Yep. I hope Goodell is gone. I loathe Keith Olbermann, but he did a piece yesterday on why Goodell (and, in typical KO fashion, a number of other people) should either resign or be fired. It was compelling.

He pops up occasionally on the classic Shield reviews. Doesn't say much, though.

I watched small bits of this last night and was wondering who the hell the host was. I saw 'Dan Piraro' at the top of this review and thought 'no way it's the same guy who draws Bizarro'. Aaaand it is. I used to read that comic 5-10 years ago. I haven't in a while, his appearance makes me apprehensive to go back to it.

I did that weeks ago and my GI tract still isn't back to 100%.

I should add: Perry's Panda Paws (regular, cherry [especially cherry!], extreme) is amazing, too.

Haha, I hope I somewhat inspired this thread. When I was a kid, I used to add all sorts of stuff to vanilla ice cream like peanut butter, cookies, etc. I loved Friendly's Snickers ice cream, too.

Ha, I'm referencing the fact that Sonia seems to detest anything sugary or fatty in all of their 'Taste Test' thingys.

Sonia actually ate some junk food? I am shocked!

I find it a very easy film to watch. Note that you're not just watching something unfold. Tarkovsky is trying to affect the state of mind of the viewer. There are parts that are purposely boring, to lull your mind and soothe it (the scene in the car, for example). There are parts that are purposely confusing at first,…

Nowhere am I presenting therapy as an alternative to leaving the woman. I'm saying that, because the man still wants to stay with the woman*, getting him into therapy will help him understand why.

That's an oversimplification of the facts. Did he just happen to marry a pornophobic woman? Did he just happen to continually put up with the abuse without leaving her? Did he just happen to need to write in to an anonymous advice column to get someone to finally make him realize that he's being verbally and…

Once again, I'm not saying that he should stay with her. What I'm saying is that Dan mentioning therapy only in the context of an insane and convoluted plan is asinine and irresponsible. And telling him to 'talk about the weather' when in a therapy session is beyond asinine when the man clearly has issues. It both…

Again, that's my point. The guy needs therapy and so does she. I'm not telling him to bear any crosses. It's the guy who is saying he wants to. Note: 'If they went through therapy, they might break up anyway, but not doing anything and just saying 'dump her' is dumb advice.'

But that's why you need therapy! The guy needs to understand why in hell he's even taking this kind of abuse. Advice should have been: go to therapy, tell your wife you're going to therapy and why, tell her she needs to go to therapy as well and if she doesn't, then dump her. This guy is just going to find someone…

What's funny about that is that the Seinfeld characters were just selfish people, yet the writers thought they were bad enough to go to jail and sent them there in the finale, which was almost universally panned for this reason, ie that the writers were a little tone-deaf about their own characters.

If you have the time, I highly recommend a second reading of IJ. It reads a little quicker, but wow. I loved it the first time but maybe loved it twice as much and noticed twice as many things the second time. One of these days I'll tackle it again.

Surprised that he reminds you of Vonnegut! I've read a few of his other collections (The Aleph, and Labyrinths) which don't seem to contain any of the same stories as AUHoI, but Vonnegut is one of the last people I would have thought of. I find Borges almost German-sounding, like Walser or Kafka (ie late 1800s/early…

I read that a few months ago and loved it. Reading about the main guy getting his ass kicked constantly was hilarious. The book read sort of like a far less serious/far more humorous Philip K. Dick story.

Hammering home a 'single, narrow socio-[x]' point is basically any of BEE's books in a nutshell, imo. He's way too shallow/boring for me.

Good to hear that about 2666. I've been meaning to read it for a while and hopefully this winter, I'll tackle it. I've read IJ several times and love it; nice to read someone that thinks they could stand together.