@Mjp

The thing is, everyone talks about how incongruous the production is, but at this point I really can't picture the album without it. I mean, "Our Town" is probably the heaviest production on the album, but it's also the best-suited I think.

I think you could probably say that Wasp Star was a little more directly "rock" sounding than Black Sea but Black Sea is no slouch either. Even though Drums and Wires gets my vote for best SL-produced XTC album.

"You order shit, you eat shit"
I don't know about anyone else, but the Richard Pryor bit "Chinese Food" from Wanted Live in Concert always puts me in the mood for, strangely enough, Chinese Food.

This column takes me back
to Fall 2004, when I took Intro to Media. Seriously, this could've been a lecture from that class, verbatim. It makes me nostalgic for those halcyon days when majoring in Communication & Culture seemed like a good idea.

This movie taught moviemakers a valuable lesson
You name your movie after a Hole song, you pay the price.

Dark Man X
For a while back in college I tried to refer to myself as "CMX," or "Caucasian Man of Nothingness." It didn't really catch on.

That ain't your fuckin' name. Your mama ain't name you no damn Mc Wren.

This thread becomes about a million times funnier if you imagine that ZMF is talking about Tanya Donnelly's band, not the movie.

@Cultural Reference

I think it's pointless to compare the first hour with the second. The Office and 30 Rock are in completely different places as shows than Community and Parks are. They're both still funny, but they no longer have visceral thrill of watching a sitcom in full go-for-broke flight that Community and Parks have.

Look, I understand that everyone on AV Club was required to love the nurse character because everyone is now required to hate Jim and Pam and love anyone who puts them in their place, but the fact is, maybe a DOCTOR could pull this shit off, or like I said before the daycare director guy, but someone like a nurse…

I don't think I'm being a snob by saying that. By "low-level job" I basically just mean "anyone with a boss they have to answer to." I've never worked anything but wage-slave jobs and I was speaking from experience, saying that had I or anyone else I worked with said anything like that to a customer, they would've…

"This is a song, kids, called 'Dayton, Ohio.' You know, did Journey ever write a song called 'San Francisco, California'? No. Never. They did write 'When the Lights Go Down in the City.' That's bullshit. 'When the Lights Go Down in the City.' That's fuckin' gross. When you write a song about your city where you're…

I wasn't thinking specifically of just nurses as being chipper or whatever, I meant in the broader sense that no one in a relatively low-level job like that would be able to say things like "great, you know everything" to a patient/customer without the people then complaining to their boss about it. At my old job I…

No idea why this showed up twice. I posted one comment earlier tonight that vanished into the ether, and now this shit.

The beastfeeding scenes in this episode were the first time I thought to myself, "you know, maybe The Office would be better if it was on HBO."

I thought the nurse scenes were funny, but were completely, glaringly unrealistic. The daycare director was at least plausible since he seemed to be his own boss, but there is absolutely no way a nurse could think she could get away with talking to patients like that. I mean, it was funny, but it really stuck out like…

you're like an angel without wings
so like a person

I still have this weird memory
from when I was like 8 years old, I was standing at the bus stop with a bunch of kids and one girl kept pronouncing bagels "baggles."