[Why are foreign film posters sideways? Why do they write their date backwards? All this and more explained in the film.]

I failed to recap the 9^th and 10^th episode of Girls and presume everyone's seen the (excellent) finale, so I'll just make this post a space for debating the different theses put forth by the finale.

Ted (Hannahfather) tells Loreen (Hannahmother) as they're leaving therapy he's gay, he always has been, although he doesn't make any explicit avowals of homosexual behavior because he feels a sort of loyalty to Loreen, he's watched gay porn but he probably hasn't even cradled a cock in his mouth like a gay lozenge.…

I'm not quite sure what the requirements for being a teacher are but I know it requires a bachelor's degree, unless you teach in a New York private school, in which case you only need familiarity with Oedipus Rex and a 6^th grade education, according to Fran, a man with an ambiguously-gendered name in the vein of Sandy…

Huge episode of Girls tonight. The fourth season of Girls is now mounting what is sure to be a momentous climax in which the very souls of the Girls could be in danger from the villanous spectre of responsibility in terms of relationships and careers.

I suppose that as soon as Hannah decided to move to Iowa the plausibility of her continuing relationship with Adam, whose burgeoning career most definitely required him to stay in New York City (for what opportunities are there in flyover country?) became nil. Now we see the consequences of her rashness.

I don't have any areas of expertise (perhaps filtering results for internet pornography?), and certainly not in the canons of television construction, but after this past Sunday's episode of Girls, Lena Dunham's ongoing documentary series on the anthropology of the American female, even I was able to see the creators…

Once again Hannah finds herself communicating with her New York friends by Skype on a Macbook. Sometimes I find these little tidbits of modern culture in media honest but at the same time terrifying for removing the barriers to pervasive communication that used to drive a lot of conflict. Now we can be present and…

All there is in life is wheat. So begins Hannah's rabbithole trip into the heartland of America, which circulates the nourishing broth of wholesome creative values into the farthest corners of the nation. As I write this my head is leaning against my plastered walls and a strange, cooling draft is arising out of…

Earlier this evening was the fourth-season premiere of everyone's favorite television show, Girls. They continue their streak of self-serving theatrics because their lives are sad, and they do sad shit.

One thing Selma handled masterfully is violence, the foreboding of violence, the insinuation of violence held back. In the aftermath of the first confrontation on Edmund Pettus Bridge, a young lady evades the blows of a state trooper's billy club (which, because he's a government employee, is not studded with…

I regret having deleted my Twitter because I just discovered this interesting account. I was reading this article and had to google 'alternate-side parking regulations'. (In Tampa there's no such regulation, but a similar statute exists regarding which side of the street can water their lawns.) I'm left with many…

[Stage of Tampa Theatre. Cropped from: George.]

1. Anytime HotGale was visible:

Azealia Banks' new album, Broke With Expensive Taste, which I have not purchased, is not listed on her Billboard.com chart history (eta: is now at № 30) and currently stands № 39 on Amazon.com, ahead of 'Miranda Lambert' and behind 'Metallica'. It deserves to be higher on this list, although not at № 1, even thought…

I really am spending too much time on the internet and have a mind to take a brief entr'acte after two trivial listicles on literary matters. I will use this time to make improvements.

I must admit from the outset I did not have good intentions going in. What ailed my poor eyes were simple aches from the steady bath of LCD backglow I had bid them suffer this past decade. It wasn't the handcrafted lenses I needed so much as a fashionable square frame to draw out some intriguing definition from this…