I love Wes Anderson (usually) and Patton, and like Parks and Rec but have fallen about a season behind on it!

So's Dan Mintz.

Did they ever explain what happened to the ice cream man? Stranded in the desert, those guys stole his truck, he's covered in paint… I guess maybe he could have gone back to the gas station and called a friend to pick him up? But if not, that guy is in some serious trouble.

Epiphanies only work if you can synthesize them.

You know, in all fairness, Hilary Winston appears to be running this show, and she's certainly done a lot of really good work in recent years. It doesn't seem like a great premise, but what premise does seem like a great premise, really?

I got into the Smiths in 2003, a few months after graduating from college. They have a pretty specific sound — there are a few other '80s bands that are similar (though clearly influenced, e.g. the Siddeleys or Another Sunny Day), but none of the really successful ones.

Yeah — I'd go with The Queen is Dead or one of the singles compilations (presumably Louder Than Bombs?)

Presence opens with Led Zeppelin's best song. I don't consider myself a fan, and even I know that.

Citation very much needed (citation not at all in line with my personal experience).

Imagine a dystopian world where it was Gillian Jacobs. 

I've heard good things about them, but the show I saw them do a year or two ago was pretty bad. I mean, even the actual musical portion, not the part where they wasted 45 minutes re-enacting a "Spongebob Squarepants" episode at the top of the show.

Neither as gentle, as murderous, or as good as Another Sunny Day's "You Should All be Murdered."

Really, you can probably just listen to "Either/Or" in its entirety.

I would say Belle and Sebastian/New Pornographers, but Dan Bejar and Neko Case weren't on that tour, which diminished things somewhat. (Still very good, though the sound was way off at the concert I attended. Neither of those bands needs a low end, Wiltern Theatre!)

Also, are movies about undercover cops known as a particularly shallow sub-genre now?

A decade, huh? That's almost the entire lifespan of a junkyard cat.

Remember that episode where Kristen Schaal guest starred? What a tragedy.

Oh, they're not cancelling The Walking Dead any time soon.

Conflating OMC and White Town is a pretty big insult to White Town.

This book is more self-referential than Walt Flanagan's dog.