The Neverending DVD Story

I’ve never seen The Wire but I know the theme song by heart. Every morning for a period of several weeks I would find my roomate curled in the fetal position on our couch with the menu screen for the show blaring on repeat. As everyone who has fallen asleep while watching a DVD knows, the infinite repetition of the main page can go from a lullaby into a loathsome loop—especially for unwitting housemates, lovers, or pets.

As if the actual experience weren’t bad enough, someone has gone and made an internet version of this apparently universal experience by creating youfellasleepwhilewatchingadvd.com, a website that allows you to endlessly watch the menu screen for Punch Drunk Love, Arrested Development, or even Terminator 2.

Animated Batman Flies Again

The animated avenger

More than 16 years since it first aired, Batman: The Animated Series is now available in a complete boxed set. The cartoon draws its storytelling inspiration from ’40s comics, while the aesthetic is a clear nod to the Tim Burton film made just three years earlier. Using voice actors like Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill the show revolutionized “kids cartoons” with its sophisticated style and depth.

More beer, Ms. Qunn?

As a tribute to the show’s characters, I dressed as Harley Quinn last Halloween (drunkenly pictured above with my friend Captain Werewolf as the dark knight himself). I promise the animated version is better.