I got dumped once while Different Class was playing; I couldn't play that album again for a year and a half.

I got dumped once while Different Class was playing; I couldn't play that album again for a year and a half.

Tina Fey does not have "an endless supply of good will built up." Ye gods, have you not watched the last four years of 30 Rock?

Tina Fey does not have "an endless supply of good will built up." Ye gods, have you not watched the last four years of 30 Rock?

The "new atheists" have been on a crusade for the last decade to basically turn "people who don't believe in/care about religious stuff" into a kind of feverishly self-obsessed identity politics for white nerds. What does it say that every time I wander into the novelty section of a bookstore, I see things like "The…

The "new atheists" have been on a crusade for the last decade to basically turn "people who don't believe in/care about religious stuff" into a kind of feverishly self-obsessed identity politics for white nerds. What does it say that every time I wander into the novelty section of a bookstore, I see things like "The…

As far as I can tell, for the Batman books, the biggest change has been the hilariously stupid five-year time span, which now makes the timing of Batman's career make no sense at all. So he's had four sidekicks in a five year career? He's only been Batman for five years, but Damien is ten years old? Dick became Robin…

As far as I can tell, for the Batman books, the biggest change has been the hilariously stupid five-year time span, which now makes the timing of Batman's career make no sense at all. So he's had four sidekicks in a five year career? He's only been Batman for five years, but Damien is ten years old? Dick became Robin…

Completely disagree. Anderson's movies aren't ironic or detached at all - they're stylized, but they're very emotionally present (I mean, shit, there's nothing detached at all about the ending of Life Aquatic, for instance - I think that's half the reason hipsters hate that one so much). To confuse stylization with…

Completely disagree. Anderson's movies aren't ironic or detached at all - they're stylized, but they're very emotionally present (I mean, shit, there's nothing detached at all about the ending of Life Aquatic, for instance - I think that's half the reason hipsters hate that one so much). To confuse stylization with…

I still love Millennium, largely for season 2. There's so much crazy genius in that run of episodes. If the series started off on that note - dark, weird, doomsaying mysticism, loaded up with angels and demons and secret societies and God knows what else - I think it would have been a lot stronger for it - but it was…

I still love Millennium, largely for season 2. There's so much crazy genius in that run of episodes. If the series started off on that note - dark, weird, doomsaying mysticism, loaded up with angels and demons and secret societies and God knows what else - I think it would have been a lot stronger for it - but it was…

This was the series of episodes that got me to quit watching the show (the first time around, at least - I came back around to finish it up during season 9 out of a mixture of pained duty and morbid curiosity). The Mulder Jesus scenes were so over the top, yet played so straight, I couldn't really take it.

This was the series of episodes that got me to quit watching the show (the first time around, at least - I came back around to finish it up during season 9 out of a mixture of pained duty and morbid curiosity). The Mulder Jesus scenes were so over the top, yet played so straight, I couldn't really take it.

Homage to Catalonia is a million times better than 1984.

Homage to Catalonia is a million times better than 1984.

"Girl With Curious Hair" contains some pretty awful dreck - the Letterman one in particular is pretty horrible, which is really just Wallace wanting to write an essay about Letterman and cramming it into fiction instead by having characters start spouting off in awkward, quasi-Sorkinesque lecture-exchanges that feel…

"Girl With Curious Hair" contains some pretty awful dreck - the Letterman one in particular is pretty horrible, which is really just Wallace wanting to write an essay about Letterman and cramming it into fiction instead by having characters start spouting off in awkward, quasi-Sorkinesque lecture-exchanges that feel…

"Where is it being said we have a bad reputation?"

"Where is it being said we have a bad reputation?"