The actress who played Arias was Ben's daughter (Alex?) from Lost, right?  So not totally no-name, but yeah, sorry you had to watch that, it sounds horrible.

Wait, so how long is the audiobook?  More or less than a day and a half?

Yeah, Alive 2007 is fantastic.

"Wonder how the usually ADD audience stuck around long enough to make it a hit." Well, most of the episodes in Season One have a scene where a male character spouts exposition at a naked woman while fucking her (or, most egregiously, while two naked prostitutes pretend to fuck each other), so, maybe that's how?

Haven't seen Monster's U, but I feel like Toy Story 3 was the perfect nod to all the people born between ~1989-1993 who grew up with Pixar, and anything else would seem superfluous and impossible of living up to TS3's high standards.  Still, good to hear that you (and it would seem most people) have enjoyed it.

Which is the one where he spins the Earth backwards at the end of the movie so that everyone goes back in time in the most comically implausible time travel scene of all time?

Glad to hear that your allergy is non-fatal and that you're OK.  And that's awesome that Gaiman sketched a ghost in your book.  And Rhode Island is an amazing state.

On Friday and Saturday I finished up reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.  Pretty good, but a little bit formulaic, in a way that's a bit more forgivable in a more fairy tale-ish book like Stardust.  Still, it was good, and I've pretty much worked my way through all of Gaiman's significant works except for Coraline and T…

I've always assumed that it's the latter.

Oh God, I'd forgotten that Jane Velez-Mitchell even existed.  I like the way that it seems like she somehow manages to egotistically relate every single story she reports to the fact that she's a recovering alcoholic.

There's a couple of pretty good SNL skits mocking her out there.

Ironically, she co-authored a book called "Objection! - How High-Priced Defense Attorneys, Celebrity Defendents and a 24/7 Media Have Hijacked Our Criminal Justice System" (emphasis on last part of title is my own).  So not only is she, as you say, "the highest visibility culprit in a media engine that wantonly wrecks…

She really is the worst.  I might actually dislike Nancy Grace and her exploitative righteous anger at anyone accused of a violent crime more than I dislike all the absurdly conservative talk show host douchebags on Fox News.  If you didn't have greedy tactless yellow "journalists" like her running around making a…

@avclub-86a9ac7667ec45a86614223897b4f765:disqus and @avclub-5dedb42b34e50082065a783265ce28a8:disqus Ah, I see.  I didn't realize it was a white woman, nor that racism wasn't the main reason for the lawsuit.  Well, I was wrong.  Granted sexual harrassment and creating a hostile workplace are also bad things, but yeah,…

Isn't some black guy who worked for her filing a discrimination lawsuit of some sort against her?  I was under the impression that that was the main reason that she was fired (although it would seem a bit unfair to fire her before any sort of verdict has been reached).  Also the whole "let's have a southern…

Ha, it'd be tempting, just it's a lot less meaningful to me than "Ocean Breathes Salty" and "Parting of the Sensory".  Plus it seems like a dickishly morbid thing to have played at one's funeral.  Plus, it's a little on-the-nose, isn't it?

"When My Time Comes" would actually be an appropriate choice.  Although you'd need to invite a bunch of members of the commentariat to the funeral to scream out random AV Club memes as it's played.

"but I don't want to torture my loved ones too badly"

Wait, has anyone ever seen @avclub-487cf32249fbaaa5a79258e26d54fe19:disqus and @avclub-41e23e24ee2670c4128cd7e5e5ee42ab:disqus in the same place at the same time?

"Ocean Breathes Salty" by Modest Mouse.  I guess?  Maybe "Parting of the Sensory" as well.  I'm not really sure what I'd pick;  I only spent about two minutes thinking about it, Modest Mouse just seemed like a good place to start looking for me for emotionally somewhat appropriate songs that scoff at the idea of an…