Burden of Dreams is great.

I feel like I've never seen you this effusive, not even about Karina!

I'm rather looking forward to the new season as well. I found the first season a little more uneven than did its staunchest supporters, but at its best it was a very funny romp, and Kemper was certainly never anything less than delightful throughout.

Is that a punning reference to something in the new season or just an undeniably accurate observation?

Superb.

It was pretty ubiquitous in his own day too. It rhymes, is reasonably short, and is about the death of a famous person.

"O Captain! My Captain! is something I rarely see discussed as one of Whitman's best poems. "Lilacs" is sort of commonly seen as his masterpiece.

Controversial opinion, dude!

Life?

Watching without subtitles could potentially help hone your understanding, though, no?

Yay! I do have a religious temperament after all.

It doesn't work nearly as well! I wonder who changed it.

Yeah, she's almost into it for a bit there. Changes the whole dynamic.

Oh, I am an ancient traveller along life's dusty highway. I have seen many things you could not believe or even conceive. Weep for the sorrows which have come within the sphere of my vision, Semi. Wisdom sprouts from the Tree of Death, and now I sit, a solitary old man in a solitary battle scarred tower, wistfully…

The genuine resonance of "California Christmastime" is partly assisted by Rachel Bloom being herself a California native, but I think you are right to highlight its significance as an expression of character development.

Hmmm, the Owl of Minerva, symbol of wisdom, is next to a serpent, ancient representative of heretical Gnosis. Clearly the woman with a sword is meant to represent you armed with the power of esoteric enlightenment. xkcd is an even more dark and impious enterprise than I feared.

I almost never turn off my phone, but I do turn off the sound and put it away. *Maaaaaybe* if I'm incredibly bored or need to use the bathroom I'll check the time, but in a manner as covert as possible under the circumstances.

It's one of the canniest and most seductive theatrical effects on the whole album.

Agreed entirely. Though I might position it as the great triptych of "A Winter's Ball/Helpless/Satisfied".

Are his novels as good as his acting?