Or it might be because Herbert is a terrible writer. Just as long as we're throwing out possibilities.

Could be fun…but maybe possibly we could have fewer AVclub articles that read like press releases?

When you someone eat it?

It's okay to enjoy watching someone killing a room full of people because it's a goofily over-the-top fight scene in a goofily over-the-top movie. Crikey.

I have never understood why people have so many problems with that scene. Do you mourn the death of EVERY faceless baddie in every action movie ever made, or what?

Good, I'm glad I'm not going insane—I watched the movie on a bootleg DVD purchased in Morocco, and I was kinda baffled by all this talk of some scene or other that I had no memory of.

I'm writing this years later, of course, but I just want to point out to anyone who may see this that if you ever read Anthony Trollope's novel The Small House at Allington, the word "hoddledehoy" will be burned into your brain.

I know nobody's going to see this, given that it's three years old, but I just want to point out that you're dumb and have no idea what you're talking about.

Why is a New York Times piece a "great job, internet" thing?

I had the DS version of N+, which was fine; I feel like a game like this really, really belongs on a portable system. I might whip it out and have a go in odd moments of downtime, but am I REALLY going to bother to play if I have to be tethered to a TV the whole time? Unlikely.

Genisys does what Nintendon't.

Is this some sort of obscure joke? I don't get it.

Conceivably someone's mentioned this, I cannot bring myself to sift through all the comments, but Donald Barthelme wrote his lovely, hilarious, and humane novel The King while dying of throat cancer.

Hmm. I read Proust recently, from November to January, more or less. There's no question that the man was a genius, but I can't say I particularly enjoyed it (though interestingly enough, or not, my subjective opinion was that The Guermantes Way was easily the best part, in spite of what this article alleges). Sure…

Yup—there are a lot of assessments of this episode going on.

Personally, I'm waiting for someone to take on Graham Parker's anti-abortion ballad "You Can't Be too Strong." I actually LIKE Parker in general, but GOOD LORD is that song ever rancid.

Bratmobile was the name of the band in Gone Home. That's all I got.

That commercial is totally charming. That is all.

I'm trying to fathom this bizarre alternate universe I've apparently just entered where "Peace Love and Understanding," of all things, is Elvis Costello's best-known song. Not there yet, though.

"Sex Dwarf," great song, yes. But why no mention of "Seedy Films," which is pretty much equivalently great? Is it just because the title is less attention-grabby?