Especially when the dialogue makes clear it's been five or six years.

Oz you can at least watch on HBO Go. Homicide has fallen so far down the memory hole its complete series DVD set is coming out from Shout Factory.

Playing JJJ probably reset his persona in the eyes of casting agents, etc. I remember reading an interview where he talked about auditioning for sitcoms and people recoiling when he entered the room.

DJ Request!

Math is hard.

Yeah, I am not a Brooks fan but don't think the hate this column is getting is really deserved. Unfamiliar restaurants can be incredibly intimidating sometimes.

Fair enough! Tastes vary.

Just that after the Marky Mark movie, I had very little faith that a major studio could make Apes films worth watching, especially given how weird and funky and political the original ones were.

I thought it was about people who fast-forwarded to the scenes with Mia Kirshner in them.

Good point, given the guest of honor.

I just didn't enjoy Season 2. Season 3 thus far (I'm watching it on BBCA, not via other means) is much more along the lines of what I'd been hoping for from more Broadchurch.

The gender balance of the party seemed bit odd as well — that many people you'd expect to get something closer to 50-50.

Are you telling me Samurai Flamenco is not a good way to learn about Japan?

Do I remember correctly that this included a makeup test with James Brolin and Edward G. Robinson?

But would anyone really want an ape hairdresser? The apes we see are all really, really bad at the tasks they're given.

The new Apes movies are much, much better than they have any right to be.

God exists, and She has a sense of humor.

I don't know that it's bred them so much as given them a forum to let all of their ugliness out. I try to imagine what the commenters on, say, my hometown newspaper's stories, or a YouTube video, or a Bloomberg News blog entry, must be like as neighbors, co-workers, etc. and it's just impossible for me to imagine…

Do we have any sense of when he got involved with Laura, with Shelley, with drug dealing, etc.?

Yes - it was reaching back to the kid Bobby was before he became a troubled teenager. And his delight in knowing something Frank and Hawk didn't, then sharing it with them.