Was looking for the Dr. Octagon reference here, was not disappointed, of course. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one obsessed with this skit.

I listened to her interview on 1A this week. It’s telling that the anecdote at the beginning of the book, in which Kohn flagellates herself for bullying a fellow 10 year-old summer camper, has a weird punchline. Kohn tracks down this (now grown) woman to apologize (in person, I think), whereupon her former target…

I think Bourdain has funny moments, and there’s nothing about him that’s really feminist, but I think this has mostly to do with East Coast/West Coast shit. He’s Biggie, she’s Tupac, the game’s Americanized French cuisine. He’s just got no time for an egg spoon.

At the time (1992), they were reviled in Chicago for alienating their fans by going to a major (Geffen); once Saturation came out, practically everyone I knew despised that record, not least because they thought it sounded like KISS, and they’re not exactly wrong, but anyway. Good as Exit the Dragon was, I’ve never…

Right. And thing is, being that ND is filled with kids from PA, OH, NJ, NY, Billy Joel, at that time, was undoubtedly the person that most of the campus wanted to see. Honestly could not fucking escape Billy Joel for four fucking years, duly banned from campus though he was.

Tragically, that was before my time at ND (to be clear, we are talking about the one with the Golden Dome and the football team), and he was still banned from campus, through the early 90s.

Possibly. But I think Comey’s voice is just going to be another added to the chorus. For those who despise Comey, it’s more ammunition. For those who respect him, more ammo.

Yes, absolutely. Regardless of what else is going on, they have to have spines of steel withstand the onslaught and shield the kids.

Cool. Obviously way ahead of the mainstream on that one. And way cool kinja name.

I don’t think so, I’m just reacting to the praise heaped on the movie in its day. I’m a little perturbed by the orgiastic reception it got at the time from practically everybody as being this great satire about the meaning of life in suburbia. I don’t think the movie could carry the weight all that effectively, and…

Absolutely dead on about American Beauty. Love Alan Ball’s writing and Mendes’s direction, but whether we’re supposed to have any sympathy for Lester Burnham is up in the air, for sure. I never have.