I've been reading the print version since '04, the online version since '05 and commenting since '07.  There just isn't another place where the writers and commenters play at such a high level of enthusiasm and intelligence.  I'm a moderate-level Internet geek, but this is the only site I comment on.  There's such a…

Seriously, how many times can I use GODDAMMIT in one day?  I've said it before and I'll repeat it:  your Buffy/Angel reviews were the best thing this site ever did (either that or Donna's NewsRadio reviews).  I remember how geekily happy I was when you cited me for "The Gift" (which is of course about saying goodbye…

@avclub-6ffc79f9decf633c29b09e6c25621195:disqus : nah.  I'm just going into the cellar and hold onto the door reeeeeeeal tight-like.

walks away head down, sad Peanuts music playing

Me having biscotti now.  Normally me recommend it as comfort cookie.  Not now.  Me recommend 151 proof rum instead.

Professor, without knowing anything, would you say it's time for our viewers to crack open each other's heads and feast on the goo inside?

Wow.  That was amazing and a great history of the last few years here.  I miss the movie podcasts too, especially (OH GOD IT'S DUSTY IN HERE) Genevieve and Tasha on the Twilight series.  THEY STILL OWE US FOR THE LAST TWO!  THEY OWE US!!!

Goddammit, that DON'T CRY post-it on Genevieve's computer.

Whew again.  There may be a rainbow somewhere in this barn-leveling F5 shitstorm going on today.

Yes.  I'm pretty sure without Phipps and Nathan, there would be no AV Club at all.

Whew.  So there's that  (We also appreciate your Magrittesque "I'm not on staff here" next to the STAFF logo in your comment.)

My thoughts exactly.  With a bit of "YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO MEEEEEEEE!!"  I'll be fucking reasonable about this later, thank you.  This just sucks like a clean drain.

Nathan too.  It's over in the Newswire.

NATHAN TOO??????

Also a nice touch that Aaron Sorkin is in the audience for Smits' inauguration.

Second best ending in all of television.  (See above for my #1 pick, but it's pretty darn obvious.)  It's the best demonstration of the great Whedonian theme of "if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do."  And COME ON!, it has this line:  "I'm feeling grief.  I can't seem to control it.  I wish to…

Part of why I like the epilogue is that it ties back into the opening two pages, where there's this line:  "and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay," and…

I think Rorschach feels the same way.  That's why I like the last diary line, and how it ties into his last spoken line.  He knows he's not going to change (to use another Cormac McCarthy line:  "I have only one way to live.  It doesn't allow for special cases") and what he'll unleash by not changing.  He knew he…

@avclub-21a8615938a206d4311a58a53ad8890e:disqus :  you didn't miss it, there was no review this week.  According to Brandon Nowalk on Twitter, it'll be back Tuesday with the first two episodes of season 2.  (I rewatched them yesterday and holy fuck, they are good.)

In the words of a lesser (but still darned good) show, you're gonna be confronted by the instinct to drink alone. Trust that instinct, manage the pain, don't try and be a hero.