I already answered, but here's another one: Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. I realize that the point of both shows is that these are horrible people who have no real problems, so they inflate tiny little issues into huge, agita-causing crises, but I can't abide either of them.

I like Wallace's nonfiction, but trying to read his fiction makes me angry, because I feel like he was deliberately playing some kind of game with his readers, daring them to figure out what he was trying to say and knowing they'd feel stupid if they couldn't. There was a definite level of intellectual condescension…

Yeah, I'm going to have to second Todd and say podcasts. I was real heavy into them back in 2007 or so, when I first got an iPod, and then fell out of it for a long time. The Flop House and Mental Illness Happy Hour brought me back, but that's about my limit, I just can't get seem to get into any of the rest, and even…

Not so much "wildly misremembered" as "completely forgot that Kevin Spacey says he cut off her head and took it with him."

I love when he runs back for the rebate card.

I read that she was diagnosed with MS some years back, I don't know how much that's supposed to affect mental faculties, but I sort of hope that's what it is, because anybody who seriously, without organic brain dysfunction involved, believes this shit scares and depresses me.

Not at all, I just continue to marvel at the laziness of this column.

It's kind of sweet that she thinks there's a high demand for a sequel. Nabin should do My Big Fat Greek Wedding for Forgotbusters over at the Dissolve.

Ever since hearing it on the soundtrack of Basquiat (which I only just watched for the first time last week), I've been obsessed with Them's cover of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."

I've been trying to help plan a surprise 40th birthday party for my best friend, and as of last night, only a little more than a week away from the party, I'm pretty sure she's on to us. :(

You know that Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge ended like two weeks ago, right?

That was definitely the highlight. I was genuinely disappointed that he only showed up again very briefly towards the end.

Meg White is married to Patti Smith's son. Having Patti Smith as your mother-in-law: awesome or intimidating? Maybe awestimidating?

I just love that the director of Hoop Dreams did this, since Siskel and Ebert were such huge champions of that when it was released. Can't wait to see this, even if I know it's very likely to make me cry.

Though doubtful, an appearance by Rob Schneider isn't impossible, the widow Ebert mentioned in a blog post that he had written Roger a lovely, compassionate letter upon hearing about his illness.

Right, because he can't afford to dip into his own ample savings to pay for his own luxury fucking vacations. Christ, what an asshole.

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Since this "dying person (or someone who believes they're dying) uses his remaining days on earth to finally reconcile with his estranged loved ones and living the life they've always wanted" trope is so widely used in mawkish garbage like this, I always wonder how often it happens in real life. I follow the blog of a…

If it's Disney, it's more than likely they're setting up to do a tie-in clothing line, like Hannah Montana. Not that I've seen any actual 12 year-old girls dressing like the characters on these shows, but still.

I feel the same way about Hocus Pocus, genuinely baffled that it's remembered fondly, let alone remembered at all.