I caught up on the last five or so episodes of Grimm. Maybe it's just because I watched a bunch of it at one time, but I think the show's actually getting a bit better, and trying to take a critical look at the ethical implications of Nick's dual role as cop/Grimm. Plus, the midseason cliffhanger was the most…

Oh, ha, yeah. Sorry to constantly be mentioning Faulkner. I probably mention that I think LIA is the better place to start with his works way too often to other members of the commentariat.

As I Lay Dying is one of my favorite books of all time. But yeah, I think it's a mistake to have high schoolers try and read that one. Light in August is considerably more accessible, and is largely responsible for rescuing my opinion of Faulkner's more stream-of-consciousnessy stuff.

That's an awesome story, Judkins. I don't know when you'll get to see True Detective, but it's incredible so far, and possibly already my favorite thing currently on TV.

The first movie I ever saw with McConaughey was Sahara. Until last year, I thought of him as "that useless romcom guy who also sucked in Sahara. But I was clearly wrong, and his performance on True Detective thus far is one of the most mesmerizing things I've ever seen (and I've seen like five movies, so you know…

Yeah, I was under the impression it was slated for a 2014 English translation release. I still need to read most of Murakami's better stuff though, so I've got plenty of his stuff to keep me busy while I wait. Was Murakami less creepy than usual about teenage girls this time?

That sounds fascinatingly batshit insane.

I think I had settled on reading Snow by Pamuk. But I think I'll add My Name is Red to the list, and try to read it in the near future to try and get a jump on that list (I think the only author I've read whom I hadn't read already since deciding to do this is Bertrand Russell, and that was for a class). Thanks for…

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki hasn't been translated yet, right?

I also want to read something by every Nobel Laureate in Literature. Pamuk seems like an interesting author, glad to hear he's awesome.

I'm just glad the Eye of Sauron was accompanied by Stravinsky. Also, was I the above-mentioned quasi-acquaintance?

Weird that the characters don't click in Y given the way that the characters in Vaughan's Saga feel fully realized and are easy to invest in right from the very beginning.

Not working for me either. Which sucks. I use bold for titles of things when I'm starting a thread. It makes it so much easier to read through these comments to find things you know enough about to respond to when people put things in bold, but now I guess NuDisqus has screwed that one up too.

I didn't do much pop culture this weekend. I watched The Godfather though. That was amazing. I can see how it's considered one of the greatest films of all time.

The hot sauce thing was hilarious, but wasn't it based off of the idea that Melissa Fumero was from a family of all older brothers and hence fearless, or something? Like an idea that was totally scrapped after the pilot and never got revisited, just like Scully and Hitchcock's female counterpart who was literally…

In American football, the guy who throws the ball is the quarterback. If you've heard of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, etc, they're quarterbacks. It's probably the most important position in the sport. When the defense tackles the quarterback (which in American football means dragging the player to the ground as…

It's hands-down the funniest joke I've heard all year.

Yeah, that was Clayton Kershaw, a pitcher for the Dodgers, on New Girl. A very, very, very good pitcher for the Dodgers. Hence making the fact that Jess thought he was just some random guy a joke that makes sense. But that's baseball. And Joe Theismann was a quarterback had the shit broken out of his leg (like a…

Also, him making a "caw" to indicate to Terry that he'd finished fucking with Diaz's computer was almost as great as "I think I'm getting a text message…bloop," from a couple of weeks ago.

Any appearance of Adam Sandler on a show of B-99's caliber should be solely to mock him, which is pretty much what happens here, so I was good with it.