Faintly, from a distance: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I miss Horsefellow much more than is probably healthy.

Considering Carlin's atheism and lifelong tenuity the first spelling probably works too.

I guess it doesn't strike me as a significant distinction — if anything should be disqualified, it's Caveman, where the dialogue represents an actual language that isn't supposed to be English. But I take your point that the entry on CO is underdeveloped.

To Unique Thinker's interesting point, I think we're meant to take Alex as a particularly gifted linguistic innovator who is working with the raw materials of youth slang. Also he's the narrator so Burgess gives him license to be more eloquent (and Joycean — Burgess was a big admirer of Joyce). But viddy Pete on page…

The argument that CO doesn't qualify because it doesn't "twist the English language" is just not correct. First, Russian borrowings and half-transformations into English ARE examples of twisting the language; second, "a bit of the old in-out" anyone? "Smurf" is not English for chrissake but Smurflish certainly twists…

See "work for hire" explanation in by Andy Bob Jo in previous thread, which likely captures what is the case with most film productions. Even film composers (where you might make the argument that the score is a semi-independent artistic work) do their work for hire:
http://www.artistshousemusi…

Must … avoid … nostalgia tailspin …

Well played, o sloppy one.

Oh good god, Topher is short for Christopher? I feel a little stupid that this never occurred to me but … wow.

There's nothing cuter than Pam, in seasons 1-3 especially, when she was shy and in puppy love with Jim. But Jenna Fischer with her Excel spreadsheets and self-help books? Help! It's a case study in the difference between fantasy and reality.

Indeed you've risen above the throng, pfapfap.

The real Lincoln would know that it's "cite."

David Brent's brand of smugness is, I would bet, the only kind Gervais would ever display regarding atheism. He's too smart not to see the hubris. When I think of Gervais and atheism, the image that comes immediately to mind is the heartbreaking despair you glimpse in Brent's face when his ridiculous facade gets…

Scotch tastes like an old cork to me. Call me unrefined. Irish whiskey or Kentucky bourbon for me.

Chris Farley's finest moment.

If the internet existed in 1973 it would sound like this. Just think how far we've come.

That's what I get for logging on for the first time in months. Oh well. I remember being bored by Ed Wood and finding JD's performance annoying — who knows, maybe I was wrong, it's been years. Actual Ed Wood movies are far more entertaining.

He's good in Dead Man, Edward Scissorhands, Cry Baby. That's about it. (The Ninth Gate is pretty terrific although what is terrific about it has very little to do with his performance.) I don't see anything resembling acting in his portrayals of Ed Wood, Hunter Thompson, Willy Wonka, Jack Sparrow or any of those other…

Those crazy Nazies, what'll they think of next?