It'll be National Parks and Jazz for me. Burns is just so great at making the past tangible. By the time you've seen his take on a subject it feels as natural as if you yourself have lived the history.

Reading this, I'm pretty confident Dan and Erin will make a perfectly fine married couple, despite all that really entertaining but kind of upsetting craziness that happened when Harmontown went on tour last year. Congrats to their engagement and I hope it doesn't turn out like Marc Maron's.

Absolutely. I can't speak to Goro's merits yet as I haven't seen any of his work yet, but Arrietty captured a magic as comparable to Miyazaki as any non-Miyazaki film I've seen so far.

I thought about this last year and a couple months later Roger Ebert died. :(

I hope by the time he passes he'll have instilled everything he possibly can into Goro Miyazaki and that his son can by then create works as perfect as Princess Mononoke or Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind or Spirited Away or Howl's Moving Castle or My Neighbor Tororo or Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea or Porco Rosso or…

I remember how thrilled and scared I was when I first saw the music video for "Army of Me." I'd never experienced anything quite like that before and I at once wanted to recoil and hear much more. And one of the highlights of high school for me was getting high of a waterbed with my best friend and her gay friend…

It looks like the condescending trollery going on around about Jan. 29th on this guy's Twitter timeline: https://twitter.com/DustinM…

Nebraska was pretty funny.

I think of them much like Gene Belcher thinks of Toad the Wet Sprocket: "He gave us his magic and then he disappeared. just like Toad the Wet Sprocket!"

Jawbreaker mention; take a shot.

I had so much fun playing with the Biophilia app, and I was as delighted as a child watching changing colors making noises on a TV when Arcade Fire did that "Reflektor" thing with the website, so clearly I'm a sucker for these kinds of things and I Will probably download this app.

Butthisface?

The Beef is Present.

A sample by any other sample would smell as sample.

I don't speak Japanese at all and I could be totally misremembering this, but I recall in an Anthro Linguistics class my professor saying something about the Japanese language requiring a vowel after a consonant in most cases, resulting in native-Japanese speakers adding vowels to English words (epenthesis). So,…

The show took the same characters from "Clear" (minus Morgan) and managed to deliver another largely successful episode. Even though Carl's bit was essentially the same thing Carl's been given throughout the series, I enjoyed how it played it in tonight's episode—more than when they tried it in season two when Carl…

David E. Kelley.

Question: Could anyone recommend an iOS app that sends push notifications for new episodes of television shows?

Anthropomorphizing the common cold really makes you empathize with it. I never thought of the common cold as one of Aimee Mann's many odd, downtrodden characters, but they lyrics have made the case for it well.

I've watched shows Padma Lakshmi's been in ever since she did that Globe Trekker episode over a decade ago and I'm only now noticing that scar after you've pointed it out. No doubt in part because SHE GOT THEM THAAAANGS.