Cast Iron
Fishing
The three from Strings I listed above
Night of the Chill Blue
Mower
100,000 Fireflies
Skip Steps
Water Wings …

I've been a fan since about 91, 92. So welcome to the club. There's no better trio of songs in the middle of an album than Detroit Has A Skyline/Eastern Terminal/Animated Airplanes Over Germany, and I strongly encourage folks to see them live. Just an intense, fun, no-bullshit performance.

"Fenway stadium"?
Um, no. That's Fenway Park.

Dittos to Croufraj. Keaton's SHERLOCK JR. is a remarkable first attempt at this sort of thing, done with unimaginable technical skill for the time.

A Top Ten Quote From The Series
Janice: What'd you do with him?
Tony: We buried him… On a hill … overlooking a little river, with pine cones all around.
Janice : You did? (joyous)
Tony: C'mon Janice, what the fuck? What do you care what we did with him, huh?

The only broadcast tv movies nominated for an Emmy in the last 12 years were the adaptations of TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE and the star-filled A RAISIN IN THE SUN. (The former did win in 2000).

Help Me, Memory Bank
When were the last truly great telemovies or miniseries on network tv? Because I can run through scores of films like HBO's RECOUNT or CHEATERS (the Jeff Daniels-starring take on the Steinmetz academic decathlon scandal) before I'll remember, gosh, NORTH AND SOUTH?

Well there's a house in an alley
In the squats and low-rise …

If it weren't for the laughter guns you're riding on …
You would not exist.

Bartlet's Greatest Hits
Also competing on the countdown are the Dr. Laura smackdown and my personal favorite, "In the future, if you're wondering, 'Crime. Boy, I don't know,' is when I decided to kick your ass."

The National Cathedral wasn't apprised of this in advance. After they saw it, they banned all filming there going forward.

It's very odd watching something like RENT now, where Mark Cohen's all skittish about "selling out" by doing some documentary work for a network. At this point, I'm all like "Get a job, you slacker!".

I didn't realize there was a music writer out there who hadn't already taken a dump on the late part of Phair's career. Enough already.

Also, Babish is absolutely right that like Clinton, Bartlet should have retained private counsel. Privilege issue is huge.

The William Safire Question
Are we sure it's "Juggalos" and not "Juggaloes"?

I remember using TEAM I LOVE MY DEAD GAY SON to label a "dad and estranged son" team during a recent season of The Amazing Race.

Did anyone else feel like Wells did to TWW the same thing that he did to ER in terms of shifting a show from "everyone's flawed, but doing their best" to Heroes v. Villains? I liked the dynamic of the Santos-Vinick race, but all the confrontation with the Republicans in Congress seemed very one-note.

Sam did work on double-hulled tankers at one point, of course:

Emergency/Jail
One of my all-time favorite episodes of the show, because of the way that the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality flows back into the Seaborn/Gault plotline. "This girl's going to find out who her father was." "Sam, you meant grandfather …"

Thank goodness …
… her dad only PLAYED Ike Turner, and is not, in fact, Ike Turner. Because Ike Turner would whupp her good right now.