Yeah he's only in movies and tv regularly.

Bill Burr on the craziness of Steve Jobs:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I always think of it as denoting a serious academic who is also influential socially/politically. But it could just mean somebody like Carl Sagan, who was a scientist and a popularizer of science. You're right that it isn't that clear a concept, but it's hardly as vague and wishy washy as "prophet".

Shit. I didn't read Shakespeare until grade 10. We were still reading shitty young adult fiction. I can count on one hand the worthwhile novels I read in school: To Kill a Mockingbird. Obviously read a couple o' Shakespeare.

"Prophet" is so vague to be essentially meaningless. Maybe a prophet can be safely construed as someone who (UGH!) speaks truth to (BLECH!) power. That was painful to have to say. Noam Chomsky might fit the bill, except for the grade school thing. I don't know about you guys, but I never got a chance to read Syntactic…

Congratulations for hinting at a joke.

Ill always hate him for all the time I willingly wasted on his podcast.

Best poem ever.

If this guy is a nerd, why is he handsome? And if he's a comedian, why isn't he funny?

Good hats, fags!

Everytime I read @Scrawler2:disqus 's name, I despise her/him/it because I think it's Sacrelicious, who I despise.

GG Allin. Real name: Jesus Christ Allin

What a terrible loss. Such an unfunny man dead so predictably.

A Serious Man is hilarious. That might be the most perfect structure for a movie. Things start out bad and get inexplicably worse and worse. Then for a second everything seems to be getting better, and then everything gets worse than ever and likely everything and everyone is doomed.

Cause he did the black face at the Friar's Club with the Whoopie and the Goldberg, said Bill Cosby.

Holy shit I want that to happen to me.

Holy shit that sounds like a stultifying class. I took a class in the philosophy of film, but at least we read interesting things. And Plato.

I think a lot of animosity towards old people is really just jealousy. We young people are jealous that you'll get to die soon and we won't. :(

He was in a couple of episodes last season. Played by Adam Arkin.

Winona doesn't live in Harlan County, like Ava and Ellen May. She lives in Lexington, which has one of the highest rates of college graduates in America.