I say we take the reviewer of V. and put them on Justified duty so we can have tag-team reviews about how awesome Timothy Olyphant.

All writing is improved
by unspoken F-bombs.

I myself liked "Boy, what'd I tell you about talking to anyone about anything?"

What he said.

Take a drink whenever you expect the next thing a character will do is kick another in the genitals.

See, from the promos I figured this show would be like Harper's Island, a totally insane and terrible television show that I watched every episode of out of a combination of terrified fascination and outright masochism.

dougery: No, no, it's going to be Tyler Perry who's doing the stabbing.

What will happen to the jive-talking robots, though?

House of Whacks

Hence why it's funny!

Roger's disguise
He actually was dressed exactly like Paul Giamatti from the film Sideways the entire time. It was easily the funniest part of a very funny episode, imagining Paul Giamatti burying people alive.

I haven't read much Dyer besides Venice/Varanasi because I have a small mountain of other books to push through, though his Burning Man profile was quite nice.

A few suggestions
Roberto Bolano - 2666 (part 4 only) - Bolano's book is a masterpiece, but it's especially true for part 4, which toes the line between fiction and non- by thoroughly deconstructing one of the most horrifying places on the planet, Juarez in Mexico, and how that horror affects individual people and our…

Oh, yeah, Courage the Cowardly Dog. So awesome.

The Cartoon Network
and its components. Not the current Cartoon Network, with its heavy mix of anime and adult entertainments, but back when it showed a heavy mix of old Hanna-Barbera and Warner Brothers cartoons. Sure, not all of it was great, but it's still entertaining, and I get a (probably unholy) kick out of…

That, and one could make an argument that Hobbes pouncing Calvin is a reflection of the disintegration of the Reagan-era nuclear family and is a metaphor for child abuse in response to that disintegration.

No, no, I have no problem with the nymphet thing, it's just that the above phrase is so badly written it makes me instinctively reach for the nearest style guide to throw at Rabin's head.

"paraded before the public at a young age as a teen nymphet. "
Oof.

Yes, it is A Thing. A Very Fucking Awesome Thing.

1990. Yes, I'm 13 years younger than the film my user name references.