The hardcover book is probably a remaindered copy from the 1990s and priced accordingly.  I think publishers try to price big name Kindle titles about the same as a trade paperback, or even a bit less, and Underworld is massive.

The hardcover book is probably a remaindered copy from the 1990s and priced accordingly.  I think publishers try to price big name Kindle titles about the same as a trade paperback, or even a bit less, and Underworld is massive.

Pilot deals get announced in the trades all the time.  They just don't usually end up on sites like this because the writers are famous.

I'll add one. Likely to be heard far too many times during his prison stay?: "Smoke my pole, Haziz!"

I think he specifically meant the hyperrational detective tradition which started with Dupin, not just crime fiction. Unless there's an Australian forebear?

It's probably one of those things where they're cheating a bit, and we need to let it slide because we want to be told a story — what Hitchcock called "the icebox question" — so I'll just let it slide. But thanks, guys.

Okay. But wasn't it nominally (but not really) a South Korean airport? Would you have to file plans for that in San Diego?

Blueprint Question
What exactly was that library where Hank et al found the "South Korean airport" blueprint by the architects of the mysterious, out of place blueprint found in Jason's papers? It looked like a library, and the guy showing them around said the blueprints were"donated." Would it be the hall of…

I just saw "Robots vs. Wrestlers" last week, and the main entrance to the apartment is on the other side, so it's not the same place. And yes, I feel like an asshole for even typing that.

I gotta be honest, that joke was a dick move. It must be tough when your life's blood is snark.

Statue of limitations then. Fifteen years is outside the SOL, right? Guys? I'm kinda banking on this.

We know it wasn't. They showed the interrupted rape victim in the police lineup.

I read Pym in a Gothic fiction class in college, and it's pretty brilliant in a lot of ways, particularly read in the context of that genre. For one thing, it utilizes the classic frame narrative of classic Gothic stuff — stories within stories, a frame surrounding an uncovered manuscript or letter — and it turns it…

"This is also, coincidentally, the secret to being the agent…"
Whatever, dude. The guy sold a script to a studio, cast it with names, got to direct it, and got it released. So what if it sucked? The agent did his job like gangbusters. You assholes should try it some time.

It's small, but I LOVE the sudden blast of Muddy Waters's "Mannish Boy" when Henry snorts coke in Goodfellas during the helicopter sequence. Or shit, the use of music in the helicopter sequence in general.

Holy shit, I just looked that up. I had no idea it existed, though I apparently saw the TV movie it spun off from, A Very Brady Christmas. DVD?

I missed it too, but I still had it on the DVR, so I just watched it again. I'm pretty sure it's Britt. He's wearing what looks like the same hoodie Britt put on when Katie "kicked him out."

Nope, Gaddis's book was The Recognitions, but I always get those titles confused.

Is that the one where Bronson blows up a drug dealer with a rocket launcher, or is that the fourth one?

Song
What was the song playing over Louie having breakfast with his daughters? Googling "shitty, shitty night" didn't help.