Is she cute? She sounds like my type.

Saddleback and Alex, I remember that episode. Shit, I didn't even remember that show until you guys mentioned it, but I remember that episode. It gave me a very weird introduction to the concept of rape, let me tell you.

Fuck it, I guess I'm going to out myself — this is a hilarious video game joke of some kind?

A big part of what is stable and functional in the European economy is that no-one assumes you are defined as a human being by your chosen career, and as a corollary, that you are a failure because you are not your own boss. Gleeth, of course you are right that some people do succeed on their own initiative, drive,…

Sorry, man, but that sounds like some Horatio Alger bullshit to me. The vast majority of working people in the U.S. work for someone else. You can't base an economic system on the exception cases and then blame the typical for pulling too weakly on their bootstraps.

Currently the only thread with no OTP.

I especially love it when the boss tells you it's a meritocracy in order to justify doing whatever the fuck he wants no matter what anyone thinks.

Low-hanging fruit = the easy targets you hit first, in any new project / sales effort / whatever.

RG, you could probably work "low-hanging fruit" in there somewhere.

I see you beat me to this point, which I also make above. Netflix itself is really taking off with the streaming content but its selections are still fairly limited. That's a place where Hulu could actually compete but they need a very compelling library.

In what kind of job can you do nothing but watch Hulu all day? Security guard at the Museum of String? Salesman at the Slightly Irregular Store? Nuclear missile silo technician?

Relativity Bear, I just checked, and sadly, only Season 1 remains. AD is what brought me to Hulu; I watched the entire run once through, and was hoping to be able to do so again.

This is a fucking weird idea for an album. Why turn prose into songs? Predictably, it sounds like prose sort of vaguely shaped into a song, based on "California Zephyr" and "Low Life Kingdom" anyway. Kerouac wrote a fair amount of poetry — maybe try that?

Whoops, Dr. Strangelovecraft already made the Red Arnall reference.

The song "Cocaine Blues" made famous by Johnny Cash was written by Red Arnall in 1947.

Mom, one of the ways you can tell a successful film (or any successful work of art) is that you never really get done talking about it. This one clearly succeeds by that test.

Might as well face it, you're addicted to spuds.

The Wild Things world is very unstable. I didn't mean to claim they are supposed to be parent figures and leave it at that. Max is generally more mature than the Wild Things, but he only gets that way by pretending to be a king, a fragile role that eventually unravels. KW and Carol are not always parental, but at…

I get why. I mean, nobody cares if they fuck up Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (which they totally did by the way), but many people have a vested interest in WTWTA, and this film is not going to live up to everyone's expectations. Jonze is not reverent; he puts his stamp on it pretty heavily.

All of these descriptions are pretty accurate, except that I see these traits as aspects of the film's success rather than its failure. But Turan is reductive to say the creatures have been turned into neurotic adults. Clearly, as with the book, the creatures are projections of Max's own interiority. They morph into…