Bjork is everything I hate about Japan and art rolled all into one little cartoon character of a person.

Unsolved Mysteries = nightmare fuel for years.

Can we torch the National Report offices as well?

Not a movie, but I couldn't get through American Psycho (the novel). That shit manages to be garishly overt and insidiously toxic simultaneously.

I didn't dislike the novel as a whole, that part just took me out of the story for a stretch. It comes from absolutely nowhere, and is one of the most "WTF-level" things I've read.

It lost me at the sewer gang bang.

I'll have to give it a re-read. I remember reading it and thinking "Why can't King do more of this sort of thing?" from a flow perspective.

"At his worst, King’s prose can be wildly undisciplined, overindulgent, and filled with bad jokes and awkward metaphors. The Shining is no exception"

Awesome.

I was talking more about social media and comment threads. And, despite the self-perpetuating truism that online discussion is necessarily toxic, I think we can do better if we're talking profound social issues.

As for determination, someone's track record is a good indicator. We all lose our patience and temper from time to time. I'm talking about the folks who do that consistently.

"Talk" being the operative word. Too many folks skip the whole "talk" part and instead launch into the snark and bullshit.

I don't think that the two are mutually exclusive. I DO think that there are some who like to punch it out on comment threads as a hobby, and for whom any cause is a convenient means to that end.

You're adorable. ::pinches cheek::

See, I have a real problem with equating twitter rabblers with abolitionists, suffragettes, etc. Those people faced actual threats, repercussions, and conflict (up to and including death) to stand up for their beliefs. Nowadays, any person with a gripe and a social media presence can bitch ad nauseum about whatever…

My take: there's talking, with an eye toward understanding and exploration of a topic, then there's fighting, with an eye toward asserting dominance and some kind of high ground.

Visit Gawker for an example of the "Social Justice Infantry" in action.

But how ELSE will I know what to buy!? Aside from word-of-mouth, blogs, GameFly, etc., of course, but…those things SUCK!

It will definitely be a weak-ass cop out. After all, we're talking about a show that routinely uses hordes of zombies for jump scares, and in which people die due to a crippling inability to look slightly to the left or right.

“how can you write such a great dad on the show but can’t be a good dad in real life?”