Mitchell and Webb did a great sketch on the SS totenkopf being sort of an indicator that they were the bad guys. I mean, even if we try to ignore the media in the subsequent years doing everything possible to ingrain that Nazi-style uniforms are worn by the villains it seems like they would have realized that the…

So basically the key to artistic development is to be a dick to friends and family? I'll get right on top of that immediately. This is a huge time-saver.

Teargarden by Kaleidyscope has been pretty solid. Much more in the way of psychedelic influences. It feels almost like he stopped trying to recreate the past entirely and just wrote what he wanted to. Then he decided that his most recent marketing plan of releasing singles online for free as part of a massive cycle…

How is that weird? I've always alphabetized my music. Alphabetical by name and then chronological by an album's release date. How else do you store them? Just in some sort of random order or in a big pile or something? I can't imagine someone would actually do that.

No, The Brave and the Bold was good and clever. blink-182 was more like Street Sharks.

Well, The Belgariad was one of my first thoughts on this so nice to hear it mentioned and it's an absolute shame that nobody has managed to do a good William Gibson adaptation. But there are a few other great ideas out there.

Except the British adaptations already exist and are almost uniformly terrible. They never managed to do a City Watch one IIRC, but I doubt it would be an improvement.

That would be pretty awesome and considering the number he's released and the current plans for the series they could manage to adapt two books every season and still run for a decade.

Dear NBC,

He also has one of the classiest orgasms. He doesn't need to go through some big display like an idiot. Have some dignity.

Dude-bro, really? I thought it was more of a crazy overprotective father sort of thing. About how everyone is really just out to abduct and rape your daughter.

When did Taken become "classic" and not "easily ignored"? I've been wondering why I've seen so many parodies of it lately. I didn't think anyone even bothered to see it. It felt very also-ran to me.

Yeah, I'd have preferred that. Not for being more "just", but for the ironic, poetic implications. As it was I felt that the finale was competent, but dull. I'd have liked a bigger shake-up rather than just a mild resolution.

Wait, people like Jesse? Seriously? He's not just a one-note moping sad-sack whose whiny moralizing brings the show down for anyone else? I mean, early Jesse was fun and interesting, but he quickly stopped being fun or compelling pretty quickly after he found himself unable to do anything other than feel sorry for…

My pronunciation of Latin remains excellent. Prove me wrong.

I'm often surprised when I rewatch episodes of Seinfeld and notice the many serial elements. Not just the larger season-long plots that tend to crop up later or certain recurring motifs in earlier seasons (Henniman's Scotch, Jerry calling George "Biff"), but things like continuity between women Jerry is dating or…

But it worked for Newhart!

So people will be happier if they get to hear a baby die for eight minutes if they had to listen to it crying for the previous eight? Sounds plausible.

Locke predicted rain because of an old injury that led to swelling in response to the changing pressure system.

Except, of course, that an equally large portion of the audience DIDN'T agree that it was "about the characters" and instead felt that it was about the mythology. The characters were often problematic and whiny with a serious problem of not communicating.