You know as well as I do, every damn person on this board plays that every Christmas eve.  Don't sweat it. 

I'm looking at you, Inland Center.

Highly recommend the chapters in David Byrne's "How Music Works" that explain what exactly he was thinking in putting this tour together.  Some of it is well worn, a lot is new.  What struck me is that the stage conceit of starting with one person and growing to many is largely what they'd been doing for a few tours…

Tied between "My enemies… Pelosi, Maddow, Baldwin" for best meta-joke to go out on. 

Cam-er-ah. 

Just that they remained committed to the joke to the very end, when every other self indulgent show would have balked, and gone serious and soft.  Nice.

And then said "I don't want your pity."  Awesome. 

It's about my mom.

Based on 'piercing comedy routine delivered only to your parents and sold to the rest of the world', I take Bamford.

Oh.  'Wierd Grease badass'.  Danny to Jack's mom's Sandy.  Duh.  That's why I show up here after the show, AVClub.

That episode had two things that have been missing for a long time- pretty much since around the time Avery got kidnapped- that I think Rabin nailed:  elegant plotting, and the jokes layered upon jokes.

Hmm… Speilberg involving himself with half hour morality plays.  I bet those Stories would be Amazing.

Hmm… Speilberg involving himself with half hour morality plays.  I bet those Stories would be Amazing.

With you on that one.  Although, I'd have to admit that their longitivity leaves them as one of the only options.  I mean, is there a difference here between growing up "with" a band, and choosing a band that had a limited run to be the soundtrack to your growing up?

With you on that one.  Although, I'd have to admit that their longitivity leaves them as one of the only options.  I mean, is there a difference here between growing up "with" a band, and choosing a band that had a limited run to be the soundtrack to your growing up?

Miss Teschmacher got her own place. 

Miss Teschmacher got her own place. 

To anyone, eventually. 

To anyone, eventually. 

I liked this story better when it was "Most-loved forensic scientist on CBS" Once Rapped About Killing Cops."