the trouble is that everything has been so vague that there’s really nothing to latch onto.

Yeah, I love that Dickens doesn't get to be in the fancy writer's club because he was actually fucking popular. It's crazy. Stephen King has written some really good books. The Stand is just incredible writing, even if it's "popular". Writing doesn't have to be boring, long winded, and send you to the dictionary every…

People should read more Dickens. He’s just fun to read.

LOL slightly off-topic, but relevant: one year in HS our teacher assigned Julius Caesar, Lord of the Flies, A Separate Peace, The Return of The Native, and a fifth I can’t remember, but pretty certain someone was killed as well. By the end we were convinced she was a serial killer.

“bursting into rooms with an energy and precision that wouldn’t be matched until Cosmo Kramer first made the sitcom scene a decade later.”

I think A Separate Piece was the most destructive thing I ever read in school.

If by “home stretch” you mean “40 weeks from now.”

Quicksand is so much better then alot of his most known song. 

TX enters the chat

You know, boring old people were just boring young people once.

There’s one moment with her in the first Transformers movie that sticks out to me; fights between the robots have broken out in New York City, and Bumblebee’s legs are broken but he can still fire a gun. While Sam and Optimus scramble for the Cube, Mikaela straps Bumblebee to a tow truck and volunteers to lug him…

It’s sad that my experience with big stupid trucks (being from rural Indiana where big stupid trucks are required) means I expected this truck to be a lot bigger and stupider. 

<Drinks copiously in agreement.  Was drinking copiously before but now it is super extra copiously.>

*ahem* Christopher Lee.

People shit talk her, but I've always liked Ann Hathaway. She's talented, gorgeous, and from this at least, seems to be a decent person.

Scolari plays Dunham’s father on Girls.

Slight spoilers below for a very old movie, I guess:

Aerosmith really makes the whole thing

...The Waterboy and Doctor Doolittle and Rush Hour and Godzilla and Patch Adams, all of which were top-10 movies...

There is a strong case here for Truffaut’s comment “For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don’t think I’ve really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war.” That said, I thing that Spielberg did the best job anyone has ever done at making an anti-war film, and the opening of SPR…