I don't know you, Mrs. Langdon Alger, but in this situation is it the ridiculous rate at which you read, or the fact one can knock out any book in the Hunger Games series (or Divergent, for that matter) in a couple of hours?

Excuse me, they *have* a name. A stupid, stupid name. They're Muttations.

I'm just gonna go find a grain machine…

Also, you can't have an eye that lazy and be an effective killer.

Hear, hear, Handjob. I was surprised and disappointed that not only was there no map of Armada in China Mieville's "The Scar" but that apparently Mieville came out shortly thereafter and said that he "fucking hated maps" and would never feature another in his books again. All this despite "Perdido Street Station's"…

You know why he's got two holes in the back of his head? It's cause he's got one big heart.

Is it really obligatory? What about the joke itself makes it an obligation for you? Further, if it is, in fact, obligatory, why not just leave it unsaid? If its presence is an obligation unto itself, wouldn't most people just infer it anyway without your calling attention to it?

I'll never quite understand redesigns like this. I suppose the idea is to streamline, stay modern, innovate…but in this case, I'm not seeing the upside to a site design that mimics the counter intuitive design of Windows 8.

I disagree. I feel that every time Mindy's not on screen, the viewer should be asking, "Wait, why the fuck am I watching Mindy Kaling's shallow ode to romantic comedies? I could be doing anything else right now."

For Your Further Consideration: Theme Songs Designed to Encapsulate Feel of Show, Serve as Recognizable Signifier.

I believe that's implied.

Hear, hear. Yeah, The Wonder Years without Cocker…is tough. I can't imagine what the rest of the show is like sans the original soundtrack. It's vital! Even lesser-loved shows like Wiseguy and Homicide: Life on the Street have suffered, and they were lucky to get DVD releases at all, let alone some special release if…

Right? I wanted to get my nostalgia on with some Wonder Years (and Jesus, that's a real tesseract of rose-colored glasses, isn't it? A show designed to trigger warm feelings in Baby Boomers also ends up snaring their kids) but the awful MIDI-esque cover of the theme jarred so violently I couldn't watch any of it.

If it softens the blow any, I had just finished watching an episode of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and that was more directed towards FitzSimmons than anything else.

It was the darts in her shirt, not her nips. And yeah, I was watching that closely. (Also, if we're going down the Virtual Sexual Harassment of Made Up Characters road, can we please get Rosa in something a little clingier than a cashmere garbage bag and a motorcycle jacket?)

Oh, come, come, Brax…you don't like strained nerd signifiers tumbling from mouth of an adorable redhead who speaks every line through what sounds like a broken a jaw and never alters her delivery? For shame, Brax. For shame. How are we supposed to know the writers like the same nerdy shit we do unless they craft a…

Waltmobile, really? That's awesome. I've been kind of jumping around Season 1 (thanks largely to what Holodeck was getting at re: jelling story arc) but I'm thrilled to hear that it'll be unadulterated for the rest of run. Insofar as that goes, so I can get to Season Two faster, outside of the pilot, the season…

So I've been hearing excellent things about this show, and I want to get into it, but after trying to catch up on Netflix, I discovered that — much like The Wonder Years — all the licensed songs have been scrubbed from the soundtrack. From what I understand, Supernatural without the broadcast soundtrack is hardly…

Actually, no. I thought he might have had a hand in it too, turns out it was mostly Bruce Willis, Bruce Willis's ego, and some sycophants Bruce Willis hired to smooth out the kinks.

I really enjoyed this write up. I think you nail precisely the problems that plague "Last Action Hero" (the indistinguishable line between Danny's reality and Jack's, the lack of any kind of lesson, for lack of a better word) and why those problems don't quite matter (both worlds are meant to be artificial, the whole…