The call was good, but it was a pretty complainy show overall and honestly, if I have to hear ANYONE go on and on about great authenticity of Weird Al again it will be too soon.

The call was good, but it was a pretty complainy show overall and honestly, if I have to hear ANYONE go on and on about great authenticity of Weird Al again it will be too soon.

I must say that if you ever need to explain the Slate Culture Gabfest to someone and illustrate why it is both so maddening and compelling, play them the segement from this week where Stephen Metcalf talks about the Bachelor and how it is indicative of the uncertainty of the verisimilitude of relationships in our time…

I must say that if you ever need to explain the Slate Culture Gabfest to someone and illustrate why it is both so maddening and compelling, play them the segement from this week where Stephen Metcalf talks about the Bachelor and how it is indicative of the uncertainty of the verisimilitude of relationships in our time…

The Threepenny Opera, directed by Robert Wilson, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this past fall. It drives me totally mad that the Berliner Ensemble didn't release a cast ablum for that production, becuase trying to listen to other recordings of the show after seeing that one have fallen flat for me ever since.

The Threepenny Opera, directed by Robert Wilson, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this past fall. It drives me totally mad that the Berliner Ensemble didn't release a cast ablum for that production, becuase trying to listen to other recordings of the show after seeing that one have fallen flat for me ever since.

That's really interesting! I wonder why as well, that would have been a good twist to the story.

Likewise. The only time I skip a segment is if it's about publishing or technology, because honestly, if I have to hear those people declare the death of the book or privacy or handwritten letters or god-knows-what anymore I'm going to LOSE IT. Fucking Slate in general and their upper middle class obsolesce paranoia…

Good God, I think that was THE WORST episode of This American Life ever. That first story was just incredibly petty, which, yes, I get it, but it was also particularly uninsightful. And what the HELL with the animal fables?? Again?

The show can be hit or miss by it's nature, and I do agree this season has been a little more miss then usual. Like the advice episode for example, which I thought was a good idea that didn't pan out very well. Probably because Buzz Goldstein didn't talk enough.

One of the biggest changes I've undergone was my opinion of disco. I was raised in a family of unrepentant rockists who believe Led Zepplin to be the pinnacle of music and who took Disco Sucks to be a matter of course. It didn't help that the only disco I heard for years was Wedding Disco, but I took all disco to be…

GIVE ME A COKE. I love Stray Bullets.
Now I remember that I also considered getting a tattoo of a Stay Bullets sticker that said "Innocence of Nihilism". It looked cool on the cover of my sketchbook in high school, but as a tattoo it might have been a BIT much.

When I was a teenager my big plan was to get a replica of Nick Cave's tattoo (seen here: http://www.inkedcelebrity.c…, but where his says "Anita", mine would say "Nick"

Mistakes like the Godzilla thing happen in this podcast all the time and I have no idea why they never seem to get caught before the thing goes online.
 
I think the show is good when the subject is something that one or more of the panelists have some expertise about, even if their arugements (esp Metcalf's) can be…

I am interested to know what feminist texts these writers will consult in order to paint a realistic portrait of a contemporary feminist. I hope they can achieve and surpass the level of nuance brought to the greatest of all feminist tv characters (I am referring of course to Ms Jessie Spano).

I've seen the same thing in a few reviews for this movie- I would guess that it has to do with there being some elusive thing American critics don't "get" about the movie for cultural reasons that is interfereing with their enjoyment of it.

Julie Klausner was on my last nerve this week, with all her ranting and raving because someone wrote a blog post questioning her language in the interview with Maya Rudolph in Bust magazine. It struck me as very mean-spirited and immature on Julie's part. If you want to use racially charged language and you honestly…

WHAT ABOUT MAYOR CUPCAKE?? I guess the AV Club just can't handle the radical notion of a strong woman taking a stand in local politics.

I think they all talk over each other and get down each other's throats about things at times. It just depends on the discussion who is being the most obnoxious. I wish they would rein that in more in general. It definitely does get uncomfortable, but I think they are all to blame at different times.

I feel like this incident comes up so often and I'm not sure why. The level of outrage at Jezebel's criticism of this scene, to this day, is odd to me. I mean, there are some people who believe that rape scenes (or scenes that could be intrepreted as rape) have no place in movies at all, much less in comedies. I think…