Lord almighty, you can't tease a man around here. His poor heart cannot take it.

"Sorkin will have you know that opinions are only valid if they come from the very successful."

Man, I remember my Video Family…just cassettes with names and hats…the VCR didn't come till years later…

Honestly it's a little jarring to read such a middling review while Paul Rudd Himself is staring at me so openly and serenely from the sidebars.

Families with Low Self Esteem
I love how Tobias's video cover is a pitch-perfect parody of 90s-era Focus on the Family videos, right down to the font. I wish I could find an image of one…

Poor Joe
He tried to beat his wife, he nearly lose his life.

"Classically trained"
It's common to hear that Miles was classically trained, but that's not entirely true. He did go to Julliard, true, but really that was only a pretense for moving to New York and finding Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie (who he had seen in touring bands back home). He dropped out of Julliard…

you marry her off
you give her the boot
…she dies

Agreed. I had never actually read him before, but his incredible energy and passion is so infectious: He wakes up every morning full of ideas and can't wait to write them (In the very same issue, John Mcphee says it takes him all day to bring himself to write anything, which is much more typical of writers).

yeah, that bugged me watching it. Driving a limo that far just to drive it all the way back that same night.

For a moment I thought you were saying that the Gun Club was the AV Club's new department to report on Guns n' Roses-related news.

How was Pylon? I was looking a copy the other day and saw it was his only non-Yoknapombvyosmt County novel.

Soooo…
What's wrong with Alice's Restaurant?