I don't get it. Are you arguing that the rating is too low or too high?

I'm not only amazed that there is a movie as bad a "Jonah Hex", but that M. Night Shyamalan has made a movie worse than "The Happening".

TVC
I'm betting that means Traverse City. And I'm further betting that means these two masters of the super-flow are also Juggalos.

Isn't it obvious?
Metal makes you strong, people. METAL MAKES YOU STRONG.

Written in '77, set in '94. The movie just says "seven years from now", I think.

Please note that in the upcoming Pixar film based on the adventures of the A.V. Club, the Francophilic pig character "Priquli Indignance" is patterned after me.

There goes…
…the only reason for anyone to watch Starz!.

I am half-white and half-Arab. Of course, Arabs used to be "white" until fairly recently, when we were demoted for insubordination. It was kind of like when the Irish got promoted for getting with the program and helping actual white people hate blacks, only in reverse.

Hmm, interesting. I don't know — maybe he's saying the drugs have thrown their priorities out of whack, and they treat animals with more caring and respect than they do people. Or maybe that the way they treat animals (who can never be of any utility for their addiction) is a misguided outlet for their humanism?

That is indeed Dave "Gruber" Allen from "Freaks And Geeks" as the hippie cameraman.

Louie
After only two episodes, this has proven to be outstanding. It's amazingly coherent, tone-perfect, and so self-assured — not to mention funny as hell. That poker table scene was revelatory: it's very rare for a show to make a serious point while never losing the trashy humor of the scene. (It's also…

This is something I mentioned briefly in the first discussion: one of the worst things about addiction is that it reduces your empathy for other people to the point that you can't perceive through any filter other than their utility in getting you your next fix. It's why you'll steal your mother's stereo, or kowtow…

I'd have to disagree about both Southern and Pynchon. Some of Southern's stuff — especially his short work — seems pretty dated, but "Dr. Strangelove" is pretty timeless, and two of his best novels, "Flash and Filigree" and "The Magic Christian", have aged only in the particulars of the story and not at all…

Farmer John — you're right that he relapsed a number of times, and continued using drugs right up until his death. But at the time he wrote "Junky" and "Naked Lunch", he was completely clean. And though he remained a user, he was never as seriously addicted as he was during those periods before he wrote his first…

Yeah, I wanted to mention that opener where David keeps doing the robot walk even when he's trying to chase a guy who's running away. COMMITMENT, you see.

Even worse, when instructed to "gay him up", he sticks his finger all the way into his mouth.

As I've said before, if you don't think something is funny, no one can talk you into it. Humor is enormously subjective. And, as I posted a while back, if you've seen season 2 and you don't think it's good, I can't imagine more of the same would convince you.

Yeah, it's strange — that's why I thought the contrast between his afterword and Burroughs' in "Naked Lunch" was so striking.

I think it's a terribly shallow misreading of the ending to think that the next step is that the government shuts down the SD racket and the problem is totally solved. PKD certainly did not believe that the drug war was winnable in any conventional way.

You know what I was reminded of reading his story about Arctor banging his head on the cabinet and then instantly realizing he hated his whole life? The bit in "The Maltese Falcon" about Mr. Flitcraft, who had a beam fall from a construction site and almost kill him. He reacted to this random act by abandoning his…