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I dunno about The Moth, but:

This is the first time I've ever seen them link to iTunes instead of the application the article is already being read in. The reason for this might be because it's a silly and inconvenient way of linking, and they shouldn't do it again.

generally I read this article for podcasts to download, not to read summaries of things I don't ever plan to listen to.

iTunes Links
Hey, since every one of these podcasts has a way to listen and download through a browser (you know, the thing I was already reading this article in), can you please stop linking to pages that start trying to open iTunes automatically?

Southland Tales is a great movie
Sorry, it's just that your opinion was completely incorrect. Go on.

Attention Todd VanDerWerff
Anyone who thinks that the Six Feet Under Finale (aka The Best Ten Minutes Television Has Ever Produced) shouldn't have happened should not be allowed to write critically about any form of media. I'm sorry to have to break it to you this way.

No, it is unlikely that you are the only criminally wrong and possibly deaf person in the world.

Sunset Tree is probably the best album, but my favorite on a song by song basis, and on that is often overlooked, is Heretic Pride. Every song on that one is just so good.

This was a very funny article
I don't watch this show, but for some reason clicked and then laughed a lot at the writing, which was funny. Ok. Well, guess that's it. Bye now.

Anyone who says they don't like Evelyn Evelyn never saw the shows. Half-theater, half-concert, just one of the best live experiences I've ever had.

Very disappointed
Amanda Palmer is capable of great records. Who Killed Amanda Palmer was one of the best of 2008. And it's exciting that she's on her own label and able to release what she wants.

It already broke
I guess no one here heard that the new ending has been performed once and promptly failed leaving the actor hanging over the audience as everyone was asked to leave? Or was that just so unsurprising that it wasn't worth mentioning?

@Franko not to state the obvious here, but if your opinion about a musical is based on the cast album only, then you don't have an opinion about the musical.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson was fantastic, but it was never going to make it on Broadway. It was an off-broadway show in every way, and it was way too smart and confrontational to survive the old people and tourists Broadway market.

So: what you're saying is that a comedian making funny videos about asking for a million dollars where the whole joke is that he has absolutely no reason to deserve it, deserves the money less than a poor person? What a fascinating and insightful point…

Very rarely, a few times in a lifetime, you read a comment on an internet article and when you're done nothing can ever be the same. Walls have been pulled down, barriers broken, a dimension of feeling, of existence itself, has opened in you that was not there before. This comment's parody of a Nicole Krauss blurb is

"Holy cats is there a lot of Lisa Edelstein skin on display here. "
Welp, you convinced me to watch it.

Cloud Atlas is his worst book
Not to say it's bad. But I don't understand the attention it gets when novels like Ghostwritten and Black Swan Green are much more graceful and haunting.

I can generally live with some purple if the ideas underneath are interesting. For instance, I just read The Death of Frank Sinatra by Michael Ventura, which was one of the most overwritten books I've read in a long time. Not a single page went by without some embarrassingly florid bit of bad writing. But underneath

I hated Perdido Street Station
I had heard all these amazing things about it, and then I had to give up after suffering through a couple hundred pages of awful writing. I kinda feel like everyone else read a different book, because I can't imagine anyone liking the crap I read.