I think there's a few people Dutchily located on these boards. And cheers for the drinks offer; it'd be nice to meet a real live AV Clubber at some point. I'll be sure to put out the bat (Prole Hole) signal on this site next time I make it into Amsterdam.

Hi @avclub-64ad8f3af92ef8d9a1c7dfd7265e577d:disqus . I'm replying here because I couldn't reply to your earlier comment to me, and I figured the best place to respond would be under a post about cum fritters.
I'm in Rotterdam, the all-business response to you debauched Amsterdamers. Although I do live 30 seconds from…

Oh, I'd forgotten about that, so fair point for Dan to make. Thanks for the reminder @avclub-269c32c42897f617fe805887bbd9c5b4:disqus and @avclub-d009e8b6ce98ad61a7b7a69cd1ad10d9:disqus. I live in the Netherlands now, so don't exactly have to deal with many repressive porn laws here….

What's he talking about when he says that porn laws aren't something to love about Canada? That genuinely confused me. As an ostensible Canadian, I can't say I ever ran into trouble with the country's porn laws, but I'm far from an expert (on the laws that is).

I always had my suspicions that Kathy Griffin was, in fact, a gay man.

I think it's spelled 'stalk-y'.

I like how they let an elderly yeti join the band.

What does 'relevant' have to do with anything? I mean, a poorly-written blog post on rising levels of personal debt would be more 'relevant' than a beautifully written novel, I suppose, but I know which one I'd rather read and call 'best'.

Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest are truly mind-blowing books for me (and probably the only ones I'd call mind-blowing in that particular way), the type I really love but could not for the life of me explain (or even explain why I liked them so much).

I haven't really been blown away by anything I've read this year, unfortunately. I'm usually a fiction guy, but the best things I've read so far have been non-fiction. I'm halfway through American Prometheus, the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which is really good, as was the Devil in the White City, about the…

Huh, when somebody says 'turn of the century', I still assume the beginning of the 20th century, so decided you must be about 130 years old. I guess that knee-jerk response dates me as well.

@avclub-64ad8f3af92ef8d9a1c7dfd7265e577d:disqus I actually like Rotterdam quite a bit; it's got its charms, but I need to get out and explore it a bit more. Cheers for the biertje invitation, and same goes if you ever find yourself in Rotterdam for some reason!

Sorry, had to reply here as couldn't seem to reply to your relevant message.

Prole Hole!
Ik ben Canadese! Ik kan nederlands spreken, maar niet goed! Ik woon in Rotterdam voor 6 maanden. Het spijt me maar I speak Canadian better. Ik wil nederlands spreken, though.

Actually I live in Rotterdam, Amsterdam's dirtier, more working class sister (not that I have a problem with the proles out there). I have not got any diseases yet, so far as I know.

Well, I think I'm doing pretty well on the catastrophic personal failure front right now. We'll see how that goes. I mean I can only keep moving further east, maybe to a sweat shop in Thailand.

Fucking ouch, but true. It's what I try to do when I notice that I'm living in the Netherlands for some reason, doing a job I don't like. I don't think I did very well on the whole 'life plan' front.

Listen: I'm just going to keep assuming that the AV Club is run by a bunch of 6'5'' angry black guys. It's better that way.

Wait, THAT'S what Kyle Ryan looks like? I always assumed he was a 6'5'' angry black guy.

Henry Selick is the one I thought of. Coraline was a beautiful example of meticulous stop-motion animation.