Check baby check baby check one two… I mean, I agree.

Joe Pope killed in 9/11? Cool idea, but not likely considering some of "us" were still at the company even into September. Also, they went to call him and seemed sure enough he would answer, toward the end, as if they had done that before. (Kind of weird in itself. Were they friends with him now?)

Amber was evidently some kind of flippered freak.

Suggestion for another WUiB Selection…
…if the whole year isn't already plotted out.

The NBK script is SO much better than Stone's movie. I LOVE that script—but I'm not crazy about the movie. The script uses the TV documentary conceit to such great effect, giving most of the film over to it, whereas the movie is mostly just a cartoonish mess.

BEHOLD THE MAN sounds great. Thanks for the mention.

This is the second interview I've read of Ferris's—
—And honestly, I'm always a little disappointed by him. His stance on his books seems frustratingly like Tarantino's on his films—way too reductionist, way too simplistic and tweren't-nuthin'-ish. When I read THEN WE CAME TO THE END, or saw INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS,…

I have never seen any of the prequels. And I don't plan to. The trailers looked awful, and the marketing for them was ubiquitous enough that I feel I have a good enough idea of what they were all about.

Read CAN'T STOP, WON'T STOP: A HISTORY OF THE HIP-HOP GENERATION. One of the best music books I have ever read, and I've read a lot of them. No matter how you feel about the subject, you will walk away with a new appreciation of its value and amazingness.

The Right's politicized reaction KIND OF makes me want to see it, if only to spite the Vatican, Laura Ingraham, and all those other deadly morons who dismiss acceptance of climate change as some sort of liberal religion.

Sorry, KING KONG. KING KING was great. It was about Jesus.

I am not a Peter Jackson fan—though I do recall HEAVENLY CREATURES being interesting and resonant. As for LORD OF THE RINGS, I had never read the books and so the movies just seemed inaccessible to me. The second one felt like the worst of THE ILIAD, just one unending battle scene, and they all just felt like pieces…

That movie was AWFUL. We couldn't finish it. Not funny at all. Not anything good.

Good point.

I saw CRASH when it first came out on DVD, and though I found it a bit long and somewhat cheesy, I remember kind of enjoying it. What'd I miss?

At least people here are pissed and despondent about the Supreme Court verdict. Around my house I have to explain it for ten minutes before I see anything expressed above totally apathy or arguments like "But don't corporations employ lots of real people?"

I laughed a few times, but "Hilarious"? Hardly.

One last thing this reminded me of…
…In its elusive unnamed narration, it reminded me a bit of Robbe-Grillet's JEALOUSY. That was in an impersonal first-person that never mentioned I, me, mine, or my, but it contained some similar set-ups. Like in this, when "we" i.e. "I" would pop into an office to say something,…

Missed it.
But Tasha mentioned my totem pole question! I like the idea that Benny just lied about it to get people to leave him alone. I think it symbolized a connection to something older and closer to the Earth—or maybe, I just thought of this, the historical origins of the American WE.

Holy crap, J.D. Salinger is dead. Thanks for the heads-up, fellas.