I wish.

Apparently the Insemination Party was in Jeffrey Eugenides' story. So blame him.

MORE SPOILERS (like any of you would actually see this movie):

I'm 200 pages in
… and I'm actually enjoying the story-within-the-story so far. (The frame story, where he really got his Pale Fire on, was shittier.) But I keep reading reviews like this that tell me it's only gonna get worse. I should stop reading reviews.

And Janet Maslin likes it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010…

My dad was such a hardcore movie buff that he didn't see the inherent awkwardness in watching certain arty flicks by his favorite directors with his daughter. Like Last Tango in Paris. Said no to that one, though I was past 18.

According to the review in Time or Newsweek, the monster resembled an "inside-out bear." This image and the accompanying still photo gave me nightmares for weeks. I'd just moved to the boonies and didn't want to venture into the woods for fear the inside-out radioactive mutated bear would come galumphing along. When I…

I had no TV and unlimited books as a kid. The only time I was ever cool in elementary school was when I was the only one with a copy of Judy Blume's Forever, the book where the guy names his dick.

When I think Kristen Bell I think "little-girl voice." Seems utterly wrong. Though I have not seen her on Deadwood.

All I've read is his excoriation of Rick Moody. I've never read Moody, but Peck's criticisms (vivisections, really) of individual passages were ludicrous. It's like he perceived that the passage was a bit overwritten and self-conscious (with which I might agree) and went out of his way to use that as proof that Moody…

She does play a lot of acerbic/sarcastic chicks, especially now she's older, but Keener is great.

Nic Cage is the rare actor I enjoy watching because he does NOT disappear into the role but embroiders his own crazy graffiti all over it. From Vampire's Kiss to Bad Lieutenant, I love the batshit performances.

Some attractive stars dirty up good (Cameron Diaz in Being John Malkovich is the only example that springs to mind), but some just look like attractive stars who are going for an Oscar by impersonating a poor/schlubby/unkempt person. Halle Berry in Monster's Ball springs to mind. I wish her no ill will, but I don't…

I have to write a review of this book by Sunday. About 150 pages in. (So why am I reading other people's reviews? Good question. Curiosity. It's not often the AV Club reviews two Vermont novelists in one week. Or one month. Or one year.)

My audience was more into groans of disbelief and "noooo"'s.

Pornograffiti! That man has a knack.

Well, that would explain why Ellen Page had no personality apart from her fixation on Leo and his issues. Which needed explaining. And her name did suggest she was some kind of "guide through the maze." (Since she actually built it, they shoulda named her Daedalus.)

Yeah, while small, this was Cillian's best American role in a while (ever?). He's got such long eyelashes, it's easy to forget he can act.

Interesting. Everyone I saw it with either hated it or was all "eh, whatever." Me, I'm on the A-minus page. But it could get under my skin and force me to see it again and like it better, which is what happened with The Dark Knight.

I half agree, mainly about the predictable roles of the projections. But architecture plays a huge role in some people's dreams — namely, mine. I have no idea why. But the fixation on forming and dissolving cityscapes in this movie was very true to some of my dream experiences. Thomas de Quincey also describes having…