"“Lady L” is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard." 
Oh, Todd, it's one of the worst songs ANYone's ever heard.

I'm squarely in the anti-BBT camp.  I've seen whole episodes and never laughed once, even at jokes or lines that would be (possibly) funny in other shows.  I've never figured out why.  Part of it might be that the characters are so amazingly unappealing, in every way.
Another part is that it's just badly written and…

Great show, and… it actually ended, right?  Didn't Kimble catch the one-armed man in the last episode?

Faking the moon landing makes cost-benefit sense if you film it from multiple angles, and rerun it a few more times in succeeeding years, with different voiceovers and Apollo numbers.
Which they so obviously DID!

I really loved when people, not just Rosie O'Donnell, kept going on about how hard it is to melt steel.  Do they think steel just grows in the shape of girders? There's, you know, a whole industry based on making metal into different shapes and I'm pretty sure heat is involved.

Pugs -
I agree with you, don't  get me wrong, but those theorists have addressed this handily. There's a documentary (not sure which one) about the whole situation, which helpfully explains that several people reported mysterious construction-noises for days before 9/11.  These noises, and also "official" signs and…

They seem cooler in Illuminatus!….  Or at least more inclined to get high.  When necessary.

Mohd - I haven't read Black Banners but it sounds good.  Another book that delves into the origins of 9/11 is -and I'm not being facetious here - is The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation.  Its beginning pages have parallel narratives going back decades, pretty much explaining where the US ended up as…

Marathon Man is good - and a decent adaptation, but… in the book, quite a few secrets are spilled later than in the movie.  Necessarily, as … well, if you SEE a person rather than just read about him…
You'll know what I mean if you've read the book and seen the movie.  Fine performances from Olivier, Scheider and…

Thanks, Craig… but given Hitler's fondness for the occult, I always thought that maybe he would have been working on actual werewolves for the plan.  Hey, what better way to hide soldiers among the advancing Allied forces than to have them be wolves at night, dazed naked men during the day?

When the whole "great American novel" subject comes up, I gravitate toward Huck Finn (mostly because Terry Bisson [I think] did a lovely essay on the fact that Huck's phrase 'all right, I'll GO to hell…" might be the most important words in American fiction [Bisson put it better, trust me]), and, episodic as the…

I think both complaints are semi-valid (though I haven't read either Dust or Skinner [which is the Huston book referred to I think}; I do plan to read both…

It's so nice to see that pic of Julia Roberts up there, looking dull and haggard.  Um.. because that's the way I think of her.  Always have.

Never seen this, and certainly want to now.

The only casting that makes sense?  Garrett Morris.  He's done it before and could use the work.  And to stave off any Heimdall-style backlash:  what, you never heard of black ants?

When you say "reality show" you really don't need to follow it up with "it would devolve into really nasty misogyny almost immediately", do you?

Not all Caps are tacky.  Steve Rogers is a tad old-fashioned, but…

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I usually think I don't like Vince Gill, but then am reminded of some pretty stellar work he's done, with the Pure Prairie League among others.  And he was pretty good on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me a few years back.

How are they going to muster their troops when they have to protest GAY divorce?  I mean, heads would explode, wouldn't they?