Need to learn that Dornishman's Wife song, because damn.

Wow, I guess you looked this up and all, but some of us were alive for the Reagan horror, and remember very well Bitburg, or Philadelphia MS, and we were pointing out he was a racist fuck from day one. But you LOOKED IT UP SO WELP, no use contradicting a weak AI developed by the South Carolina lege.

We call it "Franch".

A lot of gambling movies (and I love gambling movies) have this great magical sensibility, where Luck is this real, primal force, which is either on the characters' side or not. Let It Ride, The Cooler, The Cincinnati Kid, Intacto, all have this fairy tale quality.

"The Van" is an earthy, enthusiastic, funny, great movie. I think it's time for a rewatch.

When I saw the title of the episode, given the show's history, I expected pure right-wing dumbshittery. I was pleasantly surprised; the Michael Moore and drum circle stuff were easy jokes, sure, but not ridiculously out there. Maybe Trey and Matt are putting down their own stuffed animals.

Was laughing my ass off at the PT Cruiser. Tough to find something even uglier than the Aztek. Bravo, BB.

I loved Walt's reaction to Jesse's "you wanna do something?" From his reaction, it seemed Walt first heard that as "you wanna do something about our intolerable boss, like shoot him?", which made the go-kart line all the funnier.

Clube da Esquina is indeed a fine album.

Jonah Hill will do fine
As long as no actual jumping is involved.

they HATE Stewart/Colbert
("they" being the superset of assholes who are rogering the US into the ditch)

Terriers is the shit.

Kelli Garner
was a different kind of MPDG in Lars (less manic, more sweet, more(!) unstable). I and my dangly bits are intrigued by a punked-up Garner, but not intrigued enough to watch, though staring at stills is a possibility too.

Defend her from what? Her inevitable future? If hi-res photos of Katy Perry's snatch aren't as common as dirt within three years, I'll eat Russell Brand's beard. Meaning Katy Perry. AND THUS THE CIRCLE OF LIFE IS COMPLETE.

SO SCARY
Terrifying, the way SPOILER the demon bored them to death.

I also like Mrs. Professor's keeping a random (to her) ironic souvenir of her husband's suicide encased in Lucite, but that's just because I like rolling my eyes.

The music is much better; they're not relying on the big upswells to carry heavy meaning as much. Unfortunately the cheesiness is getting embarrassing (who *doesn't* speak Urdu amirite?). Also I'm pretty sure that the intelligence community tries to screen out the mentally ill, not recruit them (though that would …

They do all the intel!
"If we devote all our resources to investigating one guy the other guy might sell a dirty bomb to Al Qaeda! We are the only ones who can stop them!

It involves stuffing Emma Thompson inside Mirren, then stuffing Mirren inside Judi Dench. It was originally called "The Human Turducken." BOOM!

Didn't think I was watching AMC.
Clumsy conspiracies, shallow characterization. People who are supposed to have OMG RAINMAN levels of intellect, but show all the blandness of models from a JC Penney catalog (except the sniveling incompetent rat-faced fat fuck, who is a sniveling incompetent rat-faced fat fuck in every…