Shfooyadell'—sfogliatelle—are Italian pastries. They're roughly clam shaped, made of layers of dough like phyllo except thicker w/ a bit of a crunch, and contain a sweet cheese filling, usually with bits of citron or candied fruit. Typically dusted w. powdered sugar. Places in the NYC/northern NJ area that make decent…

I haven't cried dis much since I paid full price to see "Godfadda Part 3!" (blows nose in slice of pizza)

Have Peggy Olson throw a case of Excedrin in the trunk and you've got a deal.

It's a grim tale of mounting dehumanization in a world where the veneration of secular normality has reduced the Flying Nun's beloved Church to a husk of empty rituals and vestigial fear, and also it contains 14 uses of the term "bugfuck."

Or pissing yourself during a staff meeting in an alcoholic blackout.

::bows, drives victoriously to Lynn Bracken's fuck pad::

Dudley Smith, if James Ellroy is to be believed.

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Orc: The Other White Meat

Good chuckle in that ep out of one of Massive G's entourage getting Chris's attention by yelling, "Yo, Donnie Brasco!"

"He stands … like some sort of pagan god or deposed tyrant. Staring out over the city he's sworn to … stare out over … and it's evident—just by looking at him—that he's got some pretty heavy things on his mind."

This thread is the Bombur. Very phat.

Too Much Time FTW. Suddenly recast in the next season, and in that lone season-ending ep on DVD, by another actress when Balk balked due to scheduling conflicts.

Need of Firefox, Johnny. And canned peaches.

Not just Catholicism, AJR & Eponymous; pre-Vatican II Catholicism in the case of the show's adults. Rules-bound, Latin-Mass, clergy-can-do-no-wrong Catholicism. (To cross shows for a sec, the Catholicism of Peggy Olson's mom in "Mad Men.") It says a lot about Carmella's deference to Monsignor Jughead until late in…

Valentina La Paz was absolutely the hottest in one late-series scene.

SPOILER! SPOILER? I DON'T EVEN KNOW 'ER:

@Acid Keg—You're thinking of other-painting-show guy Bill Alexander, with his loving renditions of sun-dappled forests, placid streams, and the Obersalzberg. "Now ve add a little Van Dyke brown to ze alizarin crrrimson. Ja? You are zee mighty creator!"

I WANT MYYYYYYYYYY PAINTING!!!!!!!!!!!

Used to live down the street from the Bing (Satin Dolls on Rt. 17 South). Finally caught up with the series a few months after I moved from that location; wondered whether I'd ever driven by, in a post-work, traffic-dodging haze, while they were filming a Season 1 exterior shot.

And now I know what that tapping beneath my floorboards is.