What've you heard about Brockway and Ogdenville?

C'mon, Heche! They're guaranteed to amuse and inspire, if that delightful Yakov Smirnoff is any indication.

I think Netflix actually stands to improve their saturation, if they can manage to beat into submission any obstacles on the road to offering their complete library via "Watch It Now" streaming.

Also, I forgot another thing that's not getting appropriate attention
Dungeons & Dragons, for serious. Even if it all boils down to pretending to be citizens of Ancient-Europe-That-Wasn't, that shit is hells of awesome.

With the exception of a few truly awesome local rental shops (Portland's own Movie Madness and the like), the selection at the average brick-and-mortar was pretty terrible, and only moreso once VHS & DVD had to compete for the same floorspace.

I've got a few heroes
Hunter S. Thompson, and his ilk: the Hemingways, Carvers, Bukowskis, etc. But most of all, and completely serious: Theodore Fucking Roosevelt. I'm amazed they even let a namby-pamby pinko commie liberal hipster douchebag like me remain in the same country that birthed the man. Practically…

Especially GTA:IV. What a knockout ending on that storyline, really. At least the (spoilers!) revenge ending, with Roman alive:

Platitudes and axioms are all well and good, Tarkovsky, but feel free to at least toss in some anecdotal evidence here and there. Granted, nobody's expecting doctoral dissertations down here in the Commentwood, but we're not all running for President either. The non-stop sloganeering is obtuse and tiring.

The troubling thing about tribbles
Is that tribbles are troubling pests
Their bodies are made out of furballs
Your fancy space grain they'll infest
They're fluffy, puffy, furry, purry
Fun-fun-fun-fun-fun
But the most troubling thing about tribbles is
There's a hell of a lot more than one

I smoke Byakhee Tobaccy, and nothing but.

"Fap" is an onomatopoeia for masturbation, primarily male. I believe it is originally of British extract, but has gained popularity here on your Earth's primitive "Interwebs".

C'mon, J.S. — name the kid like your heart tells you: Leroy.

If reading that absurdly long, meandering post wasn't enough: should you find these ideas intriguing, and wish to subscribe to my newsletter, do yourself one better and read "Hidden Camera" by Zoran Zivkovic. A very relevant read, in my opinion, as regards the issues of free will, destiny, and the characters within an…

I also agree with the "good call" assessment of Esau as a name for Jacob's nemesis, since that's the first thing I thought of as soon as we found out that Jacob *has* a nemesis. ;) For those of you not up on your Bible stories, this might FINALLY bring back all those threads about the "bad twin" back into play:

The Hulu epsiode description:
"A mysterious case has trio exploring the unexplained."

Don't be ragging on the Big Beef & Cheddar. I hear it's very popular over in Telluride.

More and more grist for the "Peter is Walter's clone" mill.

At the very least, she should have poked around to get the progress for the achievement, even if she *was* full on ammo.

Whatever, Liam. Go back to being all sad about your dead wife. You shoulda remembered what happens to Jedi what try to have families.

I dunno, seeing a movie with it's most-likely-to-be-appreciative audience I usually how I like to see movies in the theater, if I can.