One first last, as I emerge from a year's hibernation to post my eight thousandth comment on what may well be the Final Comment Section.

I came here primarily to ensure this didn't go unsaid.

Cancer strings.

Imagine the joy of finding out you've been nominated for narration, and then the immediate deflation when you realize you're up against Keith David.

If you did La Banquise you did it right and you can live your life without feeling like you missed an opportunity.

It was the most recent one, I believe. In fairness, I was probably subconsciously looking for a reason to bail and not have One More Goddamned Thing in my queue.

That whole kerfuffle made me think it was time to finally check out Chapo Trap House and see what the what was. (I see a lot of ambient appreciation for it among a certain twitter clique.)

I can't — and literally don't — believe it wasn't planned that way, and that some nefarious external influence caused them to tack on three filler tracks.

On twitter, I did my one and only tweetstorm about this album, a year or so ago, and it's here: https://twitter.com/illbie/…

I'm thinking that it must be gas

Shepard Commander

That's the frustrating thing, whenever he actually lodges criticisms of what the show is doing — as opposed to what he wants it to be doing — I nearly always find myself in agreement.

Tropic Thunder is the new Silence of the Lambs.

It seemed to me like mounts were included in DA:I purely as a courtesy to people who really like mounts.

The Tumblr Westphail Universe

I spent thousands of dollars to learn thousands of things in university and I'll be damned if I can tell you one of them.

Adopt this animal or it's gonna get murdered.

Nostalgia for a time that never was.

I don't appreciate your anti-semantic attitude.

[I feel bad now for the unintended implication that our Sam is somehow comparable to Jeff Zucker. Sam is a peach, while Zucker is living evidence against the existence of a just god. Just wanted to clear that up.]