Yeah they can carry leprosy. When I moved to Texas I was all excited to maybe see an armadillo so I was reading about them and learned that.

Yeah, I don't feel as strongly as leaving the AV Club over it but it seems like the flagging process is no longer functioning well as intended.

You were a monkey in a play your niece wrote? I feel like you win the pop culture weekend. That's awesome.

Haha! I genuinely spent a while contemplating if I could drive down to see you and K somehow during this trip, given the comparatively short distance. However we were on a pretty tight agenda and I was amongst family I don't see often enough.

Wow, can you elaborate? Where do you live? Were you worried about leprosy? Was it actually IN the house or in the walls or burrowing under it or something?

That reminds me of one of my favorite maxims "The past is already stepped on" (from the Spanish). I like it because it's definitely not my natural impulse to feel that way.

@avclub-9da69292e584b8204f05c2be827c0347:disqus I love Ilya Repin. I've never been to Petersburg though.

Wow, really? I can't imagine thinking that about The Idiot. I can totally see it with Demons though (and this season of Mad Men gave me that same impression over and over again). I think the characters are so fascinating. Can you say what exactly gave you such a strong impression?

Hi everyone. I was on vacation for the past two weekends and week. We went to Rocky Mountain National Park. It was a great time. Lots of driving though. Did I miss anything here?

@LetoII:disqus I feel both ways. I liked those days quite a lot (incidentally, I actually think that the first thread in this article kinda did do that "insane gimmick of a gimmick of a gimmick thread that would just keep going into pure absurdity—and nobody cried about it either" thing). But I like talking to people…

I kind of like Disqus. It goes really well with my penchant for inconsistent reward.

Mine is probably War and Peace, although I'm still just slightly over halfway through it.
I also reread Repeat After Me by Rachel DeWoskin this winter, which I read for the first time last year. It's maybe my favorite book, ever. I love it when you read something that makes you feel totally understood as a person.…

I think it was me who recommended Danilo Kis? I don't remember reading anyone else talking about him on here. Really glad you liked it!

@avclub-0753839534b94e471fbc2c0fa56ada15:disqus Sure, obviously you have the best perspective on it than I do from my limited experience as an outsider. I didn't mean that the existence of memorials literally prevents people from moving on (and your point that building memorials can allow people to say "Here, we…

@TaumpyTearrs:disqus There are definitely parts of it I watched with my eyes closed. Maybe like 40% even. I actually owned it once, specifically for the shock value showing it to my friends. It's definitely the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.

@Scrawler2:disqus Yeah, that sounds exactly right. I'd describe myself as Christian in the religious way, even though I will describe myself ethnically as Jewish which I guess is weird. I'm vaguely religious but only in very specific contexts. I definitely don't include it as part of my identity but I will say…

I'm American and I also have the sense that the German school system places a lot of emphasis on the Holocaust. (I've studied the Holocaust and its reception in memorials and other
forms of representation, so this is something I've given some thought
to.) I've also seen a lot of convincing evidence that suggests that…

I never thought about that, but you're totally right.

The Curb theme is so perfect though.

The book or the movie? The book is ok - not awesome but kind of neat. I read it during my Michael Crichton phase. He wrote it on a bet, he was telling someone Beowulf was the most boring story in the universe and someone dared him to write an interesting version of it. I really liked the movie. I love that kind of…