It's astounding to me that it seems that Theo Epstein isn't getting much more credit for what he could possibly pull off here - serving as the GM who broke two of professional sports' alltime curses. I know he is seemingly universally respected in baseball, but I still feel like he flies under the radar, while other…

I checked out the album after hearing a song in a new iPhone commercial … I liked what I heard. Check it out.

Heard a song from the album in the new iPhone commercial, and liked it, as I did the rest of the album (I really like the Walkmen; Vampire Weekend I can take or leave …)

Didn't ruin it for me, but each Avengers movie seems to show more and more of the film in its endless trailers.

Yeah, I'll second that … loved the book, but Raiders of the Lost Ark it is not … it spans years and years, and ultimately [spoiler alert] they don't find the Lost City of Z. I

Oh, I think he's more than "good." I think his performance is underrated due to the green screen cartoon filmed around him.

I find myself frustrated the older I get that I just don't "get" so many critically beloved new rock bands, bands that I'm told I should love. SO many just pale in comparison to the bands I love from my youth, from the 90s.

Agreed. They could have easily recorded Hot Fuss Part 2 and left it at that. Their continued quest to try new sounds with each album is admirable.

I'm about halfway through his recent, two-hours-plus interview on the latest episode of The Nerdist … an absolute must-listen. Really great conversation.

Hey, he was always terrific on Sons, even when the show veered onto its usual ridiculous indulgent tangents …

The actual film turned out to be the least important aspect of the years-long Suicide Squad news cycle, didn't it?

Any band would be grateful to end a career on two albums as good as Accelerate and Collapse Into Now. Especially after the lousy trilogy of Up, Reveal and Around the Sun.

I have the four-issue World of Krypton series from when I was a kid, as well as "For the Man Who Has Everything" … those are two very good Krypton stories, I think.

Dumb shit like the bottled city of Kandor is what I really wish would be a part of the new Superman movies … why couldn't they have taken their aesthetic cues from All-Star Superman?

Really?! I thinks he's set himself up for the rest of his life. If he loses, he's already laid the groundwork that it was due to a rigged election, and he fils the Sarah Palin-shaped hole in dumb-ass 'murica's heart, selling books, filling speaking engagements, shrieking into every camera he sees, etc.

It's true … we're so lame …

I listened to it in my car, and that, I think, made all the difference. That book, to my mind, is a collection of rich characters in search of a story, so it was a pleasure to hear the actor who read it (Clarke Peters, the indomitable Lester from The Wire) bring each character warmly to life.

Shaded of Zoo TV there … nice!

It'll be a long way to go for any other AV Club headline to top this one this year …

I learned long ago to never, ever underestimate the next banal CBS comedy or drama that America will make into a huge hit …