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• Boobies, pee-pees, codependence, and grounding the shenanigans with heart

  The characters are there, to some extent, but I actually disagree that they were pretty fully-formed by this point.  Some of the more interesting refinements took a lot longer to show up, and their absence makes early Friends episodes much ...

  May 22, 2013 - 12:11 PM

• The Pogues' Shane MacGowan seeking dental help so that he can star in "Hollywood film"

  There is nothing about this story that isn't awesome.

  May 21, 2013 - 12:43 PM

• What do we mean when we call music pretentious?

  I just want to point out -- and probably join the ranks of others who have said the same -- that this is one of my all-time favorite headline/photo combinations.

  May 21, 2013 - 12:07 PM

• A quiet scene from The Matrix demonstrates how to make exposition compelling

  Sometimes I think about the movies that were released in 1999 and my mind utterly melts. Fight Club, the Matrix, Toy Story 2 and, er, a new Star Wars film (let's just leave it at that) all came out ...

  May 20, 2013 - 3:44 PM

• A quiet scene from The Matrix demonstrates how to make exposition compelling

  Agreed.  I only used Wittgenstein because the concept of language as a picture of reality seemed the most obvious parallel.  But Wittengestein also allowed that if you can't say it, you can't write it, and you certainly can ...

  May 20, 2013 - 2:45 PM

• A quiet scene from The Matrix demonstrates how to make exposition compelling

  Inevitably pretentious comment: The bit about "nobody can tell you what the Matrix is" actually is what grabbed me from the trailers, and it has a long philosophical pedigree. There are lots of theories of language, metaphysics, and epistemology in ...

  May 20, 2013 - 1:07 PM