I love how unabashedly absurd grief often looks on the show—not in a comical way, exactly, but all awkward and ugly and goofy at once. Even before you know about Leland's actions, he's still dancing and singing like a crazy person, but in a way that feels at once embarrassing and completely in keeping with the show's…

Have the Sons ever really faced a moral opponent? Every law enforcement officer post-Deputy Hale has been compromised in some way or another. (Always kind of figured that Hale got killed off because no one knew how to deal with an upstanding guy on the show. And even he was sleeping around with that crazy federal…

"How do you like your coffee?"
"Black as midnight on a moonless night."
"That's pret-t-t-ty black."

I dunno—recovering alcoholic _and_ Judas? That sounds like two character traits, and that's one too many for anyone on The Walking Dead.

Hm. You're right—I didn't even think about the bloody smears. What an odd mistake on my part.

Whoever it is has been doing it for years. Salut!

Yeah, I was surprised at how much the romance stuff worked here—it's very simple and straightforward, but that's to the show's credit.

Speaking of Simmons, I'm moving through Carrion Comfort for the first time. I've read a fair amount of his stuff before, and I'm enjoying this so far; it's brutal, but gripping. (I made the mistake of trying the audiobook first, where the long descriptions bogged the narrative down and the rape scenes were hard to get…

Awesome, thanks. I was a little unsure about that.

It's really fantastic. I bought the Criterion DVD sight unseen and never regretted it—just once was enough to make it one of my favorite horror films of all time. Very much looking forward to upgrading.

It's a fairy tale with science, which makes it terrifying.

I think it's a terrible, terrible movie, but I love it, because it is terrible.

Damn. Nice work.

Dare you to watch Dreamcatcher.

Yeah, that was my assumption too.

Or else one of the writer's just needed a name. Since it's not connected to the comic (that I can tell), I'm sure it's just a random thing.

Ahhh, okay. That's more interesting. Thanks.

Poor bastard.

Pointing out Indy's superfluity in Raiders isn't a critique—it's recognizing one of the movie's best, subtlest's jokes.

I loved that story. I started it thinking, "Oh, this is pretty pulpy and silly, no way will it get me," and it totally got me.