when you Canada type it

Series of stuff is where ebooks shine to me—I have the entire Aubrey-Maturin series on ebook (started in physical copy picking up one used edition at a time, but had to do a transatlantic move and no way I’d continue with that), which saves a lot of space and, while I may revisit past favorites at some point in the…

Spoiler: @avclub-e5e75678d9346d88878b7c95b97eac68:disqus is actually D’Argo Sun-Crichton.

I’m a millennial born before 1990—I’m still attached enough to physical media that if I really like a film I’ll buy it on Blu-Ray.

There’s also the “David In Person”—an event the page boasts is in the ship’s “large theater”—where the press release says Hasselhoff “will screen the best scenes of his movies and give fans the chance to ask personal questions,” once the 20 seconds it takes to show Adam Sandler farting in his face has elapsed.

there are some holes you don't want to look down.
The A.V. Club

I believe you mean Portmannette-eau.

It’s funny that Fear of a Black Planet, in some ways, sounds almost like really propulsive classical music to me now—temporally its closer to Cage and Stockhausen than it is to today, and it sounds that way too. That doesn’t age it for me, though—it makes it timeless.

He actually did try to sue Yahoo over the name (in 2000, when it had been established for years and right before the dot com bubble).

Ooh, good point on the shift from bureaucratic to democratic—I hadn’t thought of it that way but I think the bureaucratic nature of earlier Parks is a real strength. America self-mythologizes its democracy and Parks played into that—in contrast, it needs but doesn’t really respect its bureaucracy, which is a much more…

Dipped, dipped again, &c…

’Twas snake that tempted mother Eve,
Because of snake we now believe
That though depraved,
We can be saved
From hellfire and damnation,
Because of snake’s temptation!
If snake had not seduced our lot
And primed us for salvation,
Jehova could not pardon all
The sins that we call cardinal
Involving bed and bottle!
Now onto…

I thought we numbered our presidents using prime numbers, not perfect squares!

Or every time he watches he looks at how Messala looks at Ben-Hur and recognizes those feelings within himself, allowing him to truly feel his true self under the safe cover of the television’s electric glow, a brief respite from a lifetime of repression and denial.

I have to admit I want to see the film mainly because it features a snow monkey.

Guzzles prune juice

So who fucks the three-legged dog?

Bellona?

A Face in the Crowd—while there’s some relevance to Trump (why I decided to watch it), it’s really a more universal story of the corrupting influence of power and the ease at which we see what we want to see with a great, tour de force character study for Andy Griffith (Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau bringing…

I have to mention this every time Middlesex comes up: my grandmother was born in the same village as Eugenides’s (she was pretty old when my Dad was born—in her early forties—and he was the same when I was born). No incest in my family, though—his family was likely, at one point, my family’s serfs.