for realz.  I thought "well, I guess they just repeat these clips every year now?"  I thought it was a pretty crappy show, Billy's jokes seemed rarely to land, and I fell asleep.

The Two Escobars = must watch.  And since basketball seems to be your flavor, Two Brothers is pretty great (though overproduced)…about Vlade Divac and Drazin Petrovic's relationship being severed by the Serb/Croat war.  Really interesting stuff, and moving.

In cleaning, I found about a dozen or so issues of GI Joe that hadn't made it to storage last time, plus a Superman and Captain Marvel.  Man, GI Joe was a shitty comic.

"man I love being a dad" - we played a board game last night for the first time in my daughter's life, and she sat on my lap quietly watching us move and roll etc.  And all I thought was how I can't wait til she's old enough to play with us.  Being a dad is awesome.

I have watched both…kind of hard to compare them.  Spartacus is excellent in a different way than Rome.  I don't want to say it's cartoonish, because that sounds like I'm slighting it, but Spartacus most definitely splashes blood all over the walls.  But yeah, the production value is high, and accurate-ish.  Bigger in…

and Publisher, I completely agree with your BoB assessment.  I can (and have) watched that series a dozen times over.

well writ…but there was indeed something similar that really happened.  Google the Niland Brothers.

in addition to being extremely well-written and fun, its core sadness at the end just destroys me…yet it ends up being hopeful somehow.  And Judi plays the best queen ever in film anywhere.

Good Burger gets not nearly enough respect.  If you can't enjoy Good Burger, you're in a bad, bad way.

We're going to France this summer (never been), and I wanted to avoid Paris altogether because I feared it would ruin whatever good impressions I'd form.  But then, it's fucking Paris, and you kind of have to see it, if you're going over.

I finally finished all my fall release games - Uncharted 3, Skyrim, and Arkham.  And I can't fucking wait for SSX tomorrow, and then FINALLY getting Mass Effect 3 the week after.

I think women and seamen don't mix.

I tried to use Twinkie the Kid in a game of Celebrity, and was vetoed because nobody knew who he was.  I quit in protest, then got drunk.  So really it was a day like any other.

and bedbugs.  BEDBUGS!

I don't know how I feel about that.

I hate it when I have to yell hat a motherfucker. But when shit go down, motherfuckin yell hat be in play.

so…is it Jersey or Connecticut?

I stand corrected.

yes.  exactly like air france.

"…watch their eyes to see where they are going…"