I did watch Balls Out. At your apartment. Don't you remember?

Also, Neal, removing the shocker from its old speaker icon seems to me to be upping the shocker half of the equation without bringing along the audio.

i liked The Heartbreak Kid. that was the last truly good movie theater comedy experience for me.

as for getting your own pic, that's not something Neal or i can do. you have to go to gravatar.com and set up an account. it's actually pretty easy and the bonus is that your picture follows you around on multiple different websites as long as you use the same email address when you leave comments.

and i can't believe you liked Be Kind Rewind! i thought the idea was great but i didn't actually laugh once during that movie.

I do realize that we'll eventually get some Apatow backlash, and I look forward to it as much as the next guy, but it might be a while yet. 'Cause the only other comedies that seem to come out with any consistency are those awful "_______ Movie" parody conglomerations. I can't even think of the last comedy that I successfully saw in a theatre. I guess Be Kind Rewind was pretty funny. That was only a year ago.

Great idea on the The Dirt, Nick. Do you have a copy you can send me? I'm gonna mail you A Scanner Darkly tomorrow.

and no one has even noticed/mentioned the new AS default avatar - I spent so much time on that!

Pete, i agree that Apatow is really fucking shit up for comedies. he's raising the bar ridiculously high in some ways (complete nerd acceptance) while lowering the actual quality of what's acceptably funny in a slacker comedy (if there are nerds and social outsiders, it's gotta be good... right?... RIGHT?). the good news is that there will be some Apatow backlash and we'll probably get some awesome stuff then. but in the meantime, we have to put up with his assembly line slacker not-so-funnies. i mean, really, what did he direct that was good other than 40 Year Old Virgin? and what did he produce that was good other than Superbad?

Pete, i forget - did you watch Balls Out yet?

i would like to nominate Motley Crue's The Dirt for the book club. that book will absolutely blow your mind. i kid you not.

I agree that Knocked Up and Pineapple Express were cold trash. Role Models nearly redeemed the Apatow-esque comedy, but in the end it was Sean William Scott and the nutty 7 year old that made the movie. That kid was also in an episode of Human Giant and he was Hi-larious.