Agreed, Wonder Boys and Mysteries of Pittsburgh are the only Chabon novels I've really loved. I admire a lot of his other stuff, but I've never been taken away by them the way I was those two books (and that includes Kavalier & Clay).

I remember laughing out loud during some portions of Risk Pool, but I also remember crying like a baby at the end.

In regards to Hannibal, it would have been just you. The show was freely available online on hulu and NBC the day after it aired, no paywall, no delay, wouldn't even have had to register if you didn't want to.

Will somebody PLEASE turn the volume down on that guy's point, its so loud!

The king ordered it!!!

Just curious, as I haven't watched the show but assume it must address this, why don't they just have FBI agents take the pills to germs the brain superpowers and solve the crimes, rather than leaning in this one random dude to always take the pills?

I always thought the funnier part of that was Rock made fun of a lot of guys but apparently Penn only saw fit to defend Jude Law…so I guess Penn was on board with Rock's jokes about the other actors?

(but not really so much in our hearts)

I know they're white…but who's on 2nd?

"basically my face was in [DiCaprio’s] butt"

I could have sworn that is was reported last year that this is exactly what they were doing, that Iron Fist ultimately didn't fit in the larger netflix universe so they were putting it on the back burner and going with a Punisher series instead.

But the twist is that Creed is a Bernie Sanders loving liberal socialist, and the big Russian is desperate to revolutionize his country with a true capitalistic democracy. And instead of fighting they make out.

Made up? Ummm…did you miss the part of the thesis where they said, "for sure."

What is meant exactly by referring to now as the Black List era? Like any movie that isn't comic book/remake/prequel/sequel is de facto black listed? Or something else? Just curious, its the first time I've heard the phrase "black list era."

The metaphor is probably more akin to "I really liked the sandwich shop, though I wasn't a big fan of the fact that they mostly sold sandwiches."

I watched that entire Update piece just to see the improvement the article is talking about, and boy I feel like I must just be on a different wavelength than everyone else, that was, at best, plain (admittedly though the joke-exchange bit got a laugh out of me). The article described that in the past it felt like…

"What we're about to do…should be left to God."

"A universe of stories…"

I thought he was going to relate it to a more general point, maybe about true love or something…but then he just kept going…and then just "and that's why I love the movie" before apparently his media guy made him leave. So…I have no idea what to make of it…

Why would being born in America's largest national park disqualify you from being president?