Me too. I enjoyed the article and I was impressed that Violent J seems to have a nice perspective on his music and the fans.

This is the same week as lawnmower foot episode was last year, isn't it?

I just looked it up and I apparently stopped in the middle of the eleventh book. I always meant to finish but never did. I'll put the last 2.5 books a little higher on my list!

I really loved Waltz With Bashir.

I actually thought it got worse. I stopped reading about 3/4 of the way through. I really liked them though, I laughed a lot and thought they were quite clever. Daniel Handler is friends with a former manager of mine and I was always hoping to wangle an introduction.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!

Yeah, Julian Koenig. It was an interesting episode.

Good point.

Yeah, I stopped being annoyed by her and now think she's funny, esp. "Do you want me to buy him or her a present?" and when she called Don Roger.

Right on (), Whatever I say, Sarah2k and Steve Holt!

I never liked Joan for almost all the show - she's NOT the kind of woman other women like. I only liked Joan after Jane showed up and out-bitched her, and when she lost her power in the office, etc. She really was a total bitch in this episode, especially to Peggy. I think Peggy has drawn a great job of carving out a…

I loved that scene so much! Like Don, I also love swimming without being very good at it (although I think Don's better than I am) and I also smoke after leaving the gym.

On a different note, sick of hearing "grown up" as a vague and demeaning stand-in for "thoughtful discourse." Writing "be a grown-up" is clearly meant to sound insulting in addition to making your point. I think that what people usually mean by this is that they feel that someone's emotional reaction to a comment or…

I might be in the minority, but one of my favorite things about the show is that I really cared about the characters. Especially the rare scenes between Michael and Lindsey, or Michael and George Michael, when you can see how much they care about each other. I think the genuine emotional moments are just as well done…

She's kind of hot now.

Good points. I think that referential art has the advantage of poetry, where the thing about poetry (to me) is that it uses random words to paint a series of images or evocations that add up to some emotional effect. In the same way a referential work paints this series of evocations of concepts, situations,…

Yeah the depth of things left to discover is really amazing. I've seen probably all of it four or five times so far (I just watched it for the first time last November - I had been resisting b/c it was so popular - I'm like that but I got over myself long enough to start, thank god) and the last time I watched part of…

Joey is so fucking cute. I love his sweater vests. I almost totally lost it when he was doing the Joe Namath accent.

I really disliked the third season of Breaking Bad (well, that's sort of a bald faced lie because I like Breaking Bad more than Mad Men, but I was really disappointed by it). It PALES in comparison to season two of Breaking Bad, the best season of television ever on television. Season three of Mad Men far surpassed…

I think wanting someone to respect you enough not to actively try to sleep with you, but at the same time wishing you were sexually compelling enough so that he would try to, is a fairly common female experience. One sort of knows better but it's a superficial yet very real insecurity.