Yeah @avclub-c1fe85b855c6d045b827f74a1e2c3fd7:disqus even if the questions you raised represented the fragments of a botched conspiracy, the amount of administrative werewithal required to get such an array of agencies to engage in a coordinated action would leave a paper trail three feet deep.

But, to be fair, who among us doesn't secretly fancy himself an expert in metallurgy?

I just saw Steve Guttenberg in a (relatively) new movie.

Those are Shriners - an honored subset of freemasons who have displayed a talent with small vehicles and like to feast on burned children.

I thought it was Denmark.

Many alcoholic masons are no longer freemasons but are now incarceratedmasons.

Shenanigans!!

Is it safe?

So you're ranting about the co-opting of a genre that was co-opted from the genre that existed as a rejection to the genre that was co-opted from the culture of the people who were, it turns out, unsuccessfully co-opting it?

Fuckin' posers. Let's talk about these killer new trucks I just got when my Mom took me to the mall…

What is that, like wearing a musical hairshirt?

Right after his first album came out, Petty is interviewed in the late, great movie "FM" and, I believe, introduced as a "new wave" artist. I laughed out loud.

Nah. Nabin's a Juggalo now.

We are certainly in agreement on that.

You better have Tourette's…

I thought You Don't Love Me Yet was more a parable about relationships among highly creative people for whom love and creation become hopelssly intertwined. And what happens when artisitc truth and personal truth diverge.

My bellybutton has been called The Great American Navel.

Not from me. But I enjoyed You Don't Love Me Yet so I'm clearly a philistine.

I tried to get into Mailer. But then his buddy stabbed me to death. Oh well.

Why the fuck hasn't The AV Club reviewed Dust? It's only the most important sci-fi book to be published in the last ten years. Seriously. Yet it gets a review in Entertainment Weekly before it gets one here???