In math I do, actually. My snobbishness is a transparent attempt to compensate for my incompetence with numbers. I'm being partly facetious, though the quality of the criticism does vary fairly markedly (and I don't mean according to publication prestige or circulation, necessarily). So I guess my banal point is…

The problem with the Tomatometer is that it aggregates the opinions of those whose opinions are credible and worthless alike. What's the approval percentage for the five people worth reading?

Those crazy sons of bitches burned a million quid in a boat off the Isle of Jura! A million quid!

Martial who?

And he did that Wallace Stevens biopic. It's like he's pissing all over the Western canon merely to satiate his clearly insatiable ego. He has to be stopped by any means necessary.

Though he has his detractors, I think Harold Bloom's interpretation, referring as it does to the book's apparent gnostic themes and likening The Judge to Iago, is very astute.

One of the greatest novels ever would need to become one of the greatest films ever not to disappoint and what are the odds of that? The danger is that someone less talented than Scott will now make it.

Heaven help us. Like "Cormac McCarthy's Op-Center™"?
A greater wit than I can come up with an original title for the series.

This looks good though I hope McCarthy is going to finish that next novel he's supposedly been working on. The Road was one of the best things I've ever read.

I love me some polysyndeton

And we laugh while, unbeknownst to us, you are completely unhinged and deadly serious.

Mike Love / Greg Ginn / Mark McGrath supergroup.

As someone who isn't a particularly great devotee of the band, I found this album perfectly cromulent. Better than C+ I would've thought.

I can't get enough music for homework advice. I'm waiting for them to start that discussion one day.

You must mold her tastes to accord with your own. She will thank you in time.

She looks damn good in that photo.

Because you knew that if you took it you wouldn't be able to carry on living after the trial period without it, right?

You hate the band or you're observing that others here hate the band? I, for one, can't conceive how anyone could possibly hate this band.

I have and find them very affecting. Is she claiming to be oppressed in the same way that people who live in, say, Haiti (as her parents did) are? People who the band have worked to raise money for seemingly because they care? Hardly. Is anyone else claiming that people living in relative comfort in advanced…

I want to watch this but I don't know if I want to enough to "like" Entertainment Weekly.