I kind of feel like The Band's music as a whole was one big embodiment of that principle. I heard somebody say once that "no one needs to be any better than The Band were," i.e. in terms of musicianship. Not that they couldn't rip sometimes, but I'll take their brand of well-crafted- yet idiosyncratically arranged-…

Also, that means we're about to lose the last of The Band's three wonderful singers. The world will be a slightly darker place for it.

Hang around, Willy Boy
The flying Dutchman's on the reef
It's my belief we've used up all our time
This hill's too steep to climb
And the days that remain ain't worth a dime…

Have to admit that, when I saw Pierce's Pillow Monster, I let myself start thinking "A+" for this episode…

More good news: It looks like Jon Brion actually produced this one. That bumps my expectations up several notches.

Kath and Dave… they've been in several sketches, I believe. They were the couple in the "AY OH RIVER" sketch a few weeks ago, etc…

Yeah he said "been" like "bean" once on Homeland, which tipped me off. I too was shocked, because other than that his accent seemed perfect. Right up there with Hugh Laurie and Jamie Bamber from Battlestar, I'd say…

Also, the picture on the top of this page was not in the version of this episode that I watched. My episode was lute-free.

"What did Hemingway do?"
"Oh, he killed himself."

I have to say, though, that this show does remind me of 24 sometimes, and not in a good way. I really liked this episode, but having seen the whole "hero with special insight gets sidelined by his/her own people right when they need him/her the most" thing on 24 a bunch of times already kind of diminished the end of…

A little bit late, but… Claire Danes was amazing in this episode. Not just the showy parts when she was all over the place, but when she wakes up the next morning and sees what Saul has done with her work. This episode should be on her Emmy reel, for real.

Amen… I will never understand why the AV Club has tried so hard to defend that show while simultaneously shitting all over Whitney. From what I've seen of both shows, they're just about equally execrable, and in pretty much the same way.

I wonder if this movie will also have the part where Bruce Wayne stops being a paraplegic after he absorbs some errant mind-rays from a nearby psychic battle.

That's why I've aborted all of my potential children. I showed them!

Which version, though? I had the unreleased Jon Brion version for quite a while before the official version came out, so I might be biased. For me, the only version that's straight-up better on the official version is "O Sailor," because the unreleased version is slower and too long by at least a minute. I'd say…

Also, canceraids.

Yeah the second game is a dramatic improvement over the first one in every way; and I actually like Brotherhood even more than AC2. When Brotherhood came out, I was shocked to see how complete of a game it was- it's not just and add-on to AC2 at all. Either way, they both improve on all the annoying bits about the…

Man… A.W.E.S.O.M.-O is really running out of ideas these days.

I've watched a few episodes of this and a few episodes of Whitney, and they seem pretty much the same, and equally crappy, to me. I don't understand why the AV Club seems determined to give this show the benefit of the doubt…

I think the central conceit of this article may be a bit tenuous, but I definitely find this commercial amusing and pretty well-observed. I don't watch a ton of TV, but I can remember seeing a handful of ads over the past five or six years that I genuinely thought were fairly brilliant in their tiny distillations of…