Kornacki’s awesome. I’ve been a fan since a couple of elections ago (I don’t remember the exact year), and he wasn’t just talking about counties in Pennsylvania, he was talking about neighborhoods. This guy knows his stuff.

Angel was pretty much my only ‘appointment TV show’ that year, so I understand completely. I do have to grudgingly admit, though, that it boasts one of the most tender, rip-your-heart-out emotional moments I’ve ever seen in a series: “Would you like me to lie to you now?”

Thank you!

It’s appropriate. Thanks so much!

Thank you!

I agree completely. Not that I’ll ever be on a talk show of any kind (except maybe the one in Rupert Pupkin’s basement), but I drank heavily for 30 years, and my first year of sobriety quietly passed without fanfare a week ago (after countless attempts to stop over the past 15 years or so). If some one became insistent…

Agreed. He did the cold vocal opening on his first three albums, although by Armed Forces, it was just the first word.

Addendum--it’s actually the first 13 seconds. My apologies.

The opening of Elvis Costello’s first album, My Aim is True. ‘Welcome to the Working Week.’ The lone vocal that speeds up and crescendos (an early Costello trademark, to be sure) grabs you by the teenage angst and doesn’t let go. ‘Now that you’re picture’s in the paper being rhythmically admired/And you can have…

I would like...to feed your fingertips...to the wolverines.

Civ3 and 4 had the cultural thing. Nothing was more satisfying than when a rival nation’s border city flipped over to me. It’s probably the mechanic I missed the most in 5 (haven’t played 6 yet).

Baked beans are off.

Check out Interstate 60 for a good Marsden movie. It’s written and directed by Bob Gale (who wrote Back to the Future), and it’s basically a road movie—it’s hard to describe, though. It’s weird and not for everyone, but the cast includes Gary Oldman, Kurt Russell, Amy Smart, and Ann-Margret as people he meets along…

In a Rolling Stone interview back in the 80s, Caine was asked about movies like Jaws 4 and Blame it on Rio, and he said ‘I pick the best script available when I need one’ (which at the time was 3-4 movies a year for him). He was ALL about the money for a good decade or so. (I can’t blame him, or Jeremy Irons for that…

I highly doubt we’ll see removal. The modern GOP leadership is far too craven for that. However, it’s barely possible that we’ll see Trump resign. I think, however, that the most likely scenario is acquittal by the Senate with a severely weakened Trump in next year’s general election.

We are all a part of the movie. We are in the movie and the movie is in us. Community plays the same backwards and forwards.

One of the most beautiful things about the novel is the twisted chronology, the slow unfolding of meaning as the events move forward, and back, and turn back in on themselves, leaving us to question everything until it all falls tragically into place. I’m sorry that they unraveled it.

Here’s Loudon Wainwright on Napster and ‘free music’ from 2003.

I saw a Travel Channel show where they visited a joint in New Jersey that puts the sauce on top--they call it a tomato pie, but it’s just pizza with the sauce on top.  So these guys in KC can’t even claim that.

And, strangely enough, that was the last time I watched the Oscars.  I’d watch the opening with Billy Crystal shoehorned into a bunch of movies, and turn it off...and then I realized that most of the movies I liked would never, in any way, shape or form, win any major awards, and I stopped completely.  Not even Jon…