"GOD'S NOT REAL, SANDY! IT'S ALL BULLSHIT JUST LIKE THIS COFFEE!"

I have a feeling my step mom is going to buy that coffee for me for Christmas.

I find it weird how many people who are over 40 refer to critics or shitty people on Twitter as "haters." Especially a supposedly talented writer. Like, if Atwood said something controversial and had backlash on Twitter would she be all, "To all the haters out there #glasshouses"? Because that would blow my mind.

It seems like a lot of people who read the first book just fucking hated Quentin. He was definitely an unlikable character but I just didn't have the same visceral reaction that a lot of people had towards him. I thought that his growth from the first book through the last was pretty natural…though I will admit that…

I think that was just a throwaway joke but I do hear that criticism a lot. "I don't get it. It's just like an edgier version of Harry Potter, right?" No…no it isn't.

Penny is Quentin's rival but he isn't a villain. He often has a different agenda than the others but he is never malicious.

Ethan Hawke played your typical "weekend warrior" type of dad. Taking his kids to do the fun stuff to make up for the fact that he is hardly ever around. Arquette's character sacrificed for her kids and didn't always make the perfect choices but she was always there unlike the dad. I think that that is the reason you…

This isn't sour grapes but the fact that Cthulhu is in the main event at Wrestlemania next year and I'm not makes me sick!

Cthulhu is a part timer who is taking a main event spot away from younger FULL TIME TALENT!

So the pie sounds pretty good but is it, "I'm going to spend $50 on a goddamn pie" good?

This sounds like a joke but, honest to god, Dane Cook claimed that Steve Byrne stole material from him. That's the level of comedy we are working with here.

If Jesus really was the Messiah then I think it's really weird that most Jews are not Christians. I know that many Jews don't believe that the Messiah will be God incarnate but, still, you would think God's Chosen People would have been on board with Christ.

Totally. Two brilliant records. Two mediocre but fun records. And then there is everything else. And the gimmicks…my god, the gimmicks.

I like the feature because I think visceral reactions to art can be really interesting. For example, it's hard to determine why I hate Bob Seeger but it doesn't change the fact that I get angry whenever I hear Kathmandu. If I was forced to sit down and really think about why I just fucking hate that song then the…

I feel that way about a lot of music and movies I loved as an angsty teen. Donnie Darko is definitely on that list along with Fight Club and Memento.

Tangentially related, but I get similarly annoyed when authors also say "It means whatever you want it to mean."

That's true but Bradbury maintained that his book was more about the idea of media (particularly television) creating an illiterate society. I was just pointing out his intent as an author doesn't seem to have as much weight as the popular interpretation of his book…which I am sure would be really annoying.

I always had this opinion until I heard that famous story about Ray Bradbury getting pissed off during a talk to some students. He claimed that Fahrenheit 451 wasn't about censorship while the students argued with him that censorship was the main theme of the book. Maybe it was not his original intent but how could…

I have to admit that the Native American genocide theory is almost convincing. It's highly unlikely that that was Kubrick's intention but the guy who put it all together had interesting reasons and didn't sound like your typical conspiracy theorist. The idea that The Shining was just sort of a meditation on genocide…

I was pretty surprised at the outrage towards his essay on suicide. He also didn't get cut much slack when he read a lot of the more thoughtful criticisms, took them to heart, and wrote a pretty empathetic response. He's an easy target to some extent because he gets by with an insane work ethic as opposed to natural…