I love this news … it seems like it is de riguer these days to slag on Marvel movies as staid, or formulaic, or no-fun, for some reason, but they continue to cast these movies terrifically again and again …

I think that this show has actually secured a second season … which is beyond me. Perhaps I'm biased as a high school teacher, but the clips I've checked out online seem to wallow in the absolute laziest, tired "Bad Teacher" tropes, while pretending to be something edgy …

Singles and Beautiful Girls hold a special place in my heart …

It's an oldie but a goodie, but check out "For the Man Who Has Everything." I think its from 1985, and I believe Alan Moore actually wrote it (I could be wrong …). It's included in the hardcover version of "Whatever Happened to …" and this week's episode of Supergirl is actually an adaptation of the story. It also was…

Kyle Chandler or Jon Hamm, I would think …

All Star Superman is just about everything that's right with Superman …

I thought Fargo played out like a well-written novel, and therefore I appreciated the elegiac epilogue, as I would if it were at the end of a novel.

… or, come up with a bunch of new Beowulf adventures from the missing 50 years between when he killed Grendel's mother and became king, to when the dragon part of the story picks up.

"I LISTENED!"

I agree with all of this, including your opinion on Fargo. S2 is up there with Mad Men as the best TV ever produced.

Hartford? I saw them last tour in Hartford, and the same thing happened - they played about three more songs, including Indifference, with the house lights on.

Their live shows are as good as advertised - 2+ hours, a different setlist every night, the possibility of hearing any song that they have ever recorded … they get better with age.

"[T]he intervening years have aged the heroes …" IN Gillian Anderson's case, backwards. She and Julia Louis Dreyfus are more stunning now than when they were on their hit 90s shows.

Christ, that would really be the epithet on America's gravestone, right?

Oh, I'd go further, and put Tom into nastier, more sociopathic territory …

Charlie Rose interviews Sean Penn about his interview with El Chapo … I mean, despite it only being January, I gotta imagine that there won't be a crazier string of words this entire year, right?

How 'bout a little something called the Singles soundtrack? I still love most of those songs.

Oh, Jesus, how could I forget! That Season is more damning of American inner-city public education than any documentary I can think of.

Which, again, is why I think All Star Superman is such a winner. It incorporated all the crazy, wonderful Silver Age Superman stuff into a story that still managed to make Superman seem relevant.

Ugh … as a teacher, the only television/cinematic portrayals that get somewhat close to what the profession is like were some of the early episodes of Boston Public (before it quickly went off the rails into a teaching-crisis of the week and hooking up with kids and coworkers soap opera); and, believe it or not, Ryan…