What's the Kafka explanation? The ear of corn is a garmonbozia allusion.

There's a two week hiatus now too :(

If that Albert Pike quote one of the forum users has jumps out at you, go to Wikiquote, where it is sourced to ""1860. In *Lodge* of Sorrow at *Washington*: March 30.", p. 11. Wikiquote immediately compares the sentiment to a Giordano Bruno quote. Now go to the Youtube video for the Nine Inch Nails song that was…

Started Persona 5. Will keep Shingami and Stingo informed at to my thoughts if they still desire.

I have to assume they intend to be at least a *little* funny.
Edit: This is brilliant, actually, to me

Paprika is one of the craziest fucking things I've ever seen. I have to like it for that reason alone.

I'll show this bastard what it really means to be crushed by modern life.

I'll take it!

Oh.

Who got Narrator banned? Show yourself, coward.

Brody's a good writer and I like some of his opinions, but I always had the vague sense he was kind of full of shit. Glad to see him go out of his way to confirm it.
http://www.newyorker.com/cu…
(the actual headline is somehow much funnier than my paraphrase)

Sublime. Bellisimo.

According to Richard Brody, this film marks Michael Bay as a liberated experimental auteur, so I'm sure we'll all be buying tickets soon.

Do you think that was a deliberate allusion? It seems almost too specific otherwise.

That was also extremely good.

I think my favorite scene in the whole episode was the after hours one in the Great Northern, for being simultaneously erotically charged and vaguely unsettling.

Apparently Nintendo ran a sex motel or two in Japan before the video game thing really took off.

I really like that you treated that as a spoiler.

I mean, almost definitely?

Janey-E is the best wife ever, how dare you