Tweedy's fans are assholes in Columbus, too. Everywhere, I assume.

Coupling should be you nerds' wet dream—wasn't it written by the Dr. Who showrunner? Anyway, it's funny.

Saw them a few months ago in W. Virginia. I admire but don't love their style of music, but they worked their asses off and were so sincere (probably too sincere for this dedicated asshole) that I could not help but have a great time and wish I was from the south (for the first time ever and Yankee through and…

McCartney should have thrown How Do You Sleep into that medley.

This was a mediocre episode—decent open, solid weekend update, terrible recurring sketches—which is as good as SNL gets. Add to that the awesomeness of McCartney and you have a solid B episode.

In 2002, Snopes debunked the myth that rickster's mom was on Bundy's grand jury. They'll never debunk the fact that his mom offered me a ride once, and even though I had no gas or grass, I still got the ride.

Dammit, Pierce. I went out of my way to give you a hard time (almost always in jest) but you were one of the best things about this site and you'll be missed. The book club will not be the same without you and your insights (hell, for all I know, you were its main champion—will it even continue without you?). Aw…

Yeah, sample size is the one they mess up on so often, calling something proven or not based on the flimsiest of evidence.

Seriously, can public schools do nothing right?
If Julie had taken her driver's ed classes at a charter school, she never would have crashed that car.

No love for 42 or 58008?

I'm far from outraged because that's a decent list and individual tastes and all that, but while they didn't break any new ground with these, the New Pornographers, Belle and Sebastian, and the Gorillaz all released very very very good albums this year.

Read his New Adventures of Hitler, Invisibles, Doom Patrol, Seaguy, etc. and you'll realize that he lost his mind long ago (in the best possible way). If anything, Morrison's been compromising his vision in his Batman comics.

This sounds a bit like a rationalization, but there's just too much evidence to deny that Morrison is likely being intentionally unclear at times. He wants you to take an active part in the stories through interpretation, inference, etc. Sometimes, I think he's just not good at getting his ideas across through the…

Grant Morrison's Towelie subversively focuses on how a towel could actually bring about positive change by contributing to chaos (through snapping at deserving asses, refusing to be monogrammed, etc) against those who would force us all to be at exactly the same level of wetness/dryness.

What now?

Pierce is an expert on binding (and gagging) 14 year olds.

This show reminds me of a lot of good but sometimes awkward times I had during the seven years it took me to earn my first online degree.

Wild card!

So what's the apology?
We've heard a few theories, here.

I agree that even though many of the events in Blood Meridian are apparently based on historical facts, this one murder in Apology seemed more believable, relatable, and powerful to me. For me, the characters and events in Meridian were written to seem more timeless, mythic, and symbolic than real. Outside of The…