long discussion of that belief - see "House vs. God", "Here Kitty", etc. - but here, the only scene where it mattered was the one where the dad signs away all…

I know you're trying to be satirical, TomWaits, but… wow.

American Dad
I actually really enjoyed this episode. Steve is the kind of character well-suited to a run through Vietnam War cliches, and had a lot of fun with his part of it. Actually, basically every minute of the episode was awesome in its own way, including the bizarre Mind Quad bits.

American Dad
I actually really enjoyed this episode. Steve is the kind of character well-suited to a run through Vietnam War cliches, and had a lot of fun with his part of it. Actually, basically every minute of the episode was awesome in its own way, including the bizarre Mind Quad bits.

No, no, no. He looks like he's preparing for a cameo in the next Alvin and the Chipmunks movie.