I still remember seeing the trailer for this and thinking how surreal it looked. Sounds like it lives up to that impression.

I read the Richard Pevear translation of that (Larissa not needed, since there was no Russian involved).

I read The Labyrinth of Solitude and One Earth, Four or Five Worlds and liked them a lot. I'll keep that collection in mind, because I enjoy Paz as a thinker.

I'm close to finishing Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, an Isaiah Berlin collection about the backlash against Enlightenment rationalism and attempts to develop a system of universal values. Basically, Berlin's ideas about multiculturalism and values pluralism (as well as mysticism).

The committee actually voted the 1940 Pulitzer to Hemingway for For Whom The Bell Tolls, but the board vetoed that award.

The real crime these cops should be investigating is how few people watch this show.

I've read 23 of the 48 Booker winners so far, so I'm gradually getting there.

Starting next year, any English-language novel released in the UK will be eligible.

The last Booker awarded before they let the Yanks in, which will inevitably ruin everything.

He sang a song about flying there, so probably.

TV advertisers don't want to be advertising in shows that deal with abortion, as I understand it.

Ed Brubaker's Criminal: Last of the Innocent comic story, which was a murder mystery featuring a bunch of grown up stand-ins for Archie Comics characters, also had a private investigator who was clearly supposed to be a grown-up Encyclopedia Brown.

Yeah, I was going to say that Glen or Glenda would be the exception, since he is attempting a serious subject there (poorly). But your supposed political commentary in Plan 9 is definitely not actual political commentary, it's the characters acting in hilariously inconsistent ways.

Any "insights" in Ed Wood movies were almost certainly unintentional.

The D'Onofrio/LaMarche bit completely takes me out of what is otherwise a very well-written scene. It may be aesthetically intentional, but it just doesn't work for me.

I wouldn't call it "puzzling". They're not making mistakes, they're intentionally departing from history for dramatic effect.

They're not lazy. They've done quite a bit of research (hence, for instance, Ichabod employing the proper forms of address for single women in the 18th century in addressing "Miss Mills" and "Miss Jenny"). They just choose when they want to be faithful.

I liked that moment, because I hate trying to remove those things.

There have been various indicators that they intermarried with the local Indian populations.

Superhero comics have competing considerations, but the strong runs balance the need for drama and development against the fact that in a lot of respects the characters can't go anywhere. Serialization was the only place the genre could go to avoid becoming stale, and to develop its complexity.