'Sasuke' still airs in Japan, but since G4 is no more, I don't know that there's anywhere to watch it in North America. The bro-tastic American version is a pale imitation-I liked the way the Japanese announcers sometimes made fun of the competitors, but also admired their effort, etc. On the US version they spend…

Oh yes-I forgot that he's mostly in the dark about the clones. He seemed so easygoing with Helena's crazy 'stories' that I figured he wouldn't blink too much at the clone craziness, but perhaps that is stretching it. I guess my only minor quibble for the episode is that there wasn't at least a throwaway line about it..

In case anyone is still lurking around the comments-

I feel like Pablo Honey is a victim of retrograde high expectations. If memory serves (and let's face it, I ain't getting any younger), the consensus in among my friends and I was it was 'good, sometimes great, but not amazing'. I have wondered if you had to have listened to it first, and around the time of its…

Detour- 67 minutes of b-film noir batshit crazy perfection.

Ah, ok-I misread. Apologies! I don't know that I agreed with the 'Birdman' review, but I did like reading it. It's always nice to remember that critics should make us think about experiences rather than simply support our opinions/assumptions.

Yes, contentious reviews of critically lauded films are worth a giggle? That was ages ago.

There's already a Pitchfork of movies-and they gave this movie 1 1/2 stars:

The description of this movie in the review sounds like something a kid who is in one of my film classes would make after nodding off in the back of the class all semester.

I just read this to myself in George Jefferson's voice and it was that much funnier.

I think something should also be said about the cumulative effect of these events too. On one hand, it seems like folks might be increasingly desensitized, but on the other, perhaps there is a heightening of the effect of traumatic things happening. I think you could also argue that familiarity with the characters is…

(he also allegedly had an affair with January Jones)

Congrats on a successful conference! I've been to several at this point and while they're exhausting, the good ones are invigorating. I tend to skip evening dinners/events to give myself a couple of quiet hours in my hotel room in the evening to process the various papers I heard and folks I talked to each…

It does not, and as I'm no authority on transgender topics I'm not willing to even venture a guess as to its origins or popularity (sorry). I'll have to look through some recent gender studies journals and scholarly stuff in the library to find out more..

In case anyone is wondering about the term:

'Oh hello Val/Dalla'-yay!

I figured we were basically of the same opinion on this-just wanted to clarify!

To be fair, first wave feminism had very different terms than the current wave, and I don't like the idea of dismissing someone just because they're somehow not 'doing feminism right'.

I particularly liked the way it looked like a silent movie intertitle.

'Old people dog whistles' :(