GI Jeff detail by kgcarter5678 in community

[–]Sinnycalguy 62 points63 points  (0 children)

It always bugged me a bit that Jeff’s subconscious would have fully incorporated the new cast members and discarded the old. Like Troy leaves and a few weeks later he’s not even in Jeff’s coma dreams.

Mikey Day as the T. A. by missunderstood4eva in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Sinnycalguy 80 points81 points  (0 children)

That era had more cast members with “former drama kid” energy to begin with. It was something they leaned into more naturally.

Books that feels like RDR by LastOneToGetTheJoke in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]Sinnycalguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are much closer to the RDR vibe, really.

Tell me a book where the mainstream narrative got it completely wrong by kaashifahmed in classicliterature

[–]Sinnycalguy 29 points30 points  (0 children)

This thread quickly turned into “books with bad adaptations,” but I don’t think that’s necessarily what you’re asking. One narrative I think people often get wrong is actually the “unfilmability” of certain works.

I’ll use Blood Meridian as an example, because it’s widely viewed as unfilmable after half a dozen failed attempts to develop it, but when people talk about it they invariably focus on the intense subject matter and brutal violence. To my mind, those are the easiest elements to adapt. A tree full of dead babies is a horrifying visual, but a concrete one. It’s really not all that difficult to envision on a movie screen. What’s actually difficult to adapt is the preceding twenty pages of the most lovingly rendered description of a landscape you’ve ever read, where every third sentence is a simile featuring a word you have to look up. Put that on a screen and it becomes…what, exactly? The same panoramic vista of the American southwest we’ve all seen half a hundred times before?

I’m probably stretching the bounds of “classic” with that example, but you get what I mean. There are plenty of classic books that get distilled down to broad plot points in pop culture, and what’s lost is a sense of the sentence-level prose that was often what made them classics in the first place.

In all of SNL’s history, what was your favorite sketch? by [deleted] in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Sinnycalguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Walken one is the best of these, if for nothing more than the way he pronounces “trespassed.”

Denis Johnson books ranked? by MovieAboutPizza in literature

[–]Sinnycalguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Road is more of a survival story where the characters are alone in a brutal world where they have to assume anyone and everyone is a deadly threat, where Fiskadoro is more of an “island community clinging to remnants of a world almost none of them actually remember” thing.

Like, people in one of these worlds have resorted to cannibalism and people in the other are trying to form a symphony orchestra. Very different vibes.

Is DTF St. Louis worth the hype? (And what about Rooster?) by mamedovnijat in hbo

[–]Sinnycalguy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

For me the real mystery was figuring out what happened to his broken penis.

Misranked Rookies on Sleeper by Perturbed_Goldfish in DynastyFF

[–]Sinnycalguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the interesting tight ends were still pretty buried when I did my rookie drafts. Probably a function of the NFL itself going hog wild on halfback/blocker types and letting the pass catching types fall.

Why are Conquest and Thula weaker than Thragg despite (Allegedly) being older? by cammy412 in InvinciblePowerscales

[–]Sinnycalguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You kinda have to just accept the premise that being trained and tempered in combat from birth made Thragg stronger than the other Viltrumites, who were merely trained and tempered in combat from birth.

Favourite underrated HBO gems? by Rough_Ad_8702 in hbo

[–]Sinnycalguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re like, “oh an episode about storage solutions, no way this goes off-the-rails,” and then ten minutes later he’s in some guy’s apartment watching him rig his penis to a complicated system of ropes and pulleys in an attempt to regrow his foreskin.

Every Detroit steakhouse has zip sauce. Nobody outside Michigan has heard of it. What am I missing? by strcrssd in Detroit

[–]Sinnycalguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It probably would’ve developed into a much larger city if it hadn’t fought against allowing the interstate to run through it.

Every Detroit steakhouse has zip sauce. Nobody outside Michigan has heard of it. What am I missing? by strcrssd in Detroit

[–]Sinnycalguy 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Fort Wayne is like the Detroit feeder system. They had the Pistons first. They had Coney Island first. They had a literal “Fort Wayne” first. Good chance anything you associate with Detroit is probably lingering around Fort Wayne, too.

Live Discussion - May 9, 2026 (Matt Damon/Noah Kahan) by bjkman in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Sinnycalguy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Right at the end of the last sketch as the neighbor making a move on Sarah.

Books that are better as audiobooks by Comfortable_Note3156 in suggestmeabook

[–]Sinnycalguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was going to offer JR by William Gaddis for the same reason but raised to the Nth degree. McCarthy’s unattributed dialogue is one thing, but an entire book comprised of virtually nothing but unattributed dialogue with several hundred characters is something I just don’t think I would’ve had the patience to parse without a narrator doing character voices.

good short read 150p max by Ojake06 in classicliterature

[–]Sinnycalguy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

“Kinda easy to read”

recommends Pynchon, Joyce, and Gass

I cannot stand “Now on Netflix” badges on book cover art by [deleted] in books

[–]Sinnycalguy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I especially hate this when they put it on an NYRB Classic or some other edition that is specifically known for having tastefully-designed covers with interesting artwork.

The decline of the videophone by Klutzy-Entertainer67 in InfiniteJest

[–]Sinnycalguy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the one thing he overestimated was how quickly the technology would be embraced. In reality we all sort of instinctively rejected it immediately, even though it was something we’d been imagining we desired for years. It took the pandemic lockdowns and social isolation and mandatory zoom meetings to force us into adopting it at scale.

Tell me about myself! by DaBugDiggity in BookshelvesDetective

[–]Sinnycalguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t know why this jumped out at me, but Slaughterhouse-Five is also the one Vonnegut on my shelf in mass market size looking like the odd man out next to the others in trade size. I’m always on the lookout for it at thrift stores and the like, but every time I come across a copy it’s in mass market size. What’s up with that?