I consider myself a lifelong and fervent Wilco fan, and I would love to be able to mention The Whole Love in the same sentence with Yankee Hotel Foxtrot as among their best work with a straight face.  Simply not possible. To my ears the album is absolutely no different from their mid-tempo, safe, soft-rocky last…

Yup.  Great album. Really grows on you, to the point where I prefer it to Fleet Foxes' first one.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Wait, Siamese Dream sounds dated?  Um, are we sure about that?

And we are friends again, HAY!

That's because in reality, the vast majority of actual living, breathing heterosexual men ARE attracted to Bridget Jones-y bodies.  You know, to women who are healthy, have curves within normal parameters, have breasts, etc.  As opposed to the utterly fictitious "men" created by magazine writers while writing…

Great discussions going on below, and I don't have much to add. Nor time to read all, so I apologize if someone else has already said this. But I do want to take issue with Zack's ongoing inclination to see Hershel as either an emerging villian or a "deluded fool."  I certainly don't get the sense of menace or evil…

When I was around thirteen, my suburban-Chicago-dwelling family hosted my Mom's extremely large, extremely eccentric extended family at our place for Christmas.  It was truly like the first few scenes in Home Alone, sans-Culkin shenanigans and plus more good-spiritedness: just bodies everywhere, from all areas of the…

Euchre is loved the whole world over my man.  Count us Chicagoans as fans, as well.  Great call.

Yup.  Me too.  I can't watch five minutes of that movie, it ruined me so.  I'd love to read a re-evaluation of that movie a few years down the road.

And, I should also point out that the bit is fucking hilarious, and I'm not doing it justice, and you should listen to it right away.

He's more pointing out the strangeness of this phenomenon that girls "confessing" that they were tomboys always impresses the living shit out of the interviewer and the audience, and immediately pegs her as super charming… whereas, it's not viewed as charming or endearing if a man were to admit he was a girlyman when…

"Thaaaaank you…" *makes "drinky-drinky" gesture*

YES.  I love P,T & A but think that Uncle Buck is actually a better movie.  The scene you link to is awesome.  Another great example: the scene where the bitchy teenage daughter tells Buck how embarassed her parents are of him, and that they only called him because they had no other options.  It's got a level of…

Damn.  You beat me to the punch.  That is absolutely fricking hilarious though.  "Let's treat ourselves to a little cold water on the face.  Things won't seem so bad after that."

See ya later Smashed Penny!  See you next time I move.

You can remove "almost" from that sentence.  I honestly think that scene is the most disturbing portrayal of violence I've ever seen in any movie, ever. 

Pet Semetary came up in the "endings" AV Club Q&A a few weeks ago.  I maintained then and now that the ending to that book is absolutely devistating and terrifying, and easily the best of any Stephen King book.

You reminded me of Paul F. Tompkin's awesome bit making fun of those ubiquitous mirror scares.  "He's the only guy doin anything about these werewolves or whatever . . . gonna treat ourselves to a little cold water on the face . . . then HIDEOUS MONSTER IN THE MIRROR!"  Which made me laugh to myself.  So, thank you.

I prefer to pretend that all of the books after "Wizard and Glass" simply do not exist.