PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!

It's not even like they can reallu say that bullets were able to stop him faster than tranquilizers would have since he apparently kept on trucking after the first shots were fired. Cops are stupid.

This Scarlett Johansson thing is about 10,000 times better than it has any right to be.

Also, what's the difference (is there one?) between New Wave and power-pop? Do Elvis Costello and Blondie count as the former or the latter? Inquiring minds want to know.

The only album I own that I think could be classified power-pop is Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers, which I like quite a bit. Oh, and the first Weezer album, which I've never really been able to get into. One of my friends really likes Fountains of Wayne. I fail to see their appeal. Edit: "Jessie's Girl" is the shit.

Perhaps Pocky and "Longwang" could be having some kind of secret affair?

irony

I actually can't get off to porn that doesn't include at least four (4) ass-to-mouth transitions. Anything less and I'm left utterly unsatisfied.

People who can only appreciate art if it "speaks to them" in the most basic and literal way possible are simple-minded plebeians. That's a fact.

This is the best thread.

Hahaha are you serious about this? "Nerdcore" rap is the worst shit ever.

If you think long, drawn out personal arguments are pointless and detrimental to the thread why are you actively participating in one? Be part of the solution, not part of the problem!

I'm not sure if Punch-Drunk Love would have worked as well with someone else playing that role since the whole thing was kind of based around subverting/interrogating Sandler's whole over-aggressive manchild persona.

Agreed. Barone, though he's pretty firmly on the right, is pretty much the most objective and most insightful these days. On the left, I like Blumenthal and Mellman, personally. Do high-brow organs like The New York Review of Books count as established media institutions? That's pretty much the only even vaguely mainstream publication I can think of that's consistently interesting/insightful. The New Yorker has become terribly predictable, The Atlantic currently boasts Andrew Sullivan on its masthead (never a good look), and Harper's has been almost completely keelhauled by The Nation-esque knee-jerk leftism. On the right it seems like almost everything has simply devolved into vapid partisan hackery. The state of public discourse in this country is pretty depressing.

Actually I'm pretty sure it's a requirement for a job at any established media institution. Actual insight is an increasingly scarce commodity.

I've never read him in print so I can't comment on that, but whenever he's on Olbermann he comes across as totally vapid and self-satisfied.

The problem is he goes in the complete opposite direction and just gets super-boring Washington Press Establishment types like Dana Milbank who don't have a single interesting thing to say. Now, I'm no believer in the old "two sides to every story" canard that passes for "balance" on most cable news shows, but I do think that if you're going to claim to be running some kind of high-minded, Murrow-esque enterprise like Olbermann does then you should at least allow for the free exchange of ideas.

Seriously. The last few weeks has been total cock-tease city. 65 one day and 35 the next? Fuck you, Upper Midwest.

The Nuggets actually aren't that bad defensively. It only looks like they are because they play at the fastest pace in the league and thus end up giving up a ton of points every game. If you break it down and look at their opponents' points-per-possession instead of points-per-game they're actually in like the top 10 or so in the league. They're also one of the best teams in the league at forcing turnovers. They're by no means a great defensive team (they gamble a lot and for some reason seem to have major problems playing D for a full 48), but they're also not as horrible as a lot of dumbass TV "experts" make them out to be.

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I really don't think that Kwame Kilpatrick being a worthless piece of shit is going to have much of an impact on the election. The only people in the state who could conceivably be swayed by that whole farce are rich white people from Oakland County and they by and large vote Republican anyway. The rest of the state doesn't really care enough about Detroit to let what goes on there affect its political decisions. If Michigan does go for McCain (which it very well could) it's more likely to be because of what many see as Jennifer Granholm's less-than-stellar response to the state's various crippling economic woes.

From the same time period: Back in '97 this thing elicited all sorts of strange, confusing feelings in my 10 year old self.

Having recently re-read it for a class, I've come to the conclusion that Lolita is pretty much the best novel ever written in the English language.

While searching for Juelz Santana videos on YouTube last night I discovered the existence of Duke Da God's Harlem Classics, a recently released compilation of unreleased DipSet tracks. If you've ever wondered what Cam'ron would sound like rapping over a pitch-shifted sample of Billy Joel's seminal classic "Movin' Out" this is the album for you.

Boylan's problem isn't that he's too likable, it's that he doesn't have a fucking clue when it comes to things like actually coaching a basketball team. For proof of this look at Tyrus Thomas's game logs. No player's minutes should fluctuate that wildly. Either the kid's good enough to play 25+ minutes a night or he's not. Make up your mind.

In game one Josh Smith will throw down a jam so thunderous it shatters Pierce's hip. Problem solved.