Just like to say that John Teti is doing well with all these newswires lately. Usually when people other than O'Neal write newswires they just embarrass themselves terribly, but Teti's done a good job.

I'll be kind of a dick here.

It's understandable that people would be getting any kind of spelling or grammar wrong. I think the point was that they are using a more obscure phrase so it seems like they are knowledgeable, when they really don't know what the fuck they're talking about.

"Hey Derek, you know what's good for shoulder pain?"
"Affordable health care?"
"Yes."

Hannah seems fun.

The sad thing is he's not far off.

Seeing Playtime in 70mm was probably the best movie-going experience I've had or will ever have.

I almost attended University of Illinois, which would have probably meant I would have gone to this festival. Always wanted to go. Maybe someday, but I really am looking forward to this documentary.

The ill shouldn't speak of the dead.

I mean, both wearing whiteface and blackface are playing with and humorizing the history of blackface, I'm not sure if there's much difference between the two. But at the same time I doubt your relatives are thinking about subversive comedy, rather it's more "people called a white person racist for that, a black…

Very true. Which is why you don't really see it in many comedies besides teen movies. Even the raunchy comedies they have today don't have a lot of nudity, and when they do, it's usually dicks.
So I guess the general consensus is dicks are funny, tits aren't.

The most nudity I can remember from Curb is the scene where Kramer is distracted by all the pictures of breasts in the restaurant.
Other than that I can't think of another instance. Which is interesting because there's plenty of sexual situations that they could have easily thrown nudity into.

Why?

I was actually speaking more of the shows themselves. Like whether the producers or whoever have to include a certain amount of nudity-per-season. I know it has to be negotiated with the actresses, but sometimes the nudity just comes from random women that we never hear speak or see again, I'm guessing a lot of them…

Does anyone know if there's some clause in an HBO contract for showing boobs or something like that? I'm not joking, this is actually something I've been wondering about. Obviously there's the expectation and pressure for boobs to be shown, but I wonder if there's anything actually written about it.

I've honestly never even seen a full episode of CSI, I just thought because of how gruesome the murders were there was somecomparison. Interesting take though, like I said I'm still watching it so maybe I'll start to see that soon.

The only good things on there are South Park and the Criterion Collection. And you could just watch South Park on its own website, like the majority of the shows they have.

Can anyone explain to me the appeal of Hannibal? I am kind of catching on that it's set in a fantasy world and each episode will feature around some crazy murder, but that isn't quite enough for me. Just seems like a cooler, better looking CSI so far. I am still watching it though, so it is good, I'm just not picking…

I always just assumed Bubba Gump was a thing before Forrest Gump, given all the other real things the movie has Gump start: Apple, shit happens, stuff like that.

Bambi 2 was pretty good, honestly.