Not sure "self-respect" would be the right tack to take. As a person of liberal politics who comes from a conservative family and a conservative larger culture, I've encountered this assumption that there's a degree of harassment (though the folks who think this way wouldn't classify it as such until it crossed a…

Yeah, having read the comments on this page, I'm stunned at the virulence of the response to the covers. The complacency it reflects is a little disheartening. Is it that easy to make a judgment on whether the works are worthy or not?

This thread turned into a Bojack Horseman scene before my eyes. I like it.

Damn—I'd have expected more AV Clubbers to have read Ferrante than this comment section would indicate. Give the Neapolitan novels a shot, I'd say. They're quite good.

Just got around to starting this, and I just want to say the opening credits are fantastic, the sound and the visuals.

I'm saving that line for the next time I need to succinctly explain to someone why "let's see you try it" is a stupid response to criticism of a piece of art.

AJ in these screencaps…so good!

I really wish they'd retire the whole "Becky Balboa" thing. It feels like the last irritating vestige of Smackdown as run by Vince McMahon…

I just want to live in a reality where Toby Huss thinks the world of me

Commenting on this waaaay late, but—-True. And I think The Shield still gets a lot of healthy appreciation for staying strong—really, getting steadily stronger—all throughout its run. Sad that Oz has been so absolutely ignored for being more uneven. (But forgivably so, I always thought… In any case, I'll always admire…

I don't want to say much about the book till I've read it, but… Having read a recent Guardian piece where McEwan delivered a lot of the same tired criticism of millenials and their (identity) politics that the literary old-guard keeps making, I'm even less excited for moves like "fetus wonders about global politics"…

There have also been a lot of seeming misses from established authors lately. This book, and Tom Wolfe's latest, and Gay Talese's…

I think he kinda does, but Kevin's the safer answer because Bruce's work is so weird the others don't always know what to make of it; it's easier to just not consider. I'll admit I always bristle when I hear the Kids' commentaries on their sketches because they're always silent when one of Bruce's comes on, or they…

I remember one interview in which the other Kids said Kevin was the best to work with because he was always willing to work on a sketch, even when they themselves knew it wouldn't work or wasn't that good, while the rest would often be all too quick to dismiss it or tear it down.

Kevin McDonald seems like such a fun interview. Incidentally, it's funny how obvious his characteristic speech patterns are in his answers here.

I know "hobbling" is a fun pun to make here, both because it's pirates and because Long John Silver's in it, but dudes, don't mistake that for a comment on the quality of the show. First season's a little rough in places but man, does it get good.

Best part of reading that review: moving to the L. A. Times's note at the very end that invites you to drop by when "Jonathan Safran Foer reads from 'Here I Am' in L.A."…

Yeah, it's always seemed to me Miz heels it up in most UUDD
segments because it's what he's comfortable with—and definitely very good at—with the rest of the performers jokingly playing along.

Oh I know, it's why I said "another great moment"; that promo was the first, naturally.

Another great Miz moment tonight: the face he pulls just after he tells Maryse he might be the next Indiana Jones.