Wrong answer, Hcd. You do the middle button of a three button suit, leaving top and bottom undone. If you're getting your fashion tips from Men's Wearhouse, you should sign up for one of my clinics. I can help you.

No one should ever do up the top button on a three button suit. Come to think of it, why is he wearing a three button suit? That's so 90s. I guess you can still get away with it in the winter, but it's May, for crying out loud.

I guess what I'm saying is that my expectations for American distance running have been so low for so long that I see glimmers of hope rather than continuing disappointment.

Gotta start somewhere. American distance running has had nowhere to go but up for the past 15? 20? 25? years. Hall, Goucher, and some of their contemporaries are the first steps. If by sweeping change you mean someone who appears out of nowhere and shatters all the records, that might be a bit much to hope for. If…

Who here ordered the sah-sage?

Me too. I've been looking forward to it since Runner's World told me it was coming out (in wide release).

I dunno, talkingstove. Ryan Hall is the first American to run a half under an hour, and his marathon PR is 2:06:17. I know Gebreselassie's world record is 2:18 faster, but only 10 years ago the world record was 2:06:05. Hall is really fast, and I don't think he's peaked yet. On the women's side, Kara Goucher's…

Miller, that link is just horrifying. Here is maybe the best/worst quote:

Ah. That was a gap in my pop culture knowledge, which the AV Club comments section has now kindly filled. Thank you.

G-Force, eh? It just won't be the same without Zoltar.

I opted out of clicking the link. A propos of last week's AVQ&A, U2 gets a lifetime pass from me on the strength of War, Unforgettable Fire, and Achtung Baby, plus the fact that it was my earliest introduction to music that wasn't what my parents were playing. But Bono has been doing his best to revoke that pass for…

Hmm. I was perhaps less precise than I could have been. Bono and Larry were both born in Dublin. The Edge moved to Dublin when he was one. Adam moved there aged five. So, only half were actually born in Ireland, but all four grew up there and are generally considered Irish. Not sure why I'm going to remedial…

All of this has happened before . . .
Or at least some of it. The lyrics to Elvis Ate America, which was released on Original Soundtracks 1 under the band name Passengers, are apparently from this 14 minute epic. At very least, there's substantial overlap.

I thought it was Chuck D. to whom Elvis don't mean shit.

Ireland, and not the northern part, but close.

Wow, favorite Dylan song is really tough. If pressed, I'd say: Up to Me. Rounding out the top five: Abandoned Love, Visions of Johanna, Forever Young, Caribbean Wind.

I'm under the impression that in the UK they put the comma (or period) outside the quotation marks. This is because the punctuation mark was not in the original and one is not actually quoting the punctuation mark. (Unless it was, in which case it goes inside.) The English rule makes a lot of sense. So, although…

Lost in Translation resonates if you've ever been somewhere very far from home, in a different time zone and a very different culture, and just felt completely alienated. I think that's the atmosphere/feeling that it's going for, and in my opinion, it captures that feeling very well.

A Terminator (tm) tie-in Slurpee (tm)?! 7-11 (tm) and I are done, professionally.

Only if you like great tits.