I guess if you have 'em set up like that, it has to be done, doesn't it?

Screw him. He just needs to deliver my goddamn presents.

I remember liking Way of the Gun. Though it's probably been a good 10 years since I've seen it, so maybe it doesn't hold up?

I've only read The Hot Rock…and I'll say this, at least he comes closer than Robert Redford. (Though in fairness, I kinda like Redford, and I can see where having him play the smartish, slowburn-prone leader of the pack would make sense. The problem is, it makes Dortmunder look like Robert Redford.)

It's all Greek to him.

Quit quoting the poster.

That's what she said.

Apology accepted! (It's underrated.)

What's an ass Jewess?

Eerie. But in truth, he's merely heckling AC, subtly signaling a reminder of the policies of Neville Chamberlain, making sure he never forgets that AC's father once supported appeasement of Hitler.

I kept wishing Nick had had the presence of mind to say a version of your comment back to that guy. Not that I would have either, but sheesh. And the one chef, the blonde, can't remember her name, acting aggrieved over it really irritated me. "I would have surrendered immunity, it's just the honorable thing, and the…

Communist.

Yeah, I've heard the book is really good. Never read it though. Maybe the film makers fancied they were doing a Coen Brothers/True Grit thing and doing their own adaptation rather than a remake of a film?

If Biden goes long, Poehler gets humped.

Presumably not in that order?

I like to think that avatar photo was taken three seconds after you hit Post.

So NOW you share your advice…

I know! I mean, it's almost as bad as knee-jerkily deriding something as intellectual feather-puffing just to earn yourself faux-populist credit points.

I liked NPs' last one (Together, I think?), but yeah, nothing quite so well since Twin Cinema. Challengers in particular never grabbed me—I guess it wasn't going for the power-pop quite so much, so fair enough, but the oblique lyrics they all seem to trade in kinda needs some melodic oomph. As if the catchiness kinda…

I wonder if the problem is, if you read something like Infinite Jest for the plot strands and the narrative construction, you're less likely to enjoy it than if you read it for, say, the author's "voice" or some such. That doesn't mean someone's wrong to read fiction for plot, story, etc, but there are some stories…