Shocking, but true.

There's one still from the movie (at http://www.nytimes.com/2014… where he looks like Joel McHale. Maybe we can work with it that somehow

Toback is all unintentional comedy. He's like the less-talented, less self-aware, more macho bullshit version of Norman Mailer. I liked Fingers, but everything else is stupidly overrated.

It's unnecessary because a lot of the fun of the movie was in the directorial choices. The story itself, on its own, doesn't seem too adaptable. Will they do the avalanche scene in one take? Will it be impressive still, or just derivative?

I always loved how excited Elaine was to see Sack Lunch, asking the theater cashier questions about it like it's the lost print of Greed or something.

Krugman's Get Him to the Greek cameo now seems very prescient. That movie had more of Prospect's top-ten public intellectuals than any other movie!

60% of the way through Against the Day, which (no joke) might be Pynchon's greatest. Even when it settles down into a proper story for 300-400 pages, it's at least a violent Peckinpah-ish Western. I've also been reading Max Apple's The Propheteers, which I bought for a dollar outside the library. An absurd…

It's the David Byrne version of paranoia, which means running around the stage and flailing over the microphone. In the Talking Heads world, I don't think there's anything wrong about a post-apocalyptic party. However, the Fear of Music version is still probably better. I just love watching Byrne jog around the stage.

Even the Westlaw reps at my law school called it "shepardizing" and would apologize when they caught themselves doing it.

Gwyneth Paltrow has a very muscular back. I fear for Mortdecai in that scene.

I've only been practicing a few years, but the law stuff seems extremely well-done. I was going to nitpick how class actions are always removed to federal court under CAFA, and they didn't need RICO to remove the case (they did need RICO for the treble damages, I guess). Then I looked up and saw that CAFA passed in…

Big Law people are dismissive because Jimmy got a correspondence degree and failed the Bar twice and he works in their mailroom. No mystery there. Big Law people are douches.

That's a good angle. I hadn't thought about that.

Plus, how can you "Shepardize" a Westlaw case? Respect the Lexis trademark, Better Call Saul writers!

Lawyers competing to represent the class: it happens all the time in class-action cases. I think that's where the show is headed.

A class action is not pro bono. The judge awards legal fees at the end. It's usually the biggest part of any class action verdict.

Agreed. I think the set-up is that this case has gotten Chuck back to work, and HHM, using the partnership agreement and the fact that Chuck was billing work on his firm Westlaw account, is going to take the case from Jimmy.

That episode is the best thing Foghat was ever associated with, including Dazed and Confused.

"The master builder awaits the pyramids."

That's some good stand-up philosophy.