Perfect example.

You jest, but her stint on Parks and Rec has convinced me that there is nothing that cannot be improved by the addition of Tatiana Maslany.

Dammit, I was going to point that out. Now I have to find some other way to scratch my pedantry itch today.

I really liked Claire Danes as Beth, coming off of My So-Called Life and bringing a lot of the qualities that made Angela Chase such a memorable character. Not to mention using the crumple-face cry to great effect.

I don't think that opinion is all that unpopular. It's my favorite version and I usually watch it every year around Christmas.

I find it kind of charming that even in the 19th century artists were rolling their eyes at fans and grudgingly altering their work to avoid dealing with the crap they'd get.

I actually upvoted for use of the apostrophe before I saw this. I enjoy old-timey spellings when they don't feel like hipstery affectation.

Ahh, Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters. The
Citizen Kane of alarmist TV-movies. Starring Hanks,
fresh from Bosom Buddies and flexing his dramatic
muscles for the first time, and Chris "What ever happened to
that dude?" Makepeace. A true classic.

Oh, I'm going to see Juliana. I debated for all of 30 seconds before deciding that. But I may have one less friend after this, so she'd better appreciate it.

Dammit…I heart Juliana and will go see her anytime I can, but they're playing Portland on the same night I promised my friend I'd go see his band, and I've flaked out the last ninety jillion times he's invited me.

Isn't that just a Liverpudlian thing? John dragged it out a few times as well, e.g. on "Polythene Pam" and "Maggie Mae".

I absolutely adore "On the Wings of a Nightingale", the song he wrote for the Everly Brothers.

It's all about Stu Sutcliffe. He was sensitive and tragic! If he'd lived in an earlier time he totally would have had consumption.

This came out in 1971, when I was six years old. It's the first "grownup" song I remember liking. More the "Admiral Halsey" part than the "Uncle Albert" part—it was the trumpet line and the blaring "Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaands across the water" chorus that I dug.

I'm looking at that picture and she is so goddamn fucking adorable that I can't decide if I want to shower her with little kittycat kisses or punch her really hard in the tit, because come on.

While we're at it, I'd like to call Mr. Stevens out for identifying "laying" as "an irregular verb form". It's true that "to lay" is an irregular verb in that the preterite form is "laid" rather than "layed", but "laying" is just the stem plus the participial suffix -ing. Nothing irregular about that.

Ugh, I know. I run in my Giants cap all the time. I'm sticking with it. We can still turn this season around!

I started watching with Season 3, and one of the things that hooked me was the lesbian subtext between Buffy and Faith. I figured the show would never go beyond that subtext. When "Doppelgangland" aired, I remember thinking how cool it would be if Willow actually were a lesbian, but again, I never expected anything to…

[Boobies?]

Sunnydale was in SoCal, and she prefers "slayer". "Killer" makes her sound like she paints clowns.