Do you mean "cosmic horror" in the existential angst aspect of True Detective that got watered down by Rust looking at the stars?

This sounds interesting, but the write up makes it sound like the computer may as well have been human and that's what disappointed me most about Her. It doesn't seem unreasonable or shocking to me for someone to fall in love with a disembodied intelligence programmed to have a personality that mimics a human's.

I'm really hoping at this point that Under the Skin gets number 1. I'm guessing it's going to be Grand Budapest Hotel, Her, or Boyhood, because the AVClub is staffed by twee, sweater vest wearing poindexters.

I always liked the rat on the balcony. It's so overtly obvious that I never thought it was meant to be thought provoking…I just saw it as a fun little punctuation mark on a fun movie.

Have you played it?

Yeah, a friend of mine recently challenged me to list my top 10 movies of the past 5 years and Black Swan was near the top. Exit through the Gift Shop was definitely number 1 and I'm sure Mother was on there and near the top too.

Your definition backs up my point. Who sang "The Sign" is a pretty fucking unimportant detail. I can't even think of anything less important off the top of my head. There's absolutely no reason a 14 year old would or should know that and there's nothing wrong with anyone who doesn't, no matter their age.

Put a rubber band around them and you've got a poor man's bento box that's still more functional than the $30 lunchbox listed here.

I disagree with your definition of trivia. I don't think a pop culture factoid is no longer considered "trivia" because too many people know it. In fact, I think to insist otherwise is pretty inane. An easy trivia question is still a trivia question.

Well, I did list The Jam. That should be close enough.

I'm not a doctor or anything, but that sounds exactly like trivia to me.

I can see what you're saying - there's nothing mindblowing about his statements - but I'd have to read some of his actual stuff before I knew whether or not I agreed with you. Right now, all the smugness contained in that excerpt seems to be coming from the journalist and not Rich himself.

I kind of feel like Oswalt is constantly making grand statements already though, so I'm not sure the article did much to influence that perspective.

Once, when I was ~19 or 20 (early 2000s), I shocked the hell out of an old man by recognizing his reference to The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.

I don't really think these things are intended to ridicule the young. I think it's more intended to ridicule the old.

I don't know if you're aware of this, but One Night in Bangkok is from another weird musical called Chess, that I have a big soft spot for, mostly because it's so bizarre. So somewhere out there, there's an entire album in the vein of One Night in Bangkok being sung by Murray Head.

Why? Is it that the plating is bad (it looks good to me) or is it that bad food doesn't deserve to look good?

Yeah, I have a couple of bentgos that I got on sale for $10 and the rest are just $7 cheap things I got at the grocery store that aren't as nice looking but just as functional.

I don't know, man. None of that bothered me, except maybe the exclamation marks.

You can get plastic versions of these things anywhere and you can use them in the microwave. And since they're not adverse to using plastic gaskets, they're probably also more leak proof.