I genuinely appreciate this assumption! I'm as un-fat today as I've been in the last 20 years, but still closer to a Fat Neil than, say, Jeff Winger.

"Or is it just patting me on the back for recognizing the stealthily employed references and skewered conventions?"

Well if there's one thing D'angelo knows it's self-congratulation.

CK One, right? Right? But it's not!

Yeah but he's "got the goods"

I'm pretty sure Gawker is now "Gawker for Douchebags" now that Daulerio's running it.

Right on, Captain. I think the problem is that West is really good at building suspense, but not so good at paying it off. The structure of HOTD kind of masked the problem by having the letdown payoff confined to the end, but Innkeepers had three or four separate sequences that built up to nothing.

Your mom and my mom should be pals, this describes her exactly. Well, and also me. I hated that movie.

Oh indeed! It was the nice things Scott and Noel said about him here that first prompted me to check out his writing, and now it comes full circle.

"I don't care how many wolves Liam Neeson punches in the throat."

If nothing else, she's inspired some great work from Carles.

You should have been playing Paperboy for the ultimate in arcade ouroboros.

I feel like TMNT, X-Men, and the like could all be beaten for about $5. If you were feeling thrify, Golden Axe was about half that.

So true. Does that make Rampage the male equivalent of Labyrinth in terms of the role it played in the sexual awakening of late-80s preteens?

The problem with it is that those Amazon sales were a loss-leader; Amazon basically ended up eating the difference between the (much higher than $0.99) album cost and the cheapo list price as a way to promote their MP3 and Cloud services. Banking on a digital download store to be willing to lose $3 million on 450K…

Agreed with this, and I'd say it applies equally to Anthony Lane now — I enjoy his writing, but he doesn't strike me as being all that well-versed in the history and theory side of things. Which is mostly fine. Great writers are allowed to be wrong about some things (i.e. DFW badmouthing T2). The problem, I guess, is…

Ugh, FLICKER…one of the worst books I've ever finished. The sub-Dan Brown Illuminati stuff was bad enough, but what really sticks out in my memory is how Roszak's obvious stand-in of a protagonist was irresistible to every woman in the novel despite being demonstrably a dullard at every turn.

The remix with the Staples Sisters sample is even better

I loves me some PT Anderson, Lebowski, and Children of Men, but I cannot stand Julianne Moore.

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