Actually, MSG HD was just added to Verizon today.

I think the one thing that hockey fans overlook as a reason for its unpopularity is the 2 intermissions.  That's 35 minutes of dead time in the middle of the game - it's a lot to overcome.  It's a shame that because of the deteriorating playing surface it can't be played in 4 quarters.

I think the NHL has a hard time selling fighting and brutality because it's traditionally a poor television sport and it needs people to go to games to succeed.  The perception is that people and/or corporations willing to pay $120 a ticket aren't really the sorts who can outwardly enjoy gladiator-style entertainment.

Roger Ebert thought so too - his review is a pretty good piece of comedy criticism.  http://tinyurl.com/735upbv

She was simply all over the place - it's not that her arc isn't believable, it's that the writers couldn't find enough time to make her transformation a real thing.  The more I watch Boardwalk Empire, the more I think that they should spend less time with about half the characters and drop half the monologues.  The…

Even fictional Eastwood films are loaded with cliches - I can only imagine how poor an Eastwood-directed biopic would be.

No, the reason why torrents exist is because people like getting things for free they'd normally have to pay for.

Read some of David Sims's Seinfeld writeups.

In context, it comes off as 'There's no chance I will vote for Bush' since obviously the Israel-Palestine conflict is intractable.  But yeah, I agree that he's probably not super liberal.

I wondered how Colbert would be without the easy target of President Bush in the White House, but he's adapted.  Some of his The Word's are weak - they're no longer really in the "Stephen Colbert" voice, but rather Colbert as a liberal.  But all in all, it's still a strong show.  The versatility of the Colbert…

I heard the first 20 minutes of this special in October 2009 (including the 'I want all the ham' bit), and they were pretty much intact on Finest Hour.

It has a payoff in the end - the Lassie bit - but I found it way too broad.  Count me on Sims's side for once.

Even on the take they do use, you can see Jerry breaking into a laugh.

Looking over the tracklist, '20 Birthdays….' goes on too long (the original premise is hilarious, the explanation of what you can do as an old person is overlong and leads into his anti-Bush stuff which is also weak), and so does the bit about George Lucas - again, amazing premise, less than stellar payoff.  A lot of…

I don't think Oswalt has ever released an album that I'd consider great from start to finish - there's always a bit that seems more about Patton demonstrating his ability with words and references than actually being funny.  That said, I think Finest Hour ranks right up there with his best.

Fred Wolf gets a lifetime pass because he was a credited writer on 'Dirty Work'.  That is all.

'Built For Comfort' seems a little too luxury car slogan to be a porn title.

Not entirely sure if you're serious, but Phil claims to remember watching Season 1 Cheers episodes when they were aired, so there's a good chance that he was in his mid 20s when Growing Pains was on.  I don't really think he missed very much there.

I was mostly downloading electronic/'IDM' music when I used Napster - I thought those hiccups were part of the song.

His name was Neil, but yes. Gene is the bizarro world Costanza.