Aha, that's where I recognized him from.  Never seen this, but they sure have been promoting the hell out of it.

Son of a bitch!

I think he meant love of gambling.  Everyone loves to gamble on the Oscars, right?

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I think you're thinking of Larry the Cable Guy.  But we also would have accepted "one of the contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race".

Think of it this way: aggressive loner wolves who kill people are more like humans than beasts.  The werewolf myth is kind of a compliment to the animal.

I'm going to have the "Busytown Mysteries" theme stuck in my head all day now, goddammit.

Absolutely.  I can't imagine why anyone prefers Whitney's version — it's an impressive showpiece, not a moving performance.  Dolly's original is an all-time killer.

When someone complains about the ads on this site, can we all just assume they're surreptitiously surfing at work and don't have the option of installing adblock, a different browser, etc etc?  And those Delocated ads are really pretty awful.

Jose Feliciano did an outstanding cover of 'Masters of War,' actually.  If you like Jose Feliciano.  Which I do.

Yeah, most of Dylan's performances have room to be improved on (and some of them have a fuck-ton of room) but that doesn't apply to anything on Blood on the Tracks.  Or Blind Willie McTell, which might just be my favourite Dylan tune ever, and one I never ever ever want to hear covered.

It was pretty clear that Jude Law was profiteering.  There were one or two mildly obstructionist characters on the government side ("Whose budget is this coming out of?") but on the whole, it didn't feel ambiguous to me.

That was before free trade.  Nowadays, they ship all those cheap goalies in from Finland, and it's crippling the Quebec economy.

"I'd go with you, but…"

Jesus.  I remember my aunts all reading that book at the cottage one summer.  I assumed it was just a typical boring aunt book, and paid no attention.  I have now just read the summary on wikipedia, and am something close to dumbfounded.

My reaction was "great in parts."  Always beautiful to look at, and I thought the impressionistic childhood scenes were incredible and moving.  But the birth of the universe thing left me cold, all the Sean Penn stuff seemed like a huge misfire, the ending was a flat trite fail, and I think "pretty dumb and filled…

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