Yikes! C+, I guess?

Not liking the film that a lot of Von Trier fans here haven't seen? It's the perfect strategy!

I never read the book, so I'm coming at the film from the perspective of a fan of schlock who's seen all of Lynch's work up to that point. I've noticed a pattern of book fans who are really unhappy with Lynch's take, and I totally get that.

Tap tap tap.

"So what!? So let's dance!"
Turns golf-bag radio up.
Bickachow Bickachow Doomp ["Money" continues playing.]
Cut to hammers marching across golf course.

Any doubts about Toto's role in Lynch's version can be dispelled now.

"LSD without the LSD" is just a stupid idea for a film. It's like that idea I had freshman year to confine a bunch of drug users to one area, observe them via CCTV over the course of several days of drug-fueled drugginess, and use those observations to write parts in a movie about drugs.

In my observation, there are more pubescent women than you'd expect being inducted into sexuality by twenty-year-olds. Face it, you lipstick liberals — this is your target demographic, and you're not engaging with it.

It's in scripture, dude.

Hey, guys! Ken Knabb was right all along! Progress has happened! We don't have to comment on the A.V. Club anymore! It does it for us!

A helpful poem, by your loving friend, Dr. Henry Kissinger.

Frank uses "Chris Conley". It's very … effectively annoying?

I've had that issue sporadically throughout the past week or so. Just go off and read some other articles and come back. They'll probably show up eventually.

One of my exes liked me to piss on her abdomen and thighs, but only in the shower.

From the inevitable New Yorker expose:

That's awesome. The closest celebrity resemblance to my dad is John Lennon, and he loves the Pythons, so I guess technically my dad has to be played by Neil Innes.

I'm feeling the hit with all these escapade concept episodes, too. Alice is such a necessary foil to the guys, a person who doesn't even care what their bullshit is — she's just not having any of it because she has to deal with real problems not pertaining to their ridiculous sandbox fantasy world — and not having her…

I haven't watched this one yet, and this season has definitely gone down the tubes a bit — but I seem to be in the minority of absolutely loving Blake giving CPR to the dead fish, so I'm going to keep my mind open.

I've always thought that you need to have the sort of love that's more of a familial responsibility to help each other out when they really need it, but a misinterpretation of that is what led to my current thing with my sister, so it does end, after all that family-shmamily stuff, up as a normal relationship on each…

Well, she's only a half sister, so it's only half a problem.