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Holy Land:  a Suburban Memoir, a short impressionistic/scientific/historical book on Lakewood, CA.  Amazing, even moving stuff.

"Give me two popsicle sticks and a rubber band and I'll find a way to fuck it.  Like a filthy MacGiver."

Myself:  The Royal Tenenbaums, Yojimbo, Throne of Blood, the Qatsi trilogy, The Killing, and Fear and Desire (on Kino, but also half price).  I have now completed my 10 Best Films of the 00s and my Kubrick collections.

For the most part, I love Disneyland.  I didn't go there until my 20s (having not, y'know, lived in California), and what struck me then and still impresses me is how, unlike other theme parks, there is a genuine personality there and sense of wonder, not just things to excite you.  The use of space, the original…

Doesn't matter why.

Try this:  slice up the kielbasa and pan fry it with potatoes (cook them almost completely first), onion, salt, pepper, and a little beer.  (I add some Tabasco as well.)  It's an insanely good cold-weather dish.

See this week's Shield review.  I put off watching "Mum" until the last possible moment.

Hope you like the. . .Doors!

The only way Honey Boo Boo would be tolerable is if all viewers were forced to watch a Michael Apted 7N Up-style series that revisited her and her family every seven years, so viewers could see the consequences of the childhood that they find so fucking entertaining now.

J. Anthony Lukas.  His work Common Ground, about busing in Boston in the early 1970s, is the finest journalism I've ever read, absolutely sympathetic to everyone involved, and with enough depth to make you understand what was going on, and how intractable it was.  Probably John McPhee, too, although that's more of a…

I think that willingness to leave issues unresolved comes from The Shield's commitment to storytelling.  We're not seeing entire lives here, and we're not meant to.  What we're seeing is only the consequences of a series of actions, and when the consequences of those particular actions are over, the series ends.

This makes sense, because Lynch's entire aesthetic is like a nightmare after a traumatic visit to Disneyland.  And my first reaction to the It's a Small World ride was to think it was something out of Lynch, with all the little creatures dressed differently BUT STILL EXACTLY THE SAME singing that damn song, just a…

@avclub-75d39da149b417acd80ac7f94314e08d:disqus :  well said and point definitely taken.  It would be more accurate to say that The Shield has no interest in therapy or diagnosis, not that it has no interest in psychology. There's no attempt to explain how anybody got that way (once again, we shall ignore That…

I suspect the AV Club is becoming whatever it's going to become, and quickly; I'm afraid it's headed in the direction of brief, quote-laden discussions of whatever was on last night.  (Television Without Pity:  Electric Boogaloo maybe?)  One of the things that attracted me to this place was the sense of standards…

@LJo1:disqus :  just remember that this show never hits the reset button.

@avclub-f8f8c273f326be25421cc62737d24a9e:disqus , you now well and truly own.

A great choice by (I think) Shawn Ryan:  where anyone else would have Aceveda throwing up at the end, here he can't throw up, he can't get the come and dicksweat and whatever else out.  He has to take it, which

Hmm, that music is Hans Zimmer from The Thin Red Line.  Wonder if it will become the new Clint Mansell's Requiem for a Dream theme for all trailers.

I don't think we find out.  But it might be one more reason why Aceveda isn't coming home, besides not wanting to face anyone about what happened, especially not Aurora.