Giuseppe Zangara

Yes. It seems to have had an adverse effect on your writing. Time to edit your post! Let This Be a Lesson: Never pursue a career in academia.

SuperJerk, it isn't uncommon to misunderstand and misuse the concept of irony. People make mistakes. Alanis Morissette made a mistake. You made a mistake. Rather than own up to it, you chose to pass it off as a joke that people were too stupid to understand. Now you're claiming that you used it correctly all along and that we are too stupid to understand that. You are an embarassment. No one's buying into this garbage other than yourself, so, if you believe continuing this charade helps you save face, rest assured it isn't working.

Or perhaps Byron will pull a Sasha Frere-Jones and call it a "gripping, postmodern pop-rap salvo for the approaching second decade of the 21st century" or some such thing. Then he'll call Stephin Merritt a racist and complain that indie rock isn't black enough.

So glad I no longer after to read shit like that on a regular basis.

A friend of mine pointed this out to me too. I think my mind just kind of dismissed it because the movie is set in a time where the Towers would still be up. But most of the people (or most of the American audience) watching the film are going to make some sort of connection in the shot of the still-standing World Trade Center and a partially destroyed New York. Why was it in the film? What were they going for here? I just don't think anyone making the film thought this out anymore than "hey, won't this look neat?" And it didn't help that, as has been pointed out, the climatic sequence is a sort of nonevent compared to the almost pornographic violence throughout the movie. It's not that all this offended me, but I definitely found it weird and distracting. This also isn't to suggest they should've done some Zoolander-style removal of the WTC entirely, but that they shouldn't have picked such a moment in the film to display it so prominently. At the screening I attended, I could even hear people pointing it out as if they just noticed it for this first time, even though the towers were visible at other points in the movie.

Split a 25-ounce bottle of Weyerbacher's Merry Monks Belgian-style Golden Ale with my girlfriend. Never been huge on Belgian and Belgian-style ales, but I liked this one OK. Smooth enough and without as strong a fruity/floral bite that a lot of Belgians have.

Change your name to Duquan "Dukie" Weems. Make "fights like a bitch" your custom title.

I dislike the way many of the The Wire's fans romanticize the lifestyle, but then the show itself is partially to blame. The Barksdale storyline made "the game" seem real cool and sexy, which is certainly appealing to a backwoods Canadian who spends most of his time drinking alone and typing nonsense on a message board. Still, I'd be willing to give EHME a pass if he had an avatar of, say, Frank Sobotka instead.

Since I don't think I made it clear earlier, I actually liked Watchmen for the most part. It succeeds as an entertainment and little else; this thread proves just how easily Snyder & Co.'s house of cards falls apart under even the slightest scrutiny. And that's what happened in this thread, SuperJerk. It did not take a great amount of mental power to point out what's wrong with the film. Unfortunately, you are incapable of realizing that, just like you are unaware of the definition of irony, or how "jokes" actually work. You are not good at what you do.

I just assumed he already liked it. Well, when he finally comes around on it, I'm sure he'll cite an entry from some poorly written, practically unreadable blog in defense of it.

The old-age makeup on Carla Gugino wasn't bad because it looked like an old woman trying to pass herself off as younger; it was the actual prosthetic makeup used to make her look years older that was unconvincing. She looked like a deflated version of the Lady in the Radiator from Eraserhead. And the Nixon thing isn't ironic at all, but I'm not interested in arguing semantics.

Man, I love The Wire, but so many of its fans are absolute yo-yos.

I never paid too close attention to the lyrics of the Lil Wayne song prior to this thread. Wow, Prince is a goddamn poet in comparison.

Well, with the exception of "Frost/Nixon", I can't think of a single television or movie portrayal of Nixon that doesn't come off as cartoonish. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088074/ Terrific performance.

You're gonna have to explain what's ironic about it. The old-age makeup was pretty bad. I wanted to reach out and remove globs of it from Gugino and the actors playing Nixon and Kissinger. As for my thoughts on the film, I'm just gonna c & p what I wrote elsewhere: You know what I thought was far and away the worst thing about it? Malin Akerman. Christ on a fucking cracker did the movie come to a screeching halt every time she opened her mouth. Way too much of the film's dramatic weight was placed on her character and she was in too over her head to handle it. It didn't help that most of her scenes were with good actors; I've mentioned elsewhere my fondness for Billy Crudup and I thought Patrick Wilson acquitted himself nicely, even if his character was one of the least interesting in the film. Single best moment in the film was the opening credit sequence. Best performances were Crudup's and Jeffrey Dean Morgan's. Jackie Earle Haley was decent, though his interpretation of Rorschach was a part of the film's biggest non-Akerman problem: Zack Snyder's Watchmen was, at times, a too-literal adaptation of the comic. Dialog that read fine within the context of the graphic novel sounded awfully hokey when being said aloud, most notably Rorschach's v/o, as well as . The violence was occasionally too over the top; Oh well. As for the film overall, except for the scenes where Akerman talked, I was never really bored and would probably be more forgiving of its flaws if I saw it a second time.

Is a hit song with thinly veiled sexual innuendos supposed to be unique? Prince's "Little Red Corvette"—a song so completely and unapologetically about pussy—was a top-ten single in 1983.

Clipping coupons.

Ew, gross.

It's closer than the toilet.

Sure, the toilet is right there, but I'm already in the shower and the urine will go down the drain. No biggie. It's not as if I had to pee before getting in and thought fuck it, down the drain it goes instead. Everyone in this thread is welcome to stay at my house and pee in my shower. I don't mind.

Wow, that's maddening. And the book was in remarkable condition, considering it was a 45-year old object. I've encountered much older books, by the way—I've spent too much time in libraries not to—but that particular copy of V. stands out in my mind for obvious reasons.

I cannot satisfactorily jack off in the shower. Somewhat related: I can't have sex in the shower, either. The barrage of water is far too distracting, plus I don't like doing it (masturbating) standing up. Rare is the shower where I don't pee. Even if I pissed before getting in, my body's exposure to warm/hot water triggers the urge to urinate. Never have I defecated or vomited in the shower. Any morning loogies are usually disposed in the bathroom sink before I step in the shower. I cannot recall ever having blown my nose while showering, but it isn't impossible that I have.

You know Inc, you never did answer my question "where does that picture from your avatar come from" I was not aware you had asked! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072235/

I just pissed on this thread.