What's the link to the TI forum? I created an account months ago but I keep forgetting that it exists.

Comparing The Shield to The Wire definitely does the show a disservice, because they're not trying to accomplish the same things. Los Angeles isn't a character on The Shield; Farmington matters insofar as the LAPD operates there. The show could try to treat the actions of the police in a broader context than it does,…

Yeah, I realized afterwards that that's not necessarily self-evident. I am indeed DISQUS_Spider.

It took me a while to figure out what you meant by that. I always forget that that's a name that I use.

Speaking of trolls, is Chris Conley a wide receiver for the Georgia Bulldogs? I don't see why not: http://deadspin.com/georgia…

We've all heard communism referred to as a good idea in theory but a bad one in practice or something of that nature, but nowadays I find that analysis facile. Mostly I feel like it's fallacious to try to extract a "pure" communism; communism is what it was, and there's not much more to it than that. Certainly Marxist…

My favorite is cross-linguistic slang, wherein people appropriate multiple languages and fit them to their own ends. The immediate example that comes to mind is stadin slangi, the Finnish/Swedish hybrid of Helsinki.

I'd like to learn Persian someday. It's really the language of Indian culture over the last millennium, and it's also one of the prettiest languages I know of.

I did. I'm not sure if I necessarily want to commit to it (especially since I've done three reviews already), but I can step up if nobody else is interested.

You're welcome.

That is a very good ranking. Mine, based on 30 seconds of thought last night:

List your top five songs on each Arcade Fire album.

The Tinychat character limit appears to no longer exist. O frabjous day!

I didn't think Bouchard had much of a chance against Sharapova, but all of a sudden there's a path open for her. And on Canada Day, too.

One of my favorite things about rewatching old Community episodes is that I know them all so well that I find myself laughing in advance of every great joke.

No, this is Patrick.

What do you intend to do with your life over the next five years?

Since Colombia is playing, now is the time to note that one of my roommates always refers to Radamel Falcao as "Flacco".

That game was better than good. It was good enough.

Things kind of went to shit pretty fast. Hanging on the edge right now.