Amazing

He made a lot of really good songs and albums, and he anticipated the modern shape-shifting pop star while making music worth engaging with (unlike Madonna and Gaga, two of those most obviously indebted to his gameplan).

Maybe my empathy sensors are more (or less) finely calibrated than the norm, but I didn't take "Argo" as being about heroes vs. villains.  You want decent people to get home, and you want the protagonist to save everybody, but the situation they're stuck in seemed more political (almost like a force of nature that no…

Arrgh, yeah.  I'm just now reading the Fire and Ice books and while I enjoy them, if I read one more mention of boiled leather (or Tyrion "smiling crookedly") I'm gonna murder Martin myself.  He also does love his adverbs, which is the thing that prevented me from reading these books before now; it took getting…

I didn't realize he was that old.  Wow.  Loved the guy, read most of his books.  This season of "Justified" will be a bit depressing.

You realize Jack was being sarcastic, right?

That is the actual and correct usage of the phrase, yes.  ""What fresh hell is this" is a sentence with meaning; "what in the fresh hell" is not.

They should have just add Trinity eat him or something.  Then at least the next episode and a half would have been interesting with Dexter being all mad, until they forgot all about it.

"What in the fresh hell" is not an expression.  Please don't start making it one.  It makes no sense.  

That bit was kind of silly - though not implausible, as far as I know.  But I was referring more to Dexter having to escape suspicion while having a boat in the exact area they were looking at, having evidence on the corpses they pulled up, and so forth.  The writers back then seemed to be from the Vince Gilligan…

No, I agree completely with you.  I think Walt really and truly has decided that killing a family member is going too far.  That also probably means Jesse is safe (of course there are numerous previous indicators of that anyway - for all his selfish monstrousness, Walt has protected Jesse several times when it would…

@Robinson_Crudite:disqus  I feel like the show has mostly stayed away from that angle because it's hard to dramatize it within what is a fairly small, contained universe that has been established.  "The Wire," it ain't.  Metaphorically, the polarizing plane crash in S2 basically stands in for the drug casualties. …

Shut up, fatso.

That bugged me too.  The UFC episode is still funny, but as a conclusion to a somewhat serious arc, it really lacks.  I don't buy for a second that the guy who pursues Monica that fervently for all the previous episodes would cast her aside just so he can get stomped in something he'll self-evidently never excel at.

You LITERALLY pissed yourself laughing?

So, I'm a genius when I tell them this whilst hanging around the McDonald's play area, right?  Because it totally works - they get in my van at a pretty good clip.

They would have if the internet existed back then and thus gave them any knowledge of the fact that Led Zeppelin were stealing songs right and left.

Incorrect.  Far too often, the weapoms-grade snark is aimed at targets that don't deserve it, simply because snark is what sells (er, motivates clicks) on this site.  For once it's a pleasure to see a 100% worthy victim fall into O'Neal's sights, and he did not disappoint or puss out; instead he blazed away like one…

This is his masterpiece.

That's because anyone my man meat has touched, even through the computer screen, is tainted for life, and I refuse to put my knob on Topher Grace.  Something about him, I dunno, creeps me out or somethin'.