Can't we love The National and Daft Punk?

@avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus I guess 'Neolutionism' is a weird, cult-y, trendy alternative to/subset of Transhumanism. A lot of movements have fringe groups that bolt their dubious beliefs onto the basic philosophy.

Could be a number of reasons like them wanting to give their group a made up name (one that hasn't got baggage from other series/films/books), or them worrying some people would mistake transhuman for transsexual and send them complaints over negative representation.

Man, it's like a youtube comments section here.

Some times I think @Horse_ebooks is the only thing that actually makes sense in the world.

Okay, I'm now imagining a mash-up of Sherlock and Justified with Lucy Lui as a gun-toting marshal.

Ugh, I hate the way Party Time Superhero Day is so commercialised these days.

@avclub-de4a08d644135b09bd7e1a592dff156b:disqus What the deuce? How come that didn't come up when we were discussing how much of a terrible person she was? That's awful.

Classic Poe.

This ain't no barn-dance
Or Grand Ole Oprey
We ain't got time for that now.

It's all there in the name really,

It's not as bad as the American Spaced, but bad by any other standard.

Been there once…

"What are the chances of that happening?"

After hearing the name around the internet, as a punchline, and all over Pitchfork's 'best-of' lists, I finally gave 'Holland 1945' a listen. I know it's cliché, but it really did blow me away. It's never sounded quite as good as that first listen, but it's still an amazing track (as is its parent album and the rest…

@avclub-e5743fdb8f6fdeb20b328de71a8ebe43:disqus Wow! I didn't even notice that. Geez, it's weird to be watching a show where the writers appear to have actually thought things through.

I'm watching from Engl…

Crazy Aussie(ish) guy from A Town Called Eureka!

SPOILER: The song is not really about bowling.

Apparently it was difficult to film because whatever he used to "black up" would stain Desdemona's white dresses.