In short: What the fuck?

I mean, that's like saying Animal Collective hasn't lived up to Tori Amos.

Where did that come from?

I can barely imagine loving music and not loving "My Favorite Year," one of the best songs of 2008 for sure.

Okay…maybe. But that's exactly the opposite of what I always thought about Tarantino. I thought the Kill Bills were full of misogny, as was Grindhouse—though more so in Rodriguez's half of that. He always includes scenes in which women are just brutalized….

People that mock the French's role in World War II fail to take into account the horrific death count that France suffered in World War I. When France decided not to fight Germany, it was with those enormous losses in mind.

My thoughts exactly. Good comment.

The Smiths with Billy Bragg instead of Morrissey?
I was listening to some early '90s Billy Bragg the other day, with this thread in the back of my mind, and it occurred to me:

Yeah, I don't know if it'd be worth it without Mark. I suppose they could get the only other two-string slide bassist, that guy from the Presidents of the United States, but…well, we're really talking about a step down here then.

Bob Dylan and Morphine
I remember an Alaskan winter spent listening to a ton of Bob Dylan, particularly World Gone Wrong and Time Out of Mind, and a ton of Morphine, from Good to Yes, and thinking just what a perfect back-up band Morphine could be for Dylan. Dana Colley's sinister, mood-setting sax, paired with…

Two weddings…
I eloped and got married in the desert, by my wife's Internet-ordained best friend. We were driving to a ghost town, Hagan, New Mexico, but the dirt road was washed out from a storm, so we just pulled over, got out among red rocks in a blooming-pink cholla cactus field, and got married right there. …

I adore P.G. Wodehouse…
…but it seems a bit dishonest to me to say that there's much of a difference at all between almost any of his stories.

So hilarious. Great story.

"Ten Little Kids."

RE: "We were supposed to have [improbable futuristic invention] by now! Wasn't the futurology of yesteryear naive?"

I still feel honestly, unironically, compelled to stand by JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS as one of the absolutely most enjoyable movies I have ever seen. I can only hope the Archie movie is half as good.

Reggie-what is with him? He's mean, he's nice, he's mean, he's nice…
To Burl, who mentioned how confusing Reggie's character has often been—

Enjoyable, but imperfect…
This film was enjoyable, I thought, though it got off to a choppy start, the supporting characters were mostly indistinguishable from one another, and some of the politics behind it were, it seemed to me at least, highly questionable. For instance, there's more than one torture scene in the…