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i was recently asked to explain how this show was different from "family affair" and came up empty. anyone care to give it a shot?

to paraphrase tom cruise, angrypaw, don't be glib. the let the fact that it's the consensus here at the av club that pixar is awesome let you be swayed away from the fact that pixar is, in fact, awesome. also, don't let the inevitable backlash ("i never liked pixar" or "pixar was only good up until bug's life, it…

a.o. scott in the times insists that the 3-d enhances the inherent depth and beauty of most scenes, adding more to view in the lovely tableau of the film.

smooth speak and spell, real smooth.

i hope that's arizona cards, because otherwise it makes no damn sense.

g-money:

lincolns revenge:

i dat ninja:

as good as that was, the best three parts:

it's not my fault. she asked what my interests were.

donna:
my current girlfriend fell asleep during "singin' in the rain." i was tempted to break up with her on the spot. should i?

you know, i'm damn glad i wasn't a public figure of any sort when i was 15, and even more glad that i'm not a public figure at 15 now. because damn would i have done a lot of things that would have really pissed people like you off.

having been through both private and public mental health care centers, i can assure you that the difference was stark. not that the private institution necessarily cured anything the public one didn't (or couldn't), but one was a relatively pleasant and helpful experience (as far as these things go) and one was pure…

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time to dig rabbit, run out of storage and give in a spin.

i had this exact same reaction to everything i've ever listened to by bird, which echoes why a poster above suggested an album such as this must grow on a listener. nothing about bird ever really knocks me out, only impresses me quite a bit before i begin to appreciate the subtleties and wonder buried in it.

i was with you guys till smoking. the day my food/drink gives people who don't partake in it cancer i guess i'll stop.

but you see, ferengi are obsessed with money. therefore they = jews.

really, you should have two lists.

yup, it adds a huge amount of depth and emotional awareness for them to suggest that a lot of the daring and bravery kirk displays (things we think of as good qualities) actually stem from something which, unchecked, is negative. decent people learn how to appropriately balance these sorts of things. it's exactly…

since, according to the eventual canon, earth was never at war with vulcan, pegging them as the japanese doesn't really fit either, despite genetic similarities between vulcans and romulans. think of those analogies as loose approximations of what the original intent was rather than hard and fast parallels and you'll…