NO MORE BUTTERED SCONES FOR ME, MATER

Go back to North Korea with your complex, nuanced observations!

I wasn't bothered by it…I was about 13 or 14 during the time frame of this episode, and I had seen Kramer vs Kramer and was familiar with Meryl Streep and knew her reputation. She actually was pretty widely talked about even as early as '81, because of the Oscar nominations and win she had already racked up, and the…

Except it totally breaks the naming scheme set by the previous 300 films in the series.

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That's what I thought, too, when I got into this song in the 80s. The lyrics had that "kinda sound like they might mean something super profound, but probably just good sounding nonsense" quality that New Order lyrics had.

Kind of sad when your own film's marketing tries to downplay your involvement.

I admired Ellroy back when I first discovered his work, but then I made the mistake of reading/listening to his interviews. I agree, it's not the posturing itself so much as his thuddingly dull and banal declarations. He just comes off as a boring crank, and he's only gotten worse over the years. I know that a lot of…

Maybe he spouts that "I'm a Reaganite" stuff to lure conservatives into reading his books.

Interesting that you bring up Ellis, because if I understand his whole "Post-Empire" thing correctly, part of it is about dispensing with pretending to like things you're supposed to like, and just being yourself, as obnoxious as that self might be.

Frank Miller and David Mamet are two guys who have taken some very disappointing turns in their old age. "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

I figured they were all libertarians, since My Little Pony and Libertarianism are both based on fantasy and magic.

My biggest gripe with Silva is that his needlessly elaborate schemes require such perfect timing and basically godlike omnipotence that I'm constantly thrown out of the story by the artificiality of it all. I never get the sense that he's actually any kind of brilliant villain, because he never comes across as…

I enjoyed QoS, although it's depressingly obvious that it was made during the big writer's strike — the dialogue is just awful, and the storyline is as generic Bond as they come. Some of the action scenes are amazing, though — I especially liked the one on the scaffold, which was beautifully choreographed.

I liked Cee Lo, but it may be for the best. There was no way he'd ever have a winning contestant. His perverse sensibilities are just too offbeat for American audiences.

Who's being naive, WilliamBones?

"Everybody say Yeah!"

From now on twee indie pop shall be known as safecore.

I liked that one song. Not that one but the other one.