I like this movie for many reasons, one of them for teaching an undergrad me that camera movement alone can impart information about characters and the scene.

I like this movie for many reasons, one of them for teaching an undergrad me that camera movement alone can impart information about characters and the scene.

So, would this make undergrads more or less likely to select the "Great Books 101" option to fill the literature requirement?

So, would this make undergrads more or less likely to select the "Great Books 101" option to fill the literature requirement?

The best use of "And we're back!" ever was the bit in Kentucky Fried Movie where the couple preparing to git it on listens to a how-to record.

The best use of "And we're back!" ever was the bit in Kentucky Fried Movie where the couple preparing to git it on listens to a how-to record.

Nope, only read a few books. Have only seen the initial tv interview series.

Nope, only read a few books. Have only seen the initial tv interview series.

It's posts like these that make me not only appreciate Oneal's writing style but all the commentor section ably mixing antebellum U.S. history discussions with those on college football. This post is highly self-congratulatory of course but a good round to you all!

It's posts like these that make me not only appreciate Oneal's writing style but all the commentor section ably mixing antebellum U.S. history discussions with those on college football. This post is highly self-congratulatory of course but a good round to you all!

I'd like to rep for the LaserTime podcast, done by all ex-TalkRadar guys, especially their bit of dramatic readings of erotic fan fiction of videogame characters from a coupla weeks ago. They tried another one this week that didn't go as well.

I'd like to rep for the LaserTime podcast, done by all ex-TalkRadar guys, especially their bit of dramatic readings of erotic fan fiction of videogame characters from a coupla weeks ago. They tried another one this week that didn't go as well.

Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth interviews with Bill Moyers when I was 18 or so. Raised Presbyterian, which is pretty loose, and this series expanded that by introducing comparative religion to my toolbag. As Bill Moyers mentions in the show, finding out about the history of myth and cultures from across the planet…

Joseph Campbell's Power of Myth interviews with Bill Moyers when I was 18 or so. Raised Presbyterian, which is pretty loose, and this series expanded that by introducing comparative religion to my toolbag. As Bill Moyers mentions in the show, finding out about the history of myth and cultures from across the planet…

I wish the Ancient Ones would just be placated by tossing some virgins into volcanoes or a stoning or three so's the next harvest would be fine. Now we need subsidiaries of one megacorp putting out multi-million dollar pieces about a subsidiary of another megacorp and oy vey with all these complications now!

I wish the Ancient Ones would just be placated by tossing some virgins into volcanoes or a stoning or three so's the next harvest would be fine. Now we need subsidiaries of one megacorp putting out multi-million dollar pieces about a subsidiary of another megacorp and oy vey with all these complications now!

Yeah, this doesn't qualify as "cashing in," now does it? Unless every book written by every muso somehow does?

Yeah, this doesn't qualify as "cashing in," now does it? Unless every book written by every muso somehow does?

High Plains Drifter.

I like Greg Proops' joke that Anderson Cooper as the son of Gloria Vanderbilt had no choice not to be gay because "of course!"