This anecdote made me crack up hard. Never has a mind destroyed caused so much laughter. Except maybe Ray Liotta in Hannibal.

It sounds like a really lousy piece of dialogue, but it also sounds like a great title for a song by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, sitting in some archive out there somewhere.

In 2003, that meant something. But, Jude: you're now obscure.

For me, it's less the camerawork, than the eerie feeling that all the dialogue in a soap opera has a functional quality - there's never a simple wandering conversation without purpose. It's always, "I have to tell you something-", "You know the younger sister I said died as a child-", "Doctor Rogers isn't actually a…

Hmmm…but do you remember getting pregnant and killing Brock Landers? What about Brick Landers? And their bookish sister, Jock Landers, the third base of your get-pregnant-then-kill triple play?

Is this the extended trailer for a Cloverfield sequel?

Second Sex Simone De Beauvoir
Pocketful of Dreams Gary Giddins
Worm Mark Bowden
Venice: Pure City Peter Ackroyd

I've enjoyed non-historical fiction of Mantel - Beyond Black and An Experiment in Love - but I wouldn't call her an easy or quick read. If you rush through one of her books, you'll miss a lot.

Is Sliced Bread still considered overrated? I hear he's now considered a brilliant american expressionist master since that retrospective at the Venice Film Festival.

I got a great deal out of that, but most especially, from now on I'm going to start calling myself "General Wolf Chaos". Maybe I'll even start a gang, so that can be my "gang name".

I got a great deal out of that, but most especially, from now on I'm going to start calling myself "General Wolf Chaos". Maybe I'll even start a gang, so that can be my "gang name".

Well. Robespierre, I appreciate your revolutionary zeal and wish you well. Though you haven't said it, I'll ask anyway: "'Rue the day?' Who talks like that?"

Well. Robespierre, I appreciate your revolutionary zeal and wish you well. Though you haven't said it, I'll ask anyway: "'Rue the day?' Who talks like that?"

I reply to my own post because of the limit on nesting replies.

I reply to my own post because of the limit on nesting replies.

Except Shakespeare looks at the vengeful characters with far greater ambivalence than Tarantino does. Does anyone doubt that the Basterds and Shoshana are on the side of the good, the bride as well, and that the Nazis and Bill deserve to die?

Except Shakespeare looks at the vengeful characters with far greater ambivalence than Tarantino does. Does anyone doubt that the Basterds and Shoshana are on the side of the good, the bride as well, and that the Nazis and Bill deserve to die?

If you're looking for succinct, well-cut movies, I think you'll really enjoy these old classics: Andy Warhol's Empire and Andy Warhol's Eat.

If you're looking for succinct, well-cut movies, I think you'll really enjoy these old classics: Andy Warhol's Empire and Andy Warhol's Eat.

"Just let it go, kid. Angelina Jolie will be able to buy all sorts of stuff your old mom can't. Like a new forehead for me."