Silas delivers the line, "William… bringing guns to a tank battle?" If you missed it, rewatch it.

True story:

Laird,

I think the more relevant question is, will there be female orcs dancing in revealing clothing?

I just like to acknowledge people who mention Sharpe.

Sheesh, Roneesh.

Padma Lakshmi is a piece of meat, and the Western Bacon Burger is greater than either of them.

You should have played it off as mocking Extx. We'd have believed it.

His stand-up is good. Deliberately tangential, deconstructive, and moderately abusive of his audience. All of which are probably useless college-educated ways of saying it's probably not as good as I think it is.

If there's a general consensus here that "The Hours" sucked, I'll take my lumps, but I loved it. I saw it three times in the theater, and watch it regularly on DVD. As soon as Glass' pulses start, I cry like a bitch.

The OB-GYN scenes were not flashback, but VR. Her fantasy is motherhood, and the VR "imp" is tormenting her by aborting her baby.

Easy one. With the alternative rock influence, Slipknot is nu-metal. I'd argue that they did the metal community a solid by making blastbeats radio-friendly, except that really hasn't panned out.

Faith No More stylistically lays the groundwork for nu-metal, sure. Mr. Bungle even more so. But chronologically, different "era," I guess. And that era was grunge.

Daron Malakian is an asshole. I've seen him curse out security guards for standing between the crowd and the stage. But I give him credit for System's quality.

Thanks for pointing me in Ebert's direction for that one. I giggled. Stay grumpy, Ebert. We love you for it.

Kindred to Kyle…

Careful what you wish for. The immediate fallback from sassy, lisping queens is stoic, tormented, closet cases. And for the purposes of a narrative, a character in that mold has a very limited arc to travel.

I like insane. And I like Ted Danson these days.

Residual cultural debt to Nathaniel Hawthorne?

What does JAPKESIT mean?