Ooh, good call on Berlin. By the time we hit "The Kids" I'd say one or both of the protagonists is legitimately insane.

I object to the notion of "Stan" being a high-end version of Jack Kittel's "Psycho." In my book songs don't come much higher end than "Psycho."

That poor, haunted Belarusian soldier kid in Come and See. By the end he's barely sensate and I feel like I'm not far behind him.

Yeah, that's a good 'un.

Aw, I saw that one with my grandma. She never went out to movies but for some reason she really wanted to take my brother and me to see Prancer. I remember nothing about it, but I'll always hold that movie in affectionate regard.

As I mention below, if my parents had one of those "celebrity exception" pacts, I'm pretty sure Mr. Elliott would be at the top of my mom's list.

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As we learned in Ghost Rider, Nicolas Cage pisses fire. So even if he did, you'd still be screwed.

I don't necessarily agree, but that's a thoughtful, well-considered argument that makes me understand and appreciate your position. Are you sure you meant to post it on the internet?

Hey guys, we still in for our Fifth Business cosplay this weekend?

Chester Brown is long overdue for a Nobel.

Ondaatje should be given every award for time immemorial just for Coming Through Slaughter.

One of my friends just landed a piece in the Best Essays of 2013 anthology, which also
includes a piece by Alice Munro. So now my friend is published alongside a Nobel Laureate. As if I wasn’t jealous enough of her.

I can attest that my kid does not appreciate it when I do my Sam Elliott impression for the voice of Emily Elizabeth in the Clifford books.

I don't know if I'd want him to play the role of my dad, but I don't think my mom would object.

I've watched Mask several times because it's one of my mom's favorite movies. Somewhere around the third viewing, I realized that it's one of my mom's favorite movies in no small part because my ordinarily very demure mom is totally, lustily into Sam Elliott in Mask. While this shows markedly good taste on my mom's…

I assume in the Sunnyverse they'd battle the Good Witch and get assistance from the Wicked Witch. In that case, I'd cast the Waitress and Artemis respectively.

"Sometimes he's so likable, child-like and sweet, but then he'll turn around and try to fuck everyone over and do really awful things in the process."

I was fully expecting the bullet to come sliding back out of his skull, Wolverine style.

Have at it. A local folksinger wrote an actually very good song about it in the late '70s but it's sadly not available online.