Wizard People, Dear Reader is both my dealmaker and dealbreaker. Preferring the vastly inferior first recording is rank heresy, and those who do will some day be purged in the holy wars. Thank god Adams posted the true version.

If Gilliam had done it instead of Chris Columbus we wouldn't have Wizard People. No Harry Potter movie by Gilliam would come close to the beauty of Wizard People.

He was against French intervention in Mali, for god's sake. If there was ever an open and shut case for intervention that was it. I mean I'm still pissed off about Iraq too but we're allowed to take things on a case to case basis.

I hear there's a drought. Maybe it's related to that.

So you're not rich enough for her parents and she's enculturated not to go against their wishes? Alright here's what you need to do. Leave her to go make your fortune. Don't leave any indication of when you'll be back, if ever. Eventually she'll give up on you ever coming back and marry her long time neighbor. At…

Question, while it's obviously a little weird, is it outright socially unacceptable to fuck someone who's fucked your sibling?

How would you rate the likelihood that she kidnapped herself?

I read The Unnamed a year or two ago. It was beautifully written, the central metaphor was potent, and it thoroughly failed to grip me. I feel bad saying it because it's the most brutal review I can imagine. "Your craft is great but somehow your book just isn't good". It's so unhelpful that I would probably give…

Thing about Man City, they always try to walk it in

I guess their pleas fell on dead ears.

Wait, the show is set in Bemidji instead of Brainerd? Fargo purists must be outraged.

This week? Yes.

Better yet, while the door into a pit is a trap when you first open it, it actually ends up being an important short cut.

When I think about The Lady Eve, this is the scene I think of. Good choice.

Yeah, sorry. The BCE jab was a pretty low blow. My better judgment was overridden on that one.

The conquest of the Messenians happened centuries before the Persian wars and the stripping of citizenship of those with only one Athenian parent happened decades after. (Themistocles himself had a Thracian mother). BCE dates work in reverse. But yeah, Athens was at the bottom of the barrel when it came to women's…

Hey now, let's not let fondness for one adaptation lead us to dismiss others. The mid-90s Jeff Lau directed, Stephen Chow starring version is pretty great.

I'm the captain now.

Quiet, you're getting in the way of our righteous leftist fury.

No, thank you.