Even if it's forced gay sex?!

Hazing is such a curiously complex, conflicted, confounding issue. When I was a naive, wide eyed freshman considering pledging a fraternity I found myself debating the merits versus the drawbacks. On the plus side there's camaraderie, fellowship, social opportunities, civic involvement, historical relevance, and even…

Oh you and your attention to detail…

Yeah, I did not especially care for it, but I don't think I'd say it sucked. It just wasn't as compelling or insightful as The Wire. It had wonderful performances and interesting story lines, but it was sometimes cliched and a little self satisfied. The music was great, though.

I thought "Yankee" meant: grotesquely overpaid, intermittently performing sports personality prone to juvenile self absorption. Hmmph.

ewe Reed gude;

In Philly we have the Schuylkill River which often in the 50's-90's it did reek of rotting chum. It was basically an open sewer and industrial drainage ditch. Today it has been sort of cleaned up although it's still not OK to swim in, or even fall in momentarily.

As cities go nationally, that reasonably qualifies as mid-sized. Jeez, some people just can't see the forest for prefixes and the taken-out-of-context statistical data. Hmmph.

That is merely a purely instinctual expression of doubt and cynicism, qualities which any worthwhile journalist possesses in spades. As a longtime investigative reporter covering a thoroughly corrupt big city government David Simon simply has seen too much reality to allow himself the luxuries of hope or optimism or…

I first saw the original UK version of The Office when it was given to me on DVD by a friend who worked in the TV business on the production side. It just blew me away, how it was so full of pathos and dripping in self loathing and so thoroughly cynical. And it was also very low key, understated and non theatrical.…

You said it, Harvey!

I hate every bone in your body but mine. *wink, wink*

Ah, Chris Elliot. Chris was a regular visitor to Dave's old NBC show (I think he might have been a writer?) and then occasionally on the CBS show, and he was always preposterous. He had a few characters that he'd play, usually very sarcastically, almost annoyingly so.

Is that a Ziggy?!

It can be both things.

Everyone except for Chris Elliot, who's still waiting in his secret liar hidden beneath the audience seats at the old NBC studio. Seth Meyers thinks that the occasional sightings of Chris skulking around in the shadows are Bigfoot, or The Ghost of Comedy Past.

However, the script for Social Network was damn good. I didn't particularly care for the oppressive mood in which Fincher drenched the whole thing—largely a product of the melodramatic sparse soundtrack—but I appreciated the dialog. And the exact same thing goes for Moneyball. Great dialog but excessively depressing…

That's what I was thinking, that Fox was doing the new NBC style comedies before NBC was.

The truth is NBC didn't actually screw over Conan as ruthlessly as many people believe. Conan's audience and Jay's audience were fairly separate and distinct entities, and so when Conan took over the show many long time Tonight Show viewers stopped tuning in. Jay's 10 o'clock show may not have provided as big of a…

My mother was not a big fan of 30 Rock or even Seinfeld but she loved The West Wing, so seriously, how good could The West Wing be? She also luuuuuvs Two and a Half Men and NCIS Los Angeles, which doesn't help your cause, either. Hmmph.