Cogan's Trade (the novel this movie is based on) is perhaps my favorite crime novel — only Hammett's Red Harvest comes close. But I'm concerned about anyone adapting that 70s masterpiece into a 2012 state-of-America David Simony thinkpiece. I'll probably just queue up The Friends of Eddie Coyle again and watch that…

I can't help but wonder how that last scene between Jax and Wendy would have gone if she had been addicted to love instead of heroin.

I can't help but wonder how that last scene between Jax and Wendy would have gone if she had been addicted to love instead of heroin.

Plus, Mo Rocca's been on a pretty good run with his band The Mountain Goats.

Plus, Mo Rocca's been on a pretty good run with his band The Mountain Goats.

I only made it one minute into this album. The new Van Halen album was ten times more relevant.

I only made it one minute into this album. The new Van Halen album was ten times more relevant.

Seth was weirdly channeling Norm MacDonald on that "Yes. Colonial times." It was great.

Seth was weirdly channeling Norm MacDonald on that "Yes. Colonial times." It was great.

I quite enjoyed this episode of Survivor: Greasy Biker Trash.

I quite enjoyed this episode of Survivor: Greasy Biker Trash.

I found it awkward when I came home from college and my mom got me drunk on red wine over dinner and then popped in a copy of 'Spanking the Monkey.' I don't remember too much after that.

I found it awkward when I came home from college and my mom got me drunk on red wine over dinner and then popped in a copy of 'Spanking the Monkey.' I don't remember too much after that.

We had a partial Outsourced reunion at my family's recent reunion when my grandmother's xenophobia momentarily crossed paths with my uncle's lazy and highly derivative sense of humor.

We had a partial Outsourced reunion at my family's recent reunion when my grandmother's xenophobia momentarily crossed paths with my uncle's lazy and highly derivative sense of humor.

Meanwhile, Cowboy Bob Orton must settle for merely inspiring Tara Knowles' entire arc on Sons of Anarchy.

Meanwhile, Cowboy Bob Orton must settle for merely inspiring Tara Knowles' entire arc on Sons of Anarchy.

So going by that picture, I can assume that the Vampire Diaries features an invisible sodomizer?

So going by that picture, I can assume that the Vampire Diaries features an invisible sodomizer?

Hope he takes some time off to walk through fields of gold.