I went right to Ziggy the Pinhead.

Bonus points for using the phrase sui generis. I tell my students that you just never know when you're gonna run into a random Latin phrase, & this is a good example—in a movie review on a pop culture website*!

My guess is it already HAS happened, somewhere.
I won't be looking it up, however.

Bit o' both, I imagine.

Ohhhhhhhhh. Thanks for clarifying, @citizenconn:disqus!

Likewise, there's a small island off (& part of) Maryland that has a unique accent, preserved by its isolation, that hearkens back to the earliest settlers.

I'm wondering whether Hiddleston is also playing the guitar? If so, did he already know how to play the guitar, or did he learn for the part? NO MANY QUESTIONS! Well, two, but still.

When I first got hold of Ellroy, I wasn't aware of the series-oriented nature of the books, so I just read 'em as I got 'em. Some day, I should probably read the L.A. Quartet in order of publication. And I should probably re-read American Tabloid, which I read so long ago I don't remember many details.

I suppose you could wait till the book hits ebay.

The correct plural form is Sleaters-Kinney.

Sounds cool! I've never been to Paris, but I've been down in the catacombs of San Callisto outside Rome. Those are less creepy, though, because there aren't any visible remains—some have been removed & re-interred elsewhere, some are sealed up.

Fun Fact: Perdita, the lead actress' real name, is a Latin perfect passive participle, meaning "ruined/lost/wasted", or, as in later Christian writing, "damned" (whence the English derivative perdition). I don't suppose the filmmakers make any use of this interesting coincidence?

Agreed. The generally smart & civil, if snarky, tone of the commentariat here at the good old A.V. Club is what got me here, & what's kept me here. I'm not a gamer, so I tend not to read the comments on gaming articles (& often skip the articles themselves), but this piece caught my eye. The level of vitriol in…

* drops monocle into brandy snifter *

But even the "strong, successful, and inspirational" women put up with this bullshit, just walking down the street, every day. Being objectified or worse doesn't shatter most women—nobody is even suggesting that. And successful women, whatever that means, aren't successful because they WEREN'T harassed, they're…

All this is new to me, so I have to I'm stunned that it's THAT bad. The shitty sexist/rapey comments, sure—that's sadly super-common. But what you're describing is clearly & frighteningly crossing a line. If it's not flat out illegal, it should be.

But even a casual bit of research reveals alarmingly sexualized & violent "criticisms" against people like Sarkeesian, not just "I disagree with you & here's why". Precisely the point you seem to really want to overlook is how different the nature of these "criticisms" is when the comments are aimed at women rather…

Just out of curiosity, how many death threats do you think is an OK amount? I guess daily death threats would cross the line, but is it OK if she gets, say, weekly death threats? Maybe I'm nuts, but if I were on the receiving end of death threats, ONE would be too fucking many.

Re your C): Are you serious? How is ANY death threat OK, just because, well, that guy probably won't kill her? And whether she gets thousands of death threats or one, all it takes is one if there is follow-through.

Another version of the story has the Romans inverting Peter's cross in mockery of Jesus' crucifixion, so who knows?