Michael Finkel, show yourself!

…shouldn't…touch…magick…puzzle…box….

"'Course I haven't seen Bamboozled, but I'd still like to."

Not to pick, but I think it's possible that you just like that movie. It's OK: me too.

This is really cool. Mighty Aphrodite is an underrated Woody Allen effort (actually, it might not be—I just don't know anyone who's seen it), and, for a Spike Lee movie, Summer of Sam is remarkably fair to white people. (I'm just bitter because I was one of the people who didn't miss Bamboozled.)

I saw The Last Days of Disco, which I guess was charming enough. Did you see Barcelona? I heard rumor that that was a College-Republican-as-Hero movie and didn't hunt it down.

DeLillo blurbed The Corrections.

I feel the same skittishness w/r/t kiddies, though I hear that that feeling changes once you get a couple of them. As for me: one more round of The Piano coming up!

It got the Criterion treatment, so you know it's good…

"Okay you cunts…let's see what you can do now!"

I, for one, don't like to think about my childhood during movies.

He'll need that, to play an English professor. [?]

No, fuck YOU. The Squid and the Whale is great.

[Passes irrelevant note, raises significant wineglass.]

That's OK…Jon Franzen hates them all, too.

Also Emma Stone?

Like, 3.5 years, Sir. I'd recommend it, actually.

@Scrawler That sounds more interesting than my college, where the heavy emphasis on porn didn't cross the 4th wall. There were some guys I lived next to me who would play this bizarre game, however, that would have them have two of their room's TVs on at once, with one TV on the Catholic channel, and the other on a…

I read that blowing directly into a vagina may cause an embolism. This was from a "sex advice" book, the reading of which was due to my…well, we don't need to talk about that, do we? Anyway, use caution with that inter-vaginal whistle, is all I'm saying.

My wife was really into Hanna for its girl-power man-killing tendencies.