I don't know what you mean, but it had the cadence of a joke.

When we first saw Cam's dad, I thought, being from Texas myself, "Hey, nice, you don't normally hear an actor do a Texan accent so well." Then it took me longer than it should have to realize, "Wait, that's Barry Corbin. No wonder his accent is so authentic." Then it occurred to me—and the show quickly reminded…

It's pretty damn good. "Should've Been in Love" is one of my favorite Wilco songs.

Looking beyond all the typical Castle-isms (such as the stupid, stupid murder case, or Beckett telling the bad guy to get out of town at the end), that might have been the most entertaining episode of Castle I've seen. Which is to say, it was still kind of lazy, mediocre television but deliriously fun Castle.

Did anyone ever listen to Jonatha Brooke's album putting music to unrecorded Guthrie lyrics? I was looking forward to it since the Mermaid Avenue albums worked out so well and her stuff up to that point had been so good. It was highly disappointing. At least we got Mermaid Avenue, though.

Maybe my using "mass" was pushing it, but he's definitely popular. He's well beyond a cult author. And aren't all his books still in print? The vast majority of authors can't say the same.

Eh, even with books I love I can barely remember the plot.

Anne, Lamb is one of the two I've read. It just struck me as relatively bland (though I know I'm in the minority there). I get a lot more out of Pratchett.

I think you mean, "which is a boner in Westeros," don't you?

Why is Christopher Moore so popular? I've only read a couple of books by him and didn't get the mass appeal.

I remember Shriver's The Post-Birthday World getting strong reviews a few years ago, including from The AV Club. But even though it's waiting on my shelf, I made the mistake of reading Game Control instead, which was published in 1994. It turned out to be thin satire and an unsatisfying novel overall, so I can see why…

I noticed his voice and didn't know what to make of it. For most of the episode, it didn't sound like his usual voice and he didn't even sound (if I remember correctly) like he did in his previous appearance on TGW. This time his voice was nasal and coming from the back of his mouth. Then when he was in elevator with…

Craig, if I hadn't seen Zelig or Manhattan, I would have loved the black and white cinematography in Celebrity, but by that point, it felt rehashed to me.

Unless you desperately want to be a completist, avoid Melinda and Melinda. I just watched it a few weeks ago and it's only a half-notch less excruciating than I recall Hollywood Ending being. It's barely warmed-over Allen, Radha Mitchell can't pull off both roles, and Will Ferrell is a terrible Allen stand-in. (I'd…

Montypark, except for In a Sunburned Country, I believe I've read all his travel books including The Lost Continent, and none of them ever hit the sweet spot for me that AWitW did. I remember The Lost Continent boring me a bit, actually. To each his own.

Exactly.

Ah, New Order. In the late 80s, at least in my group, the first disc of Substance was the gateway drug of choice.

I probably laughed more during A Walk in the Woods than any other book I've read. (Well, I might have laughed more during Sedaris's Naked but it's a book of essays, not a sustained narrative like AWitW.)

Don't forget:
4. Art school

But sherbert is basically a bastardization of sherbet, isn't it? Especially since, according to Merriam-Webster, it comes from a Turkish word with no second "r." It's like one of my college students who asked me this week if "thru" is the actual way the word is spelled.