I think Peter may have thought he (and thus Alicia) had a better position with regard to the party machine than he actually does.

eh, I think for me the text is, on the whole, way less crucial than the context.

Ah, a weirdly appropriate interjection by a spam-bot!

Picked up a bunch of Chris Hasting's run on Adventure Time, a new (at least to me) issue of Sensation Comics, and, of all things, a looney tunes issue. Haven't made my way through many of them.

All I'm going to be thinking about is how much better Lana Kane would have been as Scarlett Witch with her truckasaurus hands.

If anything it makes me think they're more alien - just a mundane sort of alien with good directions and who are decent at interpreting and following directions.

16 years is actually a pretty short run for an impotent Senate.

Man, cursed sword style weapon and lineage mythology actually being in the movie?

Yeah, sort of.

Imagine you have no limbs, but you must dance…

The AVClub

Technically-ish correct!

Phillip Fathom for me.

I don't understand how the sober caveat is valid:
A. Who is Sober at 11:30pm and checking HBO in the mid-late 90s?
B. There is no Ven for who is discovering this as a DVD in the early 2000s and Sober Video Store Perusers.

My take would be that its a stylistic genre that imposes some structural concerns. I'd be more hesitant to set it up as having a purely hierarchical relationship to crime film, though it's difficult to conceive of noir as being capable of a strict distinction there.

As Colbert put it "The network Cartman built"

To be fair, there is a sense in America that 'Transparent Agenda = Trustworthy' and Fox is down to clown for that criteria.

Wow, this comments thread turned to hard-core porno in a way that was in no manner gradual or unnoticeable.

I can only assume it's about a dare between bored marketing algorithms.

Man, The Act of the Heart sounds far more interesting and less brutal here than it does anywhere else.