Grade?
Does this one get a grade, or is it too hard to evaluate?

But t
hen - nice use of enjambment!

Good riddance to Videocracy. That shit was completely lame, why have the videos picked by an arbitrary algorithm or whatever and wind up with three Fred videos a month?

Help me
My face hurt. My cone heavy.

I say Box Populi too. Maybe we could go for some song references though?

"oh my darling eminem! how i love you marshall, spittin shiny massive magnetic acrostics to fit the thrillest rhyme style ever invented (ugh yeah i'm trying not to explain his quote unquote flow in those meaningless autechre words like architectural and labyrinthine but SHIT) but yeah although em's lyrics arent…

Two years is going to be a goddamn eternity.

I keep hearing about these Martin Beck novels, are there any decent film / TV adaptations of them to give me a taste of how they are?

Well, the thing is that the Swedes set the bar really low with this one. The first movie was fine, there's no particular need to remake it. The second one is bad and I'm certain it could be improved.

Millienium miniseries
I agree that this movie was much worse than the first one (I haven't read the books) - it was a whole series of things that happened without any particular unity or sense of purpose. The third movie in the series is, ah, obtainable for the resourceful, but I've decided to wait to see it until I…

Good gravy, someone still reads Gawker?

Just got this
I can agree with the people who see this as a little miscellaneous and not quite coming together as an album (which I thought was also true of Living With the Living), but it's definitely grown on me as I've listened to it more over the past few days. "Bottled in Cork" is a definite stand-out.

No, he means lesser than themselves.

Alan Sparhawk is an awesome interviewee
I've liked this guy immensely since he said in an interview (with the AV Club, if I'm not mistaken) that they enjoyed working with Steve Albini on Secret Name because he gave the production a "warm and punchy" sound.

Evil overlording hasn't got much better, writing-wise, than it was in the late, lamented Dungeon Keeper and its sequel.

Seriously, that was exruciating. No amount of faux-awkward manchild adorability could make up for those bumpers.

The last paragraph in that Slate article makes me want to get a job at Slate.

The problem with House of Leaves was that it married pretty interesting experimentation in narrative and form with a bunch of really awful purple prose (specifically, the LA dude's frame story, which often seems like Danielewski was raiding Penthouse Letters for inspiration).

Yeah, that leaked out somehow and is incredibly good. Especially the interaction between Charlie and Santa, oh my God… But I won't spoil anything.

Uh, was Jimmy Kimmel ever funny? And Letterman should be adequate proof that whatever is in the NYC water that makes bagels and pizza so good does not extend to comedy.