Step one:

The spinoff is currently recovering in Tahiti. A magical place.

Whoa—I didn't know that Double Nickels was motivated by trying to keep up with Zen Arcade.

That's what I thought he was saying. I was pretty sleepy during the movie, though.

You're right, of course, and I'm doing a poor job of saying why, exactly, this plotline bothered me.

Ah, I missed that. Thanks!

I take your point, and that of Melvo, but it seems to me that Bruce was saying that he couldn't/shouldn't raise children. Which statement she met with her inability to bear children. Which aren't the same thing.

That whole storyline was…icky.

Right you are! I was editing it, but couldn't remember the right city.

Well that's just science.

Aw. My favorite part of the movie was Black Widow saying "Coming through" and "Excuse me" to pedestrians as she stunt-drove her bike across the sidewalks.

Good point. I wasn't really thinking about Germany.

Steve Erickson's Tours of the Black Clock is a wonderfully disturbing novel about this relationship. And about being Hitler's pornographer.

Here, Hitler’s sincerity is assumed to be satire, because who would actually rant against the Jews and Turks in this day and age?

What about Firefly?

So…medium-sized lies?

I'm calling it now:

Videotape included!

Fox's head of programming is actually just a May, 1987 issue of Tiger Beat.

Yep. She's heartless and withholding. The whole package!