I feel Bismarck is kind of a bad example here, because, while probably the most important statesman of the 19th century, that guy was a grade-A opportunist. Yeah, he was instrumental in uniting Germany, but nationalism was a current running through all of Europe. Italy united around the same time as well, and…

I feel Bismarck is kind of a bad example here, because, while probably the most important statesman of the 19th century, that guy was a grade-A opportunist. Yeah, he was instrumental in uniting Germany, but nationalism was a current running through all of Europe. Italy united around the same time as well, and…

I just finished listening to it right now (finally got rdio yesterday — does anyone have suggestions who or what I should follow for rap music?). El-P's rapping did get better conceptually compared to the Funcrusher days, but his lines are stitched together like nobody's business. On average (!) every second line is…

I just finished listening to it right now (finally got rdio yesterday — does anyone have suggestions who or what I should follow for rap music?). El-P's rapping did get better conceptually compared to the Funcrusher days, but his lines are stitched together like nobody's business. On average (!) every second line is…

I gotta admit, Shouwa Jidai is actually kinda decent wordplay.

I gotta admit, Shouwa Jidai is actually kinda decent wordplay.

It can't be helped.

Oh hell no. This http://upload.wikimedia.org… is the C64 color palette. Resolution's way too high, too, and doesn't use the weird double-wide pixels that the C64 had.

Morm you till I jorm you.

The Don is a certified banger. Three minutes of pure neck breakage. If old was always this fresh, we wouldn't ever need new.

I may be shortsighted, but I'm having a hard time imagining them as proper superstars, probably for the same reason I like them: They don't care about making music to dance to. I don't see them cracking the all-important white girl demographic this way. Rocky in particular is gonna have some real evolving to do. I…

Yup. Looks like "Sid Meier's Pirates! The Musical!"

@avclub-eaa88660d97aa2a15400335bcf9d93ac:disqus The way I understand it is that films and TV can show Nazi symbols because art. Video games, according to the law, are toys.

Ooh! That's in the one Super Special I still own, #128. (It's originally from #301, because I'm the kind of person who googles things like that)

People criticize his 30 Rock reviews because he "cling[s] to the version of the show [he] like[s] best, or the direction of the show [he]’d prefer, rather than engaging with what’s actually on the screen."

Cue Kanye West rapping about eating film-grade gelatin gummi bears.

I immediately thought of Men Behind the Sun as well. For some reason I thought that was one of the most famous cases of (probable) animal cruelty. Guess I overestimated how many people watched that. Anyway, it's certainly the scene I can remember most vividly from this equally vile and forgettable movie.

Nothing beats a Blind Guardian shirt, because nothing goes better with black jeans, hiking boots, an army surplus backpack, and standing in the bookshop's SF/Fanatsy aisle.

Come on, we already know Stallone can design the world's most confusing pen.

I love Blue Chips, the title track. It sounds like listening to a reggae song written for a crime thriller underwater and for some reason there's clown fish in the bathtub.