"The biggest problem with being a critic is that you have to see so much stupid, routine shit, and it's hard to come up with new things to say about it."

The Zune: It's crackalackin'.

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Damn, I had "nineteenth century" turned on accidentally on that last post. Man, I have to get a degree or I'm never going to get out of this basement.

Shortsighted Fools!
You'd fill this job in a moment were it not for your pedantic, antediluvian requirements of "experience" and "a degree." Can you not sense, even through this wan, attenuated ghost of a medium, my transcendent mastery of this style you dare to call AP?

That's why this article was so great. It told me just enough about the movies that I can now be sure I don't want to see them. Before, I had the lingering doubt that they might have some sort of redeeming facet, but no. Thanks, Sam!

Pete has an accent? I don't believe you. He has a manner, perhaps, which as far as I can tell springs from his deep insecurity and need to impress others rather than any regional or even class accent. You want upper-crust NY on that show, listen to Bert Cooper, who probably has the closest take. Vincent Kartheiser…

When my dad worked on Mad. Ave. in the 50s and 60s, they didn't have real doors on the offices. They had sort of gate things that you could close, but they weren't solid — kind of a compromise between old-fashioned offices and the modern cube farm. So the Sterling Cooper set is kinda sorta period accurate, in the…

"Craig Ferguson mentioned that it was a specific town on his TV program (CBS on weeknights), but I can't remember what it was."