Is your allegiance to the republicTODEMOCRACY?!!!

Rooster hits the washboard, and people just got to smile
Blinky thumps the gut bass, Han Solo's going wild

A good example would be the character Arkady Ivanovich from Crime and Punishment.

Here's some money. Go see a Star War.

Ditto "putting the pieces in place" or some such.

It's really great, and also brings back great memories for me as I was at the concert where she first unveiled her material with The Thing. That night a huge storm hit the Stockholm area, causing power outages all over town, including the small bar where the concert was. So what we all ended up with was an incredibly…

Well, you'll just have to forgive them for not finding this man's buffoonery amusing!

It would have been the salvation of mankind.

Oh. When I saw this on the main page my first thought was that they had brought Leonard Pierce back.

It's not hard to miss. In fact I don't think Rowling even mentions it in the book, just that Slughorn returns with a bunch of grown-ups. That some of them were Slytherins is something she's only stated in interviews when she's been asked why Slytherins are all dicks.

Don't know anything about this book, but I just want to say that Quatuor pour la fin du temps is truly one of the greatest pieces of music I know. If you haven't heard it yet, you need to drop whatever you're doing and listen to it right now.

"Just" that?

I can't believe no one has done this yet. Or maybe someone did and I didn't notice. Anyway, here goes.

Actually there are only 30 Goldberg Variations. Numbers 1 and 32 are the aria, played twice, at the beginning and end.

I love that Le Clézio's name is the one thing that's spelled correctly.

@avclub-e2e5a2b50da03a9ddf60898ebb20ebf4:disqus Don't summon it!

So, does this mean Donna has finally had enough of HIMYM? Or is everyone just assuming she'll be in a Breaking Bad-induced coma on Monday?

@avclub-a70b90ac4dd557918e5a1c5cb19399ec:disqus Thanks for the reminder, I had totally forgotten about that. I'm happy to hear it, as it makes Jesse's putting the pieces together a lot less weird and jarring.

DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN BUDDHA

@avclub-5dedb42b34e50082065a783265ce28a8:disqus I probably should have expressed myself more clearly. What I meant to say is that, most of the time, seeing a film that you think is bad (or good!) yields a purely intellectual response: "this isn't clicking for me", "I don't like this" etc. Sometimes it may even elicit…