Nah, Jersey Shore is great. That reunion episode. where they're all clearly still oblivious of how to handle themselves round the media, was a classic. Although that presenter was pretty obviously disgusted at having to be around those people, though. Fuck her and her stupid made-up name.

I enjoyed the Twilight rifftrax too.

I watched the first disc of Deadwood season 1 and didn't get into it either. Not everything is for everyone, I suppose, and I certainly wouldn't be as presumptuous as to question what other people got out of it.

Two Fucks, go read the Wikipedia summary of the 4th book. It's exactly and painfully real.

This is Cancer, and this is AIDS. And this is a fire, too.

I, you should definitely read, at least. "Then We Came To The End". It's really very good.

Tom Mota
This seems to be a criticism from the other side of things to several you guys had earlier on. First up, it's too mundane - not enough outside the office happens, and so on. Then, a mention of something like that is enough to bring you out of the story, annoy you slightly, or whatever.

If you're going to set a book in that time period, to not mention it would be bizarre. It didn't strike me as an attempt to grab sympathy, or anything like that.

Jon Heder's alright! Which is the closest I feel I can come to complimenting this film.

Kevin Smith fucked himself over by making Zack and Miri a massive pile of shit.

Oh The Possibilities, factor in all the advertising that's on top of that $1.35 mill and it almost certainly made a big ol' loss. And there's probably a warehouse somewhere with several hundred boxes of unsold copies of that film.

I processed a bit of accounting nonsense today for a Mr. Bonewell. True story.

The Duplass Brothers are pretty good. I'm sorry it's already too mainstream for you to like though. How awful it must be to live like that.

Damn those boring books which have an opinion!

Trurl, you just answered your own question. Mac products aren't for you. Why bother getting worked up about them?

I eat Green Berets like you for breakfast.

Again, McRib, although you're probably not going to listen, go look at any bookshop's history section. I absolutely guarantee that the majority of the books will support the "great men" thesis, will be largely conservative. That's why books like Zinn's are so damn important.

Lone Audience, there's levels of being a shit, and ruining the career of scores of your apparent friends is way high up on the list of shitty things to do. Fuck him and fuck his achievements.

I think trying to sympathise / empathise / identify with one of the characters has been deliberately made difficult by Ferris, but Joe Pope is as good an answer as any. Although I was happy with the result of Benny's story by the end, I never particularly identified with him as a character.

That's exactly what I thought (although expressed much better than I would have done). I got the feeling that it could have been any week, or month, and the way it kept moving slightly forwards, then back to the beginning again, then a bit forwards, was one of the cleverer things about the way it was laid out.