so close to understanding (i know german fairly well, and i studied a little swedish on my own a few years ago). do you ever run into americans of swedish decent who are in sweden to learn the language and find out stuff about their ancestors and where they came from? maybe it's cliched, but i want to do that some day.

you are correct, she appeared in the film.

is anyone else of the school of thought that it's ok to kill anyone who's pointing a gun at you?

it always seems to me that a lot of who demonize ayn rand don't seem to have read her either. for example, she never says anywhere that it's bad to help other people.

i'm a big fan of ayn rand. i used to want to be a professor of comparative literature, until i became disillusioned with academia. for what it's worth, i have all kinds of books on my bookshelves, in many languages. i'm currently finishing up "crime and punishment" in the original russian. thinking of trying…

i didn't realize that "Rollin’ And Scratchin" got released as a single. i think it's pure genius, but i didn't realize anyone else had ever given that track a second thought.

my perfect conan movie daydream: basically just a film adaption of "the thing in the crypt" that flows seamlessly into "the tower of the elephant." very little dialog, except what's in the source material, like from the fat dude in the tavern before conan splits his skull, or the when the elephant explains his origin.…

well, he called you "dear child," lexicondevil. so, at least he likes you.

do high school kids still listen to floyd, zeppelin, the smiths, and the violent femmes? i'd like to think that they do, but i kind of doubt it.

applause@about time

lol (avclub should have a like button).

brazilian portuguese is the real portuguese, just like american english is the real english.

i second the call for the return of the old TMFSP avatar.

all the breakups on that site were pretty good. i feel like i should admit that i didn't make it through the gay one. a little exposure to effeminate men goes a long way.

hmm. so i met an italian MPDG in italy a few weeks ago. she's coming to denver to stay with me for two weeks in march. might i be screwed? i mean, i definitely will be literally, but perhaps also figuratively?

i thought manic pixie dream girls were a good thing. i'm kind of slow.

it would be nice…
if you could provide hyperlinks to pictures of actresses you mention. that would save me from the effort of googling "lake bell" to see if statuesque=hot.

i like smallville. deal with it. i always wondered when they're going to at least mention bruce wayne, though. i'm watching season 9 now, and with a lot of the apocalyptic future stuff, i think you have to wonder what batman would do. unless he's dead or something in this version of the DC universe.

dammit…
…spit out my quinoa salad all over my monitor when the one ewok ripped off the other one's arm.

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