a mysterious bloodbath
"…a mysterious bloodbath whose victims include dirty cop French Stewart and vacationing mom Cheri Oteri."

Best "Random Roles" Ever
Some of these lately have been a tad lame, but this one is pure gold: great stories.
I only wish we could hear listen to a recording of this interview.

Akiko. Good.
My mom phoned in the middle of the episode and I had to watch it with the mute on.
I'm glad she got a name. I hope she comes back.
They didn't kill her or anything, did they?

"Did anyone else get a boner when Toshi's sister slapped me?"
Toshi's sister rules. I hope she gets a name.

"Cats"
Now they'll have room for my promising new series: "Cats".
It follows the political machinations of a nation much like our own, but in a world where everything is run by Cats.
I know there's no plausible reason why a political and social system similar to ours would evolve in a parallel fashion with cats running…

Yeah. I was thinking about Uwe Boll too.

"better offensive than dull"
That's a rather dangerous critical premise.
Suppose in addition to being offensive a movie was also simplistic, or even lugubrious on occasion? Would this too be excused just because it was rarely boring?

Just keep saying "I swear to god, I thought he was going to kill me."

Shepard Fairey is a good artist but a terrible criminal
Not getting caught is a key element.

Though the nice thing about eating in a Pizza Hut or some other big chain is you don't have to listen to college students congratulating themselves for what kind of pizza they're stuffing into their faces. At Pizza Hut they just hide their faces and eat in silent shame like the rest of us.

"I am a verevolf!"
That line is pretty much the only thing I remember from that movie. I guess I'd better see it again.

Congrats on two firsties in two days: Clueless Neophyte.
You should definitely buy a lottery ticket. Or better yet, get a job, since you clearly have too much time on your hands.

"I got a peaceful easy feeling
And I know you won't let me down
Because I'm already lying
On the ground…
With my mouth open."

My mistake: I meant to say "merely considering his ideas DOES NOT make one a fascist"

Stomper:
Agreed that Heinlein is an individualist libertarian of the first order, even a "rational anarchist" by his own terms, and merely considering his ideas makes one a fascist (though on the whole he seemed to think rugged individualism was the sort of thing that should be reserved for the folks that could handle…

I was going to go to "Heinlein", but I couldn't come up with a "G".
Also, anyone who moves on to Heinlein after Dick and Ellison is either insane of a fascist. I could see him being in there before them, but that would wreck my whole cutesy alphabet stunt.

Look, it's not complicated. In fact, it's alphabetical.
You start with these authors in this order:

It's good to see Criterion diluting the already questionable value of the phrase "new release".
However, the new version apparently does not include a copy of Carver's book. So at least you get some subtracted value at a lower price.

There's a lot to like in the movie (I could watch Wilford Brimley and Richard Farnsworth all day), but its ending completely betrays the book.
That Malamud spoke highly of the adaptation only demonstrates that he was a gracious man who likely had an appreciation for the merits of a well-cashed cheque (the mark of a…

S. Jerusalem and Sir Clepington Tar-Baby, your comments about the Borat movie were interesting the first time I read them.
But now that I've decided to read them over and over again for some reason, I've decided you're wasting my time.