I'm curious as to just how widespread that "system" was; how many fencing lessons did Moe Howard take? The coursework mentioned seems both excessive and also not outside the realm of possibility for a decent fine-arts program at college.

Are you thinking about Anthony Lane's review for the New Yorker? Horribly snotty and dismissive of any significant differences between the graphic novel and the movie.

Turns out his great revelation is called "film studies" and has existed in the United States for more than 40 years.

Dice's jackets didn't suit him particularly well IMO; whenever I'd see him in one (particularly the gaudier ones, which is really most of them), I'd be reminded of the (then still-funny) Dennis Miller line that Dice was Fonzie with Tourette's.

Almost right, but it needs the two-year limit: you put pebbles in for the first two years after you start having sex, whether you wait until marriage or start fucking at the beginning of dating. Sadly, a lot of people in long-term relationships decide to get married well after the fires of passion have died down to…

She's really just posting an update to Facebook; here comes your turn at being the toast of the internet.

The more bread you got, the less shit you gotta eat. Well, proportionally, anyway.

@avclub-3c23902822283144c09d87f123545c87:disqus : Well, obviously those two extremes are the only alternatives. Limiting clothing shopping sprees to maybe 10% of that and throwing a bit of the surplus funds at soup kitchens would only mark him as a dilettante at both spendthriftiness and philanthropy, and who wants…

@avclub-976e5a7c9f5586745269c99891652285:disqus : Terry Pratchett made the same point in one of his Discworld books, in which Sam Vimes—an alcoholic cop who married very, very well—finds out that rich people might actually spend less on clothes in the long run. It's how old money gets to be old money: by holding on to…

Judge Matt Murdock. He can hear when you're guilty.

I'm actually a bit staggered by this, because I lived in Memphis during the latter part of Joe Brown's real legal career. He participated in the farce of James Earl Ray's appeal of his life sentence for assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the basis that it was all a big government conspiracy and Ray was just…

Because it works completely the opposite of the way the real legal system works. People expect there to be big damn dramatic court scenes, the way they are played in the movies and David E. Kelley TV shows, and when they have to actually go to court, they get all nervous about saying and doing the right thing, wait…

So… you're basically seven of Tyler Durden's disciples, plus Calvin Klein's latest boyfriend?

Bateman? All-American? He's more obsessed with being the American ubermensch, making exactly the right choices in everything. The average American-slash-serial killer would be the real-life BTK killer, who got away with several murders and was eventually caught only because he emailed the cops a letter in Word…

tl;dr of everyone's freshman year: "Mistakes were made."

Totally appropriate expression, given that Bissinger is a complete shitbird.

I can't believe that no one in the AV Club commentariat has seen fit to bid on this priceless relic, for whatever purpose they may see fit to use it for. (Maybe they're afraid that it's been washed?)

I can't believe that no one in the AV Club commentariat has seen fit to bid on this priceless relic, for whatever purpose they may see fit to use it for. (Maybe they're afraid that it's been washed?)

Respect for "Strawberry Letter 23", although the Brothers Johnson version is better.

Hmmm… looks like I may be the only Patrick McEown fan here. Not surprising, since he hasn't done that much work (at least in comics). His general style is cute without being cloying, and I've very much enjoyed what little I've seen of it. I'm getting this. (It pleases me that he had an actual hair shirt made in…