The A.V. Club

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I honestly think your views have been tainted by a group of fans. Those aren't my favorite songs from the album, but I think they're a long way from "dreck." I imagine, though, that if I knew some hippies who couldn't shut up about how great and deep and "wow, man" the album was, I'd probably find it repugnant, too.…

I never wanted to see Waters's The Wall tour until I was trying to find a clip of "Bring the Boys Back Home" for a foreign friend. I stumbled across a bootleg of it from the concert, and the screen was splashed with images of war, suffering, and starving and Eisenhower's "Every gun that is made" quote. It's pretty…

Bob's yelling is almost always awesome. Though my favorite piece of angry, Mr. Show yelling is, "So don't tell me that I'm fat!"

Did you see the producer who, after Jones's death, tweeted that "girls die of lots of things" and provided a link to a Huffington Post article about a girl who died after a bikini waxing? He probably also thought a train would stop instead of running people over.

One of my earliest memories of the show is Skinner throwing a briefcase and hitting a fleeing attorney on the horizon. I really miss badass skinner.

I don't understand the question.

A+ can be assigned to a classic episode in retrospect that proves itself to be the best of the series. I think that's the rule, anyway. Until the entire work is complete, it's not possible to know which was the very best the show would achieve.

"It unfortunately seems like the Alzheimer's is to blame - not that that's not perfectly understandable."

I've only read Hogfather and I never felt like I needed to have read any other novel from the series to understand it or love it. I've since read about the series, but haven't picked up any of the books.

Skyward Sword was the first game I thought of when I saw the title. If you look at the comment section of the Skyward Sword review, you will see my step-by-step rage/hate meltdown. What i really hated was that I was never given a chance to demonstrate my competence by solving the tutorial quests on my own. "Get the…

I work with a guy who escaped the camps and was able to eventually flee to Thailand and ultimately the US. Coincidentally, we've been talking about it quite a lot this week. I am going to share this with him. I don't have anything snarky to say— the things that he is able to talk about so casually are too horrible to…

I don't watch enough Jeopardy! to really understand why his "searching" scheme is more likely to land a DD than any other pattern. I've never paid attention, but are they more likely to appear in the lower half? It makes sense to try to grab the high-dollar questions first; but, if the DDs are randomly placed, any…

If anything, the second season of HOC makes the case that he's still great. Much of the season was a slog spent over-explaining a MacGuffin plot device to give breadth to Tusk/Feng/Chinese Rare Earth Refinery blah blah blah stuff. (My explanation to people who asked about what all of that was about and who had gone…

Wait, does this mean that Indiana Jones could show up in the next Kingdom Hearts?

I've never read it either, but I will still say you made the better choice.

I crafted my own rule, unbeknownst to me, for the appropriate time to pronounce the B in "subtle." It generally had to do with instances when the "hidden" connotations of the word were paramount. I really thought it was important to hit the "sub-" prefix. I was mocked for it in a linguistics class my freshman year.…

Yeah, at one of my jobs, I'm mostly self-taught from reading online and elsewhere, so I've never had cause to say some words and names aloud, so I'm often looked at with puzzlement when I say one of them. To be fair to myself, I work to say the German names correctly, which no one does even remotely.

I am probably one of the only people in the world who went to grad school for English in recent times who has never read Cather in the Rye. I'm not sure how that worked out, but it probably had something to do with moving between school districts that had slightly different curricula during the summer after 9th grade.