Feel better indeed.  As a Shield viewer, I suggest Throat Tamer tea.  And beating the shit out of some perps.

Aw thanks!  I never thought that Shawn Ryan went in for allusions like that, but he did note that he deliberately cheated in that scene—actual cops breaking in would be yelling at each other that they'd cleared the room, so forth.  The silence is very intentional in that scene, so if there was ever a moment when he…

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus: Amazing, isn't it?  I'm told Princeton does an all-day reading of it occasionally (like many places do with Ulysses).  I'd love to join in someday.

Kill Bill

"Yes, that's right. 12 silk shirts, men's medium, no collar, extra symbolism."

I had the idea once of a film of Gravity's Rainbow as a 1960s/1970s story of someone trying to find what happened to Tyrone Slothrop and Rocket 00000.  Kind of like Cronenberg's Naked Lunch but in reverse.

Yes, although there's supposed to be a German film called Test Stand VII that's a documentary mixed with filmed passages of Gravity's Rainbow.

"shit he can't even see and twice as reprehensible coming from a woman who's supposed to be one of our allies"

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus :  by its nature, Against the Day is a great novel to just check in and out of occasionally.  There's one strong plotline but past that, the Chums of Chance give you an idea of what it will be like:  a set of events seen from a long way off.  There's a moment near the…

Crying of Lot 49 is the most skippable Pynchon work (he hates it); it's too schematic to be a novel. His short story "Entropy" does the same job at sketch length.

I would have said he was a lock for Denis, but whatever.  (Every time I read Denis' dialogue now, I'll hear Owen Wilson's voice.)

Oh my yes.  Thing is, after Gravity's Rainbow, all the other novels are easy.  (Against the Day is longer but an easier read.)  You'll probably blow through Inherent Vice in an afternoon now.

Hm.  I'll have to reread it (never a mistake).  It's possible (likely even) that my perspective got skewed by the Ustinov-Stamp-Robert Ryan film (see above).  (How fantastic was Ryan as Craggart, anyway?)

Oh man, you put young Terence Stamp in your movie and any heterosexuality becomes subtext.  Or really non-text.

I know you've been busy, but seasons 4-6 of Lost were covered here, and Noel recapped and discussed the first three seasons as part of those reviews (I think largely in the season 4 reviews).  Enjoy!

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus :  fuck that!  We need a Will Harris panel at Comic-Con.  The best part is, everyone else will be standing in line for something else and we'll all get in.

Still, it's weird to call it "Melville's 1924 novella" when that's 33 years after he, y'know, died.

1924?  For that matter, faint homoerotic subtext?

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