Kill this Manperson with fire!

And he got away with it because he had money. There shouldn't be a different set of rules for rich, brilliant people.

The actor's name is Sam Heughan.  Gabaldon has said that she thinks he's perfect, so we'll see. I actually think the harder part to cast is Claire. Anyway, I just saw that they cast Tobias Menzies to play Frank AND Jack Randall.  I really like the actor, but I don't see him at all in those roles. Those characters are…

I can't wait for this either. The first three novels in that series were just pure fun to read (the last few, not so much — Gabaldon badly needs an editor). I really hope they manage to hit the right tone. It can't take itself too seriously, but it can't give in and be campy either. Did you see they just cast Jamie?

I just replied to a sincere and respectful comment on the death of a music legend, made by a person who goes by the handle "B.M. Fahrts". I think I'm going to bed now.

I noticed he hadn't been on the show lately (I don't get to tune in often). Assumed he was ill, knowing he was pretty elderly. Sad though. That show introduced me to a lot of music I'd never heard of before.

Thanks for that link!

This made me think of my 4-year-old, who adores Justin Townes Earle's "Harlem River Blues", which is about a guy bent on committing suicide.  Hearing his baby voice sing, "dirty water's gonna cover me over and I'm not gonna make a sound" always creeps me out.

"It's way up here!"

A Dawes song actually came on the (Sirius) radio the other day while I was driving, and I had this weird "worlds collide" moment when I saw the band's name on the screen, like I'd forgotten it was a real band and not just an AV Club inside joke.

@avclub-7cbaf9384cf3835106bf2f444c0bcf65:disqus : I understand the reasons you laid out. If AT had been around back when I was in high school or college, I probably would have rooted for the relationship purely for "social-justicey" reasons. (Which older me thinks are bad reasons to do anything in a work of fiction).…

I guess I'm in the minority, but I thought this episode sucked. This might have to do with the fact that I'm not the biggest Marceline fan. She's 1000 years old and she acts like a teenager……it's probably due to the fact that I'm old as fuck, at least compared to the show's core demographic, but I am rarely…

I see your point about the father-son relationship, but I saw this as a consequence of the son growing up. George Michael, with his apparent successful business and hot girlfriend, morphed from someone who needed Michael to take care of him, to a rival who showed up all Michael's failures. This kind of rivalry fits in…

He's thirty.

"In My Life": a song that becomes so much more poignant when sung by a man who's actually nearing the end of his life.

I show that clip to my US History students, in a pathetic attempt to make them think I'm young, hip and cool. By far the biggest laugh-getting line is "Alexander Hamilton shot Alexander Hamilton…Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton".

The Old Maid …. thanks for making me remember this. I have to go bawl now.

I like that he can conveniently make his mouth appear wherever a donut is.

Roger's father built that company — the Sterling in the name refers to Sterling Sr.  Don is still an outsider in that sense.

People in those towns cross the street if WHITE people from Hartford dare to approach them. What you've got going on in the area is as much class prejudice (and a belief that everything that comes out of Hartford is somehow tainted) as racial prejudice.