I freely admit that I enjoy reading fluffy books - and when I was a teenage girl I read Anne Rice. I read the Twilight series several months ago because I wanted to see if they were really THAT terrible…and they totally are. The books are bad. Worse then I had imagined. Why did I read them all? I don't really have an…

Yeah, you said it much more eloquently then I did. I also think killing random animals is different from killing your pet - we (or most people) don't respond this way to hunting scenes - like the cat from Book of Eli - or self defense scenes - like the zombie dogs from Resident Evil.

It's really weird to hear "Superfreak" classified as Motown. I mean, even if it's technically true, that's fucked up.

I would listen to a classic rap station. I'd also listen to a classic country station. We had one for a while - it was HANK radio. Now it's BOB and it plays "music from the 80s, 90s, and today." 

Uh…isn't this the story of Monkey Roberts?

Some people also relate better to pets. Dogs are loyal and offer unconditional love. It's pretty shitty to see or even hear about someone who has killed their own pet. Seeing pets killed on screen is pretty difficult for me because it's usually used to emotionally manipulate the audience…and frankly, isn't that what…

I think it's time for group hug.

Me too!

You forgot Hawaiians.

My mom went to school with Shirley Temple's son. Apparently he was an okay guy.

If there's a bad caulk joke I haven't heard it.

I'm already over it.

My farmer's market accepts food stamps…

I read this as a "quail of bullets." It's California's state artillery!

This is why we're here, man!

@avclub-3fe1fdfda58715ff89476bc53fe3d5f8:disqus , you have to practice to make it to third chair!

I can play one of those one-man-band machines like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins!

I agree - his tactics are cheap and alienate those who agree and disagree with him.

Hitler's existence doesn't cancel out the shittiness of other people or things. If I find a tick on me, I don't say to myself, "Well, this bloodsucking fucker isn't as bad as Hitler so this doesn't bother me at all!"

On the contrary, I think this means that there are murderers and rapists everywhere! The whole world can't be wrong about something, Dired.