Was there anybody outside the flyover Christian mom demographic that ever saw this person as anything other than an embarrassment? Not to sound like Pauline Kael, but I don't know anyone who liked her.

I agree, although I would have liked to have seen some interest in magic by the muggle world. Can you imagine the possibilities if Raytheon or Lockheed Martin had developed a hybrid magical/technological military platform? Or if Amazon had house elves and the floo network?

He seems to be doing a great Jonathan Franzen impression, based on the photo.

Unless these are the sort of anthropomorphic dinosaurs who put their shoes in dresser drawers, I'm not clicking that link.

It's a shame Netflix never made that fourth season of Arrested Development they were talking about at one point. It would have been hilarious, I'm sure.

They could rescue this from the garbage heap by casting Paul F Tompkins as Dr Smith. You know you want to see that.

There's nothing like some powdery tang to get the blood pumping.

Wait, The Force Awakens is back in theaters?

We'll all have this to watch in that event. Heh heh heh.

It's not just single people who resent their joy. Their ostentatious happiness is cloying and abrasive, and as a barely still married person, I hate them.

Until the End of the World is a hell of a soundtrack. I recall liking the movie, but I haven't seen it since it came out, so take that with a grain of salt.

I'd take two of Alex Cox's more interesting messes, Straight to Hell and Walker, because not only would we get the Pogues in their prime, we'd also get to see Joe Strummer again.

I have to assume it's drugs or mental illness that lead a person to think the Earth is flat. No one is that dumb without help.

And homes, cars and careers! That way no one can be happy!

The day I picked up and read a copy of Greil Marcus's Mystery Train and learned about Randy Newman is the day I became a human being. This album did what almost no other could do: it made me empathize with a population I, as a Yankee and the son of immigrants, saw as both monolithic and paleolithic. This man actually…

That would make for a better movie than I was envisioning. I was thinking of this as a perfect Sam Worthington/Julianne Hough vehicle.

Oh, but give me an old pro like a Robert Redford. Oh, I'd jump into bed with him in a second. And I wouldn't just lie there, if that's what you're thinking.

Now all we have to do is wait for the inevitable announcement that this is being turned into a mid-budget, solid C- feature-length romantic comedy starring some generic young white people.

There is not much sadder than an obvious cash grab that arrives five years too late to grab any cash.

I just got David Mitchell's Slade House from the library, and have only made it about 7 pages in because of a work week that got crazy at the last minute. I like it so far, and I think I can knock it out in an evening, if I get one (I'm in California and I've been juggling clients in New York, Paris, and Hong Kong…