I will give you credit for coinciding your comment with your avatar very well.

I read The Corrections a few months ago and loved it, and I've been thinking about reading Freedom for a while, especially because I really liked an excerpt from it in the New Yorker. I don't know though, because much of The Corrections took place very near where I live, which made me feel a deep connection to it, so…

Mad Men seems to be getting exponentially stranger, and subsequently better, throughout its run, so I would agree that it is going to get incredibly interesting and great by the season's end.

I'll be obvious and take Firefly, but The Chicago Code from last year was very underrated.

I know this has been said a lot, but I think it is very true that an Obama win is almost guaranteed by war. Considering that we are still in Afghanistan and in the process of Obama's exit strategy (though Romney did say he would more or less stick to it), escalating situations in Syria, Pakistan and Iran, and the…

I'm so glad this show is back, and with a very strong episode at that. I laughed my ass off every time Aziz Ansari said "puuupies", even though he did the same thing with buuunies earlier this season, it was even more hilarious this time.

Well Ryan Shay was on Mad Men this week (and cut Pete Campbell down to size at that) so he was at least was on TV this week. As for me, I really liked this episode, largely because the humor came out of the situations and the the traits of the characters, not cruelly poking fun at archetypes (like the "purvy nerd"…

Is that a Firefly quote or just a general euphemism? I' m confused…

Well she had a tattoo and smoked, but people do get/do those things underage. Still, since she was going out with Jimbo, and said that she wanted to have an affair with an older man, I find 13 or 14 hard to buy.

Did anybody else find that plotline disturbing, and not in a good way? I think it was that the show treated it as no big deal, or even sweet, that a 17 year old was having constant make-out sessions with a ten-year-old. I think it would have been less disturbing if the show had acknowledged how messed up that was.

I didn't notice it, but from what you're saying it sounds like that Perry had a cold or something, and it was gone by the time they shot the elevator scene.

I "liked" your comment only because it was on your album.

Buck is my favorite member too, so I'm glad Murmur was the second R.E.M. album I listened to, because otherwise, I would have had that inherent bias like you did. I can't say exactly what I love about Buck so much, his playing just has this beautiful, distinct, yet undefinable aesthetic.

I never knew whether Bono actually thought catorce meant four in Spanish (it's fourteen for those of you who don't know), or if he just thought it sounded cooler than quatro.

It was as if Quarles was a little kid who wanted a toy, and Raylan was his big dad who held it out of his reach. Sickly hilarious.

flowsthead Your contention that Chase has been antagonistic throughout the show's history is interesting, because I think we can perceive their relationship by looking at how the show treats Pierce. At first, Pierce was extremely benevolent, and slowly devolved into an antagonistic, racist, asshole, and ruiner of…

I'd notice that all of the show's black characters would then be criminals.

I also enjoy their occasional Malcolm Gladwell article, though his output for the New Yorker is more frequent and better overall.

Also, the AV Club has the best fucking interview subjects too. It seems like the core group of writers, actors, directors, etc. who are relevant to the site want to talk to AVC more than anyone else.

I took it as more of Ted being, as AVC described him in the best TV of the 00s feature, mildly douchey, in assuming things would be great and perfect if an obscure Democrats were elected president. Also, it was Dean in 06 and Kucinich in 09 if my memory serves me right.