well, 1 and 1/2 things.

any thoughts on SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS? I actually really liked it. A lot of other folks seem not to. love IN BRUGES though.

Uh, I, uh…geez I was…I didn't mean…to…uh….DAMMIT IVE BEEN FOWLED AND NOW FEEL LIKE AN ASSHOLE.
It wasn't meant as an insult to you or your writing on it. I guess as a 38 year old former WWF kid who grew up obsessed w/ Saturday Night Main Event, Wrestlemanias, Survivor Series, and the greats (Andre, Jake, Hulk, etc) in…

STATION ELEVEN is my favorite book of 2014, and I've since read all her other writing- she's amazing. NIGHT OF THE GUN was breathtakingly sad and inspirational at the same time, and Carr's death struck me like a train this year- he is missed by many people. SUN AND THE MOON is a lot of fun. Jay Mohr's book was ok. I…

And can the AV Club stop its wrestling thing? Stop trying to make that happen? I don't see how WWE RAW and Lucha Underground are really applicable to this site; you don't review baseball games or poker players, who gives a flying shit about Monday night's tag team match in a steel cage?

Wolf Hall, Kroll Show, Community, Documentary now!, Jim Gaffigan Show, and Sense8 all deserve the watching of you. I grant that Community 6 was not its most solid season, but hell, it still knocks any other sitcom out of the park. Gaffigan is a show that I can laugh out loud watching and not worry that my 10 yr old…

My top 11 for the year skew pretty closely:
15.SHOW ME A HERO
14. MASTER OF NONE
13. GETTING ON
12. Review
11. Rick and Morty
10. Nathan for You
9. Narcos
8. Justified
7. Mad Men
6. Better Call Saul
5. Hannibal
4. Rectify
3. The Leftovers
2. Fargo
1. The Americans

Oh man, my 3-movie day at the local plex this weekend- this, The Revenant, and Star Wars, is going to be the highlight of my adult life. And I have had 2 children and one of my screenplays turned into a movie in the past 10 years. That's how f*#king excited I am for this weekend.

this is kind of crazy, but if you look at Mr. Tripoli (Season 1) on IMDB- MARK ACHESON is his name- he actually has similar structural facial features to Hanzee. Now, I'm not saying this wasn't obviously retro-fitted into the story, but if he had plastic surgery done 20+ years earlier, its not implausible to think he…

oh come on, Harpo would be dropping acid w/ Miley and showing up at Flaming Lips shows wearing nipple pasties and skirts, if he was still alive.

and of course, the one we might actually ever use in life: NEVER ODD OR EVEN.

A man, a plan, a canal- PANAMA!

Do Good's deeds live on? No, Evil's deeds do, O God.

Go hang a salami! I'm a lasagna hog!

I would like SEASON 4 to be the ongoing saga of Mike Milligan, circa 1985, when he has moved onto LA or NYC and is the instrumental force behind the crack epidemic in the inner city, maybe starting it as a pilot program in Fargo or Kansas City first. Kind of a mix of NEW JACK CITY and FARGO, with Mike as the lead…

SIX FEET UNDER for the most succinct, summarized, no-questions-left-unanswered finale OF ALL TIME. BOOM. Nailed it.

Takako Konishi (1973?–November 2001) was an office worker from Tokyo who was found dead in a field outside Detroit Lakes, Minnesota on November 15, 2001. Konishi had originally arrived in Minneapolis earlier that month, traveled to Bismarck, then to Fargo, and finally to Detroit Lakes, where she died. Her death was…

that was a documentary, I believe. About a year or two ago a movie came out called KUMIKO that was a fictional version of it. Very interesting, nicely shot, starring that Japanese actress from BABEL or 21 GRAMS.

And then a movie was made out of that story, called KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER.

Yeah, but that was just a cat. Very different.