I've been reading Rick Perlstein's book about Reagan's first campaign for the presidency in 1976, which begins at the end of the Vietnam war, and it's interesting to see how how the end of Vietnam and Watergate basically helped create the rhetoric of the US as perfect and infallible that helped bring conservatives…

Nixon wins the contest for actually prolonging the war by scuttling the negotiations between the Johnson administration and the North Vietnamese so that he'd win the election, as was recently revealed in the declassified Nixon tapes. Dude was actually guilty of treason.

Me too. Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons is my favorite by far, then Misery is a Butterfly. I didn't really get into 23, but I should give it more of a listen. It sounds like I'm pretty much done after that.

The experience of watching the Seventh Seal is deeply enhanced by Samuel Jackson shilling for Capital One every few minutes.

All of this reminds me of the outcry when J.K. Rowling announced that (IS THIS A SPOILER ALERT SINCE IT DOESN"T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOKS? I'LL LET YOU DECIDE) Dumbledore was gay. There may be plenty of subtextual evidence to confirm or deny this (I'm sure as shit not going to do that much…

Clearly it should be Furosil.

Possibly, but that doesn't make it interesting. Personally, if I'm in the market for pervy pics, I prefer Gilbert Hernandez.

Yeah, his stuff looks like 1970s-era industrial clip art, only a lot pervier than a bunch of office workers hanging around a water cooer

It'd be especially great if it came with an empty box.

Otherwise known as a knife addled rape shed.

According to the estate of Marvin Gaye, he is the white version of Marvin Gaye.

He'll always be the guy who yelled about Wallace Beery to Barton Fink.

I feel like Lost's fundamental flaw is of a piece of one of the major influences that its creators often mentioned, the works of Stephen King. Like King, they were good at throwing a lot of ideas into the pot, and in creating strong, well drawn characters to navigate the world they created, but when it came to…

It wasn't for nothing. You got chlamydia. Isn't that enough?

Keep

He has encased his opinions in a one, two, three lock box.

I was actually really irritated by that, maybe because I recently moved to Seattle, and like most recent transplants to a new city, I am something of a self-righteous prick about how great it is.

That's mainly because "Got To Give It Up" is a great song.

Your place in the aristocracy is determined by a series of blowjobs.

The answer is always Led Zeppelin.