I don't think it was really a criticism of Bush, but rather a criticism of a voter like Hank who mentally needs to believe that his president is basically John Wayne.

@avclub-f0c28c550d55c407a393cd97dc40e763:disqus That would be Joe Jack.

I'd vote for "Dog Dale Afternoon."

Bobby: Why do you hate what you don't understand?
Hank: I don't hate you Bobby!
Bobby: I was talking about soccer.
Hank: Oh yeah, I hate soccer.

"Would you like an hors d'oeurve, Mr. and Mrs. Dauterive?

Mmmm-hmmm.

"There's some milk in the fridge that's about to go bad…. ::sniff:: And there it goes."

If you are even beginning to impugn the honor of Fred Rogers, then I suspect we can get a rail to ride you out of town on arrange quite quickly.

According to FBI figures (http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/ciu… ), there were 13 million total arrests in 2009. That's not individuals arrested, but total number of arrests:

I watched a few minutes of that when I first got Netflix streaming a couple of years back. I thought the idea of a modern remake of Caligari was at least worth checking out. But the actual execution seemed to make this almost the definition of inessential — even moreso than Gus van Sant's "Psycho."

I wasn't taking "permission" as a factor. The proposed inventory seemed to me to be about people writing more material under a (dead) author's name to trade off of that name, and Derleth's pseudo-Lovecraft books and stories seemed that they fit that description.

Just to clarify, I was specifically talking about books that have an apparent "H.P. Lovecraft" byline but contain virtually no Lovecraft-penned prose. The elaboration of the Cthulhu mythos as a kind of brand is a different (though related) situation.

His name wasn't trademarked as a brand, but Lovecraft certainly had some of his disciples writing stories and even novels sometimes expanding fragments of original Lovecraft work but just as often based only on Lovecraftian ideas that they nonetheless released under Lovecraft's name (August Derleth being chief among…

But there are huge Celtic influences on the languages and myths of LOTR, too. I'm not sure it's even fair to say it's Saxon-centric. And if you don't just lump all the Germanic influences in under "Saxon," then the Norse echoes are another vein of influence.

I still haven't been able to read The Salmon of Doubt (other than a couple of specific essays that a friend told me might be useful for a class I was teaching). It's just too emotionally painful, even after all this time.

So I take it you plan to make films that never reward contributors or crew with residuals or anything beyond a one-time payment?

Also, professional scholars can go to whatever library the author's papers are kept at (if the author is famous or important enough) and browse through the unpublished stuff — not that print publication isn't still very valuable to academics who can't afford to make a pilgrimage to a physical archive. But my point is…

My current pet peeve is rental editions of discs that have all the special features on the menu, but then reveal it's a psych-out, with those little messages that say "To watch this feature, buy the full retail edition!" The barebones menu of your normal rental disc is disappointment enough without cruelly raising my…

I own a copy and try to show it to anyone who hasn't seen it. I've gotten mixed results.

The Stanley Tucci/Oliver Platt comedy "The Imposters" has a subtitle gag, where a character is hiding under a bed while another character has a phone conversation above him. The character under the bed can see the subtitles and reads them to follow the conversation (and the gag is elaborated an additional step,…