@Tom
Of course no religion—or any organization of multiple people—can be purely monolithic, and I certainly never suggested that an individual should be attacked or feared on the basis of their creed—in fact, I did try to make a clear distinction between personal and institutional criticism in my first post; apologies…

Islam is a pretty dogmatic, conservative institution—it is and should be subject to all the same criticisms as Catholicism and Republicanism and whatnot. An individual should, of course, always be judged based on their actions rather than their labels, but there's no bigotry in criticizing a religious institution for…

With all that hype about hating hooks,
this was a pretty common sense position; nobody likes to feel manipulated.

I put that song on a mix cd for a girlfriend once, she always skipped it when it came on. That's pretty much both sides of why things didn't work out.

RE: people who play D&D but don't look nerdy
Time to bust out the Vin Diesel vid: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

hell yeah.

I'm watching my figure.

Fair point, QLE. I am fully comfortable owning this as my own entirely personal, ridiculous opinion, but I stand by it. The only defense I'll offer is that while some bands work within genre formula and write albums around theme or unified sound, They Might Be Giants seem as though their only ambition is to put some…

It seems kind of pointless to assign letter grades to They Might Be Giants
because they are so entirely themselves. If you don't like a song, it's not because of any failure on their part—it's because they're doing whatever crazy stuff they feel like doing, and you can go with it or not.

hey guys,
your website's broken.

Calling it right now:
Alan Rickman, best supporting actor nom.

They Might Be Giants.
I was off the grid when that went up, so can we gush a little more about how fucking awesome it was? Joy, Grins, Love, etc!

I really dig the Malcolm X coda. When characters explicitly explain theme to each other, that's hamfisted. When they stand up and look you in the eye and tell you that this wasn't just a nice biography picture, that the story's arc extends into real fucking life, that's something else entirely, and something pretty…

I love that Lupe's verse becomes all about devastating social inequality…
…still perfectly backed by the peppy little pop beat before segueing back into generic hometown bluster—pushed a little farther, this could be the smartest Lonely Island track ever.

That Edge of Glory video is kind of bad.
Seriously, no consistent energy, shots that linger lifelessly for no reason, and the sax player is thrown onscreen at random before basically disappearing in the actual solo.

Totally agree. I think the Branagh factor really helped Thor out with the critics.

Aw.
Seeing Sirius again got me choked up real quick.

FUCK THAT GO GREEN!
naw, but ann arbor's nice, i'll read this.

Batman Forever, Iron Man 2, Thor, and now Green Lantern.
Endlessly cheesy, pointlessly bombastic, thematically laughable, and I secretly sort of enjoy them all.

Also, for whatever it's worth, Christianity, drug use, party affiliation and military service are all indisputably lifestyle choices. Homosexual attraction, not so much.