i wanted to like this just for "twisty-turny". stupid disqus.

he's a harmless enough guy. now, A MICHAEL BAY FILM? there's a fucking warning for ya.

b-minus is essentially a positive grade.

ooh, feel the burn!

that's pretty damned bizarre. while i have had a host of problems here, that particular one has never come up.

i am one of those people (and there are quite a few of us) who always found gaffney's contributions to sebadoh LPs to be worthless, so this was an odd review for me. finding out that EG wasn't involved kinda cheered me up, but the otherwise mixed nature of the review killed that (mild) buzz pretty quickly. i dunno.…

yes, we've been dating for several weeks now. virginia gibberish is her full name. do you have some prior claim on her affections?

i generally refer to the characters in holofcener's movies as "over-entitled douchebags", yet i really love her work and own dvds of all her films.

in all honesty, it's not exactly bad. it's just an incredibly lightweight (and maybe a little bit affected) approach to a genuinely interesting idea: what happens when the person you think you're deeply in love with doesn't feel the same way about you?

i consider myself a pretty big fan and will more than likely get off my old ass and see this in a theater this weekend. that's about as close as i get to "fuck yeah!"

i love all of holofcener's films, but i pretty much know going in that most of the things which concern or trouble her characters have little pull for me. that's part of the appeal of going to certain movies and reading certain books: they shed some light on how other classes think and behave.

ooh, let's have a "(500) days of summer sucks" pile-on! i'll start:

consider the lobster by david foster wallace. some of the essays (the title piece and "up simba") are pretty enjoyable. some of the more insanely footnote-heavy pieces are just plain annoying. it's impossible for me to ignore the damned things and they're generally about evenly split between stuff that's genuinely…

the majority of people here who keep insisting that they're leaving if there's a disqus-change aren't going ANYWHERE. even HDB will simply open another account and figure out a way to make sure that said account has greater degrees of separation from his real life. motherfuckers LOVE this site and the community…

it's important to remember that the "notoriously reclusive" j.d. salinger was in the habit of penning mash notes to (semi) famous women (tv panelist elaine joyce, dynasty's catherine oxenberg) and (naturally) signing them with his own name. presumably with the knowledge that a "you shore are purty on that there…

after her first piece was published, salinger got in touch with her and we all know what that was for. so i have little sympathy for the old schmuck. not that i'm saying what she did was especially commendable. just that JDS seemed like kind of a creepy douchebag and it's hard to have all that much sympathy for the…

it's a pleasant enough time-waster.

damn shame. one of the all-time great screen beauties in her day.

bingo. that is a terrific fuckin' movie. not quite as awesome as the rapture, but still something.

i'm not. the whole point of the post is that it was kind of a dickish thing to say, yet it still got a laugh. mostly owing to how incredibly fucked/uneasy many new yorkers felt in the aftermath of 9/11.