In the intro to his short story collection "Slow Learner", he wrote "The next story I wrote was The Crying of Lot 49, which was marketed as a 'novel,' and in which I seem to have forgotten most of what I thought I'd learned up until then."  I think it's mostly self-deprecation, though I'm not sure if he more…

Is it really that confusing?  Both halves are priced as if they contain 8 episodes, which they do.  I guess Apple (and all the rest) could've offered an actual full season pass for twice as much and people would've been slightly less inconvenienced and annoyed?  But then how would Apple know that the second half would…

AFAIK, Hodgman got his "start" writing the "Ask a Former Professional Literary Agent" column for McSweeney's back in the early aughts (of course, his real start was as a professional literary agent).  From August 2000:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/a…

If Gus was really a Mary Sue, he would've succeeded where David Simon failed—-he would've convinced the Sun to turn over 80% of their resources to reporting on the drug trade.  But he didn't.  He didn't even leave the Sun to write a book about it and then create a show about it.  It was barely on his radar at all.

If Gus was really a Mary Sue, he would've succeeded where David Simon failed—-he would've convinced the Sun to turn over 80% of their resources to reporting on the drug trade.  But he didn't.  He didn't even leave the Sun to write a book about it and then create a show about it.  It was barely on his radar at all.

I think "favors as currency" is a pretty universal human condition.  I bet you'd have no trouble finding some anthropology dissertations about it.  Check out Graebner's "Debt:  the First 5,000 Years" for some not-too-technical discussion.

I think "favors as currency" is a pretty universal human condition.  I bet you'd have no trouble finding some anthropology dissertations about it.  Check out Graebner's "Debt:  the First 5,000 Years" for some not-too-technical discussion.

It looks like John Doman (Maj. Rawls) plays Rodrigo Borgia/Pope Alexander VI in this.  So that's a thing.

#VanDerWerffProblems
Even Todd has only a finite number of hours in the day (granted, he has more than most of us).

Also:  I don't think it had much to do with real comedians Seinfeld knew.  They were mocking NBC for using Seinfeld as a lead-in for bad shows.

If that's how you define "main character", then this series is going to have a *lot* of main characters.  Including some whose "three or four scenes" span four or five seasons, with no appearances at all in two of those seasons.

I enjoyed all of BSG, but I thought Ron Moore's biggest mistake was turning it into a mystery-oriented show.  It really wasn't mystery-heavy until they introduced the idea of the Final Five Cylons.  Up to that point there was the one central question—-are they going to find Earth, and if so, where—-but that wasn't…

I started watching it in S2.  To this day I still haven't seen S1, though I've seen all the rest of the show.  I gather there are some good/important episodes, but I followed everything fine for the most part.

Will someone explain to me why this bill that will never hold up as a law has become the big issue for internet activists, as opposed to all the actual real things that curtail civil rights and have actually passed or have a realistic chance of passing into law?

There is no perfect voting system.  It's a mathematical fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

At the end of Batman Begins, Gordon comes this close to putting the blame for the Joker's emergence directly on Batman.  It was pretty clear then that Nolan was going for something more subtle, and I thought the Dark Knight followed through very well.

There aren't very many people who have done things as bad as Polanski.  It's actually not that hard to keep them all in mind and avoid their work.

To be fair, Ned Stark would be in the 1% too.  I think Davos is the only POV character that wasn't born into the 1%.

I wish there was an option for "I don't care because I don't live in Todd's tachyon field that grants him more than 24 hours in a day and so there's no way I'll be able to keep up anyway".

Murray played both types pretty convincingly in Rushmore.