I will always be loyal to the band I listened to to drown my sorrows after getting rejected from top tier liberal arts colleges.

(I'm not sure who would play me, but Jilian Bell and I do have very similar hair.)

As a fellow Lucy, I would definitely appreciate you for that (though maybe not sleep with you…) In middle school my friends ("friends"?) would say "Lucy, you ain't got no 'splaining to do…" when I talked too much. I also got people singing "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" in my general direction.

It's weird to suddenly discover the gender (well, the most likely gender…I'm not opposed to actors in drag) of everyone in the comments section.

Wow, congrats on finishing a novel.
I also write fiction and it makes total sense to me that you'd need ten years to finish a novel like this. Just out of curiosity, when your book is being made into a movie, what role do you play? Do you advise the person who writes the screenplay or something? Just wondering how it…

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Agreed, this whole episode was excellent especially the ending. But another scene that stuck with me was Penelope singing Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls. Penelope's so manipulative and controlling, but she can also sincerely enjoy things that Chip can't (like cheesy karaoke). Imo that's why he's still so attracted to her.

This sounds interesting, I will check it out.

Yes, the upper middle class, young white people in New York get all the attention.

When Sufjan Stevens sings them. Otherwise, yeah.

Agree completely! The Grammies is a pop awards show – it's about which album has the most mainstream pop appeal, not which album is the best. And honestly, 1989 is a fairly solid pop album – they could have done a lot worse.

*Feels bad for Meagan Trainor's future husband*
Then again, he has been warned.
(seriously, though, that song is just giving misogynists proof that women are crazy bitches)

I've only heard it used to describe a stereotype some white people have of black people (like to describe how some whites might see Obama). I think I would definitely need the context of the LA times reference to make any kind of judgement. I don't think Stephen King is intentionally racist, and I don't know if his…

I actually agree – I'm sorry if it came off that way. I don't think King was trying to be racist – I don't think he's a racist person or that his intention was to write a racist character – but I think it does appear that way, mainly because not many of Stephen King's characters are very developed. As a result, King…

I actually liked The Green Mile movie better than the book. I liked the beginning of the book quite a bit (interesting premise, well written) but the last 150 pages are almost solely comprised of plot, and the Christ metaphors started to get really cheesy. The movie condensed the story while maintaining the characters…

Interesting, seems like a shortened version of a section from the novel. Maybe that part of the book evolved out of a short story?

Yeah, mental illness is a big theme…most of the mentally ill main characters are surrounded by more obviously mentally ill minor characters (Pip and Andreas' mothers being the best examples). In the case of both Andreas and Pip, the mother/child roles are reversed…both want to protect their mothers almost like they…

If you haven't, you should read Consider the Lobster, his collection of essays – they are hilarious and a few are very relevant to all the crazy political stuff going on right now (there's a really funny piece about campaigning with John McCain).

I agree, it's a funny novel, and surprisingly personal and down to Earth. The critics/popular culture in general portrays it as a book that sets out a grand theory about the meaning of life, and while it is philosophical it focuses on a few key themes (addiction, entertainment) which it approaches from a pretty…

Alternately, you could try having a medical condition (jk). Before I was diagnosed with celiac disease (the disease where you can't eat gluten) I was a picky eater. Now, after my efforts to fill the gluten void and not bother people with my dietary restrictions, I'll eat just about anything. I've discovered a lot of…