One of Jen's boyfriends from The IT Crowd, who at least looked like the part and then failed to actually be any good at magic when Jen insisted he become one.

A few more listens in now … I don't know that I prefer any half or part of it over the other anymore.  Like all their albums, it's grown pretty cohesive.

Massive fan of the band.  First spin through, I'm liking the back-half of the album more?

I really loved reading TTSS.  I tried to follow it up with The Honorable Schoolboy but stalled out … I dunno, I found it a bit of a slog.  I hope to revisit it later this year, effectively starting over, hoping that my failure to get through it then was more attributable to whatever else I had going on at the time…

i think this is a fair point.  if a pro-athlete from the big four american sports makes that threat, they are suspended for a good stretch.  in the nba, i'd guess it's five games, easy.  of course tennis doesn't have the sort of perception of violence that some of those other sports sometimes suffer from, so maybe the…

Jaws as well, due to my fondness for sharks as a kid.  Like everyone else mentioned, with time, I learned to love the movie as a whole.  And I don't think I really even appreciated the Robert Shaw monolog about the sharks in the water until maybe the 20th time I watched the thing.  But, yes, if you knew me during my…

Noah is a throwback kinda dude.  One of the few bigs today who would have had the moxie to be serviceable in the rough and tumble '80s playoff wars.  But I think the brunt of the credit for Chicago's year and success, all things considered, has to go to Thibs — he really coached his ass off this year.

Thanks so much for posting that link, it totally made my day.  I don't know how but I totally missed that article!  It was great to see the love and discussion over a series of books that feels very much forgotten and lost to more modern sensibilities somehow.

Lloyd Alexander's Prydain books.  The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, and so on … I read and reread them all several times over as a child.  And have since reread them shortly after finishing undergrad and then years later.  I find that they still hold up really well.

I kinda get where you're coming from.  I've only read the first trade for L&K, and enjoyed it FWIW, but the artwork was kind of a turnoff for me as well.

Yeah, I'll chime in to say the same — at least half the stories in that collection can stand on their own two legs next to anyone else's stuff.  It's worth checking out.

That third season of Friday Night Lights has some great send-off episodes for Jason Street and Smash, if I remember correctly.

Isn't this band and Panic at the Disco pretty much the same band?  Like, has anyone ever verified that these two bands have ever existed in two different locations at the same exact time?  In all seriousness, I made the "mistake" of saying they were the same thing around the wrong people once and I pretty much got…

It appears i have the same connection to Graceland that you folks do.  Well, Graceland and Simon and Garfunkel's reunion Concert in Central Park from 1980 or whenever that was.  This was the stuff that scored every single cross-country car ride and move in my childhood.  And so it was that when I went off to college…

There was a really excellent Charlie Rose segment with Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Curaon, and Alejandro Innaritu right before that year's Oscars, where the three of them were up for various levels of recognition for Pan's Labyrinth, CoM, and Babel.  [http://www.charlierose.com/…] It's one of the best interviews out…

One of the most haunting images you can see in a movie is the abandoned school in CoM.  That's when you really understand that CoM's world entirely lacks hope and the laughter of children and no wonder everything has gone to shit.

The ambush scene is excellent but why stop there?  When Owen scales the apartment building in the war zone at the end, with bullets whizzing around, you absolutely feel like you are in a first person shooter video game but in real life.  But really what puts you on notice is the sudden explosion on the street outside…

Trudy's always had some Jedi magic to her.  Remember in the first season when Don was trying to weasel his way out of a dinner with the Campbells?  And all it took was a 30 sec phone call with Trudy to pretty much disarm all his protestations.

The Internet would explode.

@avclub-cb468a6694bb6107ec377a301fc6a0df:disqus Is Vicks still their client?  I can't remember at this point but it seems like, if such were the case, that would be one way.  Though it feels like the show has gone down that road before, when Pete's father-in-law was unhappy about something related to marriage and it…