I haven't seen "Southland", but that picture makes C. Thomas Howell look a lot like Christopher Lloyd, which is fucking strange.

I'm not entirely sure why, but my all time biggest laugh from this show came towards the end of the scene between McGurk and Melissa involving his personals ad, where he asks her to read it back. "Sophis…sophistip…"

I'm not entirely sure why, but my all time biggest laugh from this show came towards the end of the scene between McGurk and Melissa involving his personals ad, where he asks her to read it back. "Sophis…sophistip…"

I'm really enjoying how prominent a theme the "Adventure Time" writers are making out of Finn bearing witness to the emotional turmoil of (slightly) more mature characters. Marcelline's relationship with her father, as well as with her manipulative jerk boyfriend, the Ice King's secret origin, and Princess Bubblegum…

No, see, I don't think it's college freshman style philosophical wankery. The term "meta" in this context is only accurate in a very technical sense. Morrison isn't just using the trick of making a text comment upon itself. He's positing that Superman and Flex Mentallo are actually no-shit real entities.

I read "Flex Mentallo" when it was orignally published, then lost the issues during a move several years ago. The interesting thing about re-reading it now is discovering how much it resembles "All-Star Superman" in superconcentrated form. They're both outgrowths of Morrison's belief in magic as such: the guy really…

BMO's little game of pretend was startlingly similar in tone to a four year old mimicking the adults he or she knows. I guess I thought he had a firmer grasp on the larger context than that.

Yes, that's correct. Nancy gets a pass.

I was thinking of Frank, Jr. As depicted by the Friedman brothers in some particularly vicious caricatures.

Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan, to pick two artists from entirely different ends of the pop music spectrum, both had children who managed to get a couple of singles released by trading on their names. They were…not as good as the material their parents put out.

I don't think there's a single show that you're not currently covering that needs to be covered as badly as "Adventure Time".

Right, but you don't really get a sense that Dickens ENDORSES Scrooge's viewpoint.  Entirely the opposite.

Well, Jesus Christ, I DID say I'm old. You can probably lay my failure to recognize "Spy" as horrible at the feet of encroaching senility. I just remember laughing like hell when they made reference in one of their columns to "wee entomological curiosity Swifty Lazar." That shit was funny.

Damn it…
I was well into the comments section before understanding that this article was about "Spin" rather than "Spy". In the time it took that understanding to coalesce, I went from thinking, "Great…that'll be some excellent reading material to wade through over the next few weeks" to thinking,"Spin? Isn't that…

Since it's my selection that you're calling out by name, FOHWG, I'll just say…well, shit, I did say my choices were a little odd. I wasn't just listing things that make me cry, I was listing things that made me cry that don't seem likely to have the same effect on most other people.