I'm surprised Todd called it a "laugh line"; I didn't interpret it that way at all. I really appreciated Pete going off like that.

@avclub-df106893a4574bccb7bce1ff66e788b9:disqus I actually usually do crossword puzzles. I used to do it all the time, though I haven't in quite a while - I don't really have a neighborhood bar where I live now, sadly.

I love reading in bars. I read Resurrection by David Remnick, and the first book of Demons, at my bar. I remember almost nothing of Resurrection though I do feel I absorbed it, and Demons has a white cover and still has faint cranberry/vodka stains.

One of my good friends from college recently got back from Afghanistan and was visiting in town for the day. This guy is one of my favorite people in the world so I was so happy and excited. We have mutual friends who went to high school with him (whom I met via him, but they live near me so we've become friends…

Great post.

I'm not really sure what to say. I love the AV Club. I credit reading and participating in this site with a lot of what I consider to be parts of my identity. I started reading this site because of the Classic TV series on Buffy, in summer 2008. When the summer was over, I started reading the rest of the site and was…

I remember that!

I'm not crazy about it, but I can't think of a better way to do it. What I'm mostly not crazy about is how insane and fantasy/sci-fi the last couple seasons of Angel got in general, and I think my issues with the ending are more because of that than the ending in and of itself.

The Graduate may be about a very narrow period of one's life that is better related to from a position of nostalgia than of objective evaluation viewed against one's entire lifespan, but it's very successful, and it's more than that. I don't know for sure, because I'm still in my 20's, but my impression is that people…

I like Marie Antoinette fine, but the part at the beginning when they separate her from her dog was so sad to me that it colors the entire movie sadly for me. I watched it with my mom and I was trying so hard not to cry at it, even though my mom thought it was equally sad. I actually have to remind myself that they…

Man, I feel boring because I never ever have impossible daydreams. I daydream about living in graduate student housing, using my juicer more, sitting around drinking beer with the windows open this summer, riding my bike, etc.

@avclub-3a04d36f2c53226d9c27c607cea5e299:disqus I don't particularly hate Garden State, but I can certainly see its flaws. However, I can't help it, I really liked and still like the abyss line. Even though I think I'm the same age as the characters in it (? I'm 25) it strikes me as nostalgically evocative in the same…

@avclub-91709d92d8febf19deba2f8005950d9b:disqus I had the same reaction, but without Googling, because you already had.

I would describe something like "Together" as a slice of life movie . . . not Garden State. I don't even think that Garden State is intended to be a slice of life movie. I think it's intended to be a movie about those unusual, mildly transcendent experiences that temporarily lift us out of our quotidian routines and…

Oh yeah, Caitlin is not very likable objectively, but I found her really compelling nevertheless. I have an unfortunate tendency to like jerks (mostly applied toward my dating experience, not to female friends) so that may explain some of how I related to it, which is definitely not for everyone! I also read it for…

The thing that really gets me about it was the intense relationship between Vix and Caitlin (which is admittedly the entire theme of the book, so this is probably not too helpfully specific). I really identified with those feelings of captivation, admiration, wanting to be like her but not quite, etc. that Vix had for…

I flipped through a couple bad adult books by her, but I unequivocally love Summer Sisters. I've seriously reread it about ten times. I love that book so much.

!!! I feel exactly the same way. For some reason it is really hard to explain to people that I find thinking about space scary and depressing. So many people like space and space travel and I don't even want to think about it, and nobody can understand why I find it so depressing and awful.

@avclub-e57f718840a576abbb40a7d046c4e3b0:disqus It's especially funny because that's not even the right way to use the word. It's meant to have the connotation of being mundane, commonplace, normal, etc. It doesn't really just mean that something takes place every day.

That's been happening to me for the past week or so. Even when it doesn't see me as logged in at the top, I can still always comment in the actual comments though. Is that true of you?