"…subtle use of language and understated drama"? In the Foundation trilogy? Where? I love the trilogy and many of Asimov's other works - but let's face it, he wasn't a literary writer and his dialogue veered wildly between wooden, campy, and sheer melodrama. His greatest strengths were his grand ideas, ability to…

I say this with all love and affection and as a sincere compliment:

The Seymour "gag" enraged me as well. So pointless, and it brought all the soul-crushing sadness of "Jurassic Bark" back so suddenly that I had to be restrained from crawling into the oven with a sack of sleeping pills.

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This and last season seems like they could have been summed up neatly in 2 2-hour movies. Man, FX is really milking SOA for every advertising penny they can wring out.

Anyone know the legality of open-carry guitar laws in the great state of Texas?

As a Texan transplanted into New Jersey, I'm here to tell ya, there are a fuck ton of rednecks and wannabe shitkickers in the Garden State.

To Venus & Back is okay. I don't find it nearly as interesting as her earlier output. I listened to TV&B four or five times in its entirety, wanting to love it like I did her prior work, before shelving it. It just didn't grab me.

I love this period of Tori Amos, before "To Venus & Back," which might as well have been a Y Kant Tori Read album. Under The Pink and Little Earthquakes were in constant deployment in my tape and CD collection back then. There's something really special about the sparse, weird arrangements and songs of this…