reagan, hell - i'd be surprised if half the people who've shouted along to the song on the radio, a jukebox, boombox or arena tour would be able to describe the song as anything more than "America: Fuck YEAH!"

i wanna see stringer's reaction when he finds out shamrock was streaming video of their criminal fuckin conspiracy out to some co-op partners who asked for a teleconference hookup so they wouldn't have to drive all the way out to some shitty ass holiday inn…

it's actually not that hard to remember a bunch of statistics, especially if your job involves being immersed in them all day and they have to do with something you care about - i had no trouble believing someone at his level of the profession would be able to rattle off a bunch of facts and figures, especially given…

hey, man - grodin threw The Dude in the hole and got stepped on by king kong! "Get this lyin' hippy outtahere!"

maybe it's because i could swear someone just made reference to this concept over in the write-up on SportsNight but the comment about the interractions and the relationships between the BAU tech crew reminded me of the concept of the ''Venticelli'' or "Little Winds" in opera or something - they're supposed to be…

what i really love is the way isaac prefaces that comment to danny: "You know I love you, right? Then I can say this-" it's such a natural expression of genuine paternalism and gentle reproach; i can clearly imagine a grandparent saying precisely the same sort of thing, with the same mixture of dismay and tenderness.

what about the AI Gang? i thought those books were pretty cool, too. but. yeah, i read a lot of that kinda shit as well. if this was Arrested Development, we could look at each other and yell SAME!

an adaptation of Brown Harvest by Jay Russell would also work, although it never quite got as funny or as poignant as i thought it had the potential to be.

i didn't know who jack reacher was on my first reading of this book, either, and looking him up on the web led me to the lee child books, which i proceeded to spend roughly the next three months devouring, one after another. for books that make absolutely no pretense at high art, they're incredibly propulsive and…

i'm still looking for a good write-up of the last half of Studio 60, since i stopped watching about halfway through the season [and if you know of a good write-up, feel free to pass it along] but i did find this onion article, which may have prompted the talk about Sept11 [or may have been inspired by it] http://www.th…

sounds like it could be a lot of fun, but the really curious question would be how the show might have gone along if it was successful enough to go seven seasons or even more [how long did MASH go - 11? 7 seems to have become the default nowadays more due to salary/contracts than anything else…] because i seem to…

yeah, that sequence in West Wing really pissed me off, too.

we can also do firefly, the wire or community if you prefer.

i like the idea of scully being dead and simply someone hannibal talks to in his memory palace, which the books made a big deal out of.

[this is a reply to the quirk's comment]: and the groom wore a direwolf!

yeah, me too. i've actually argued with people about this - "Don't you feel dumb having paid money for a show you can stream for almost nothing? Plus storing/moving physical media - get with the future!"
 
yeah, the future sounds hassle-free until the big content provider yanks it away without announcement or warning.

except for how casey is often a dick - referring to the production crew as "the help" in season 1 made me hate him and finding out he had absolutely no qualms about making more money than dan for doing the exact same job made him even less likeable. sure, he can be charming and witty when he wants to be, but he's also…

…except for how all that cocaine seems to have led directly to matthew perry's character and plotlines in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

good call - easily my favorite opening in the entire series.

c'mon now - i'm pretty sure she was on an episode of Californication and didn't get that show killed… hmmm. that wiki entry says she was on 9 episodes of the show. for some reason, i only remember one.