THAT'S who she was!!!!  I knew she looked familiar.  Have only seen her in still pictures, from all those articles saying she's the second coming of Meryl Streep.  I have to say, she was pretty winning in this episode.

THAT'S who she was!!!!  I knew she looked familiar.  Have only seen her in still pictures, from all those articles saying she's the second coming of Meryl Streep.  I have to say, she was pretty winning in this episode.

I have that giant tome of his essays that came out shortly before his death.  It's really fun to read, but the "women aren't funny" essay is one of the weaker ones, by far.  It basically boils down to "women have babies so they care about things a lot so they can't be funny … except a few women like [examples of women…

I have that giant tome of his essays that came out shortly before his death.  It's really fun to read, but the "women aren't funny" essay is one of the weaker ones, by far.  It basically boils down to "women have babies so they care about things a lot so they can't be funny … except a few women like [examples of women…

Eh, but I get so annoyed when they repeat themselves, and they had already done a Helen Mirren-is-sexy joke quite a while back.

Eh, but I get so annoyed when they repeat themselves, and they had already done a Helen Mirren-is-sexy joke quite a while back.

Nothing can ever top "Succession" in my book.  It was just glorious for someone old enough to have walked by the poster for "Amadeus" in my local video store a bunch of times.

Nothing can ever top "Succession" in my book.  It was just glorious for someone old enough to have walked by the poster for "Amadeus" in my local video store a bunch of times.

Who's that?

Who's that?

I thought she was fucking terrifying when I was 5 or so.

I thought she was fucking terrifying when I was 5 or so.

Is it a movie?  A TV show?  A webzine?  Whatever is I'm sure the storyline will be thrill city.

Is it a movie?  A TV show?  A webzine?  Whatever is I'm sure the storyline will be thrill city.

That guy had a boombox playing sanitized … what would that have been, death metal?  My middle school music classroom had a New Yorker cartoon on the bulletin board showing an elderly lady stopping a punkishly-dressed guy with a boombox on his shoulder and saying "Good heavens, young man—I didn't know classical music…

That guy had a boombox playing sanitized … what would that have been, death metal?  My middle school music classroom had a New Yorker cartoon on the bulletin board showing an elderly lady stopping a punkishly-dressed guy with a boombox on his shoulder and saying "Good heavens, young man—I didn't know classical music…

It's the extended scenes of him doing tai chi without a shirt on that really put it over the top.

It's the extended scenes of him doing tai chi without a shirt on that really put it over the top.

Yikes.

Yikes.