SPOILERS, like the rest of the thread.

I'm pretty sure a NKOTBSBer sent his rabid fans here for an entertaining afternoon once. Don't remember which one and I don't feel like looking it up at the moment.

I cannot believe that I fucked up shitgaze, @avclub-236c7aaf1a0faeb6f62c8e929aff5f94:disqus . Not only does it show what a terrible Columbus-ite (-ian? Columbuser?) I am, it's also an even funnier term than shitcore. Also, this goes to show you that no matter how obscure a topic, you can always count on someone on…

As a Columbus native, I feel it is my duty to inform all of you that No Age are L.A.-based commercialized facsimiles of the real shitcore sound created by Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit.

Yo La Tengo used to have a gig during WFMU's pledge drives where they would play any request in exchange for pledges. Their repertoire is kind of ridiculous.

"Attention Steinbrenner front-office morons: you accomplishments mean nothing! You all can sit on it and rotate! This is George Costanza. I fear no reprisals."

Cpl. Person has already done the definitive cover of "Complicated." I went with the Kylie song.

Song: VU, "Sunday Morning"

"Sweet Caroline" is a good one to drunkenly make up lyrics making fun of the song you're singing and all of the idiots singing along with you for. Something about the slow-ish tempo of the vocals and the fact that everyone will sing along on the chorus no matter what vile shit you put in the verses makes it work.

This thing from the NY Times Sunday Magazine a couple weeks back was pretty excellent.

My parents got me Love Goes to Buildings on Fire for Christmas and I cannot wait to read it.

"Right in the meaty part of the curve!"

Wait, does this show make Ohioans out to be some kind of intolerant homophobes like we're Kansas or something? Because Columbus is one of the most gay-friendly cities in America.

I've read IJ twice now, and loved it more with the second read. But I was mostly talking about the same thing that I thought @avclub-2d0cca95ad6a2061d208d765e79af478:disqus was talking about, DFW's non-fiction pieces, which fall very far from "never taking a stand one way or the other and not advancing the discussion…

^ hasn't read David Foster Wallace.

Can someone please tell me what DVD this is on? I have both seasons but haven't made it through all of the special features yet.

I just looked it up and was amazed to find that Luckies do still exist. And yeah, even shows that we think of as having crazy artistic integrity get product placement ads. Mad Men's budget gets a huge boost from those sweet, sweet Heineken dollars.

It's definitely a mistake, but I think it may have been *Hal's* mistake. The footnote is (a very stoned) Hal, who is admittedly not very good at math, transcribing what Pemulis says. I can imagine a whole paragraph or two getting chopped off and Hal not even noticing.

I'm nervous about both, but the Saul stuff is more worrying. The show's depiction of the CIA has been great, and the possibility of a mole having infiltrated it strikes me as unrealistic and sensationalist 24-style crap.

I'm still waiting for the possibility someone floated in a comments section long ago that the study group will encounter a Bizarro study group consisting entirely of the former cast of Firefly.