Gouge Away, you are right about the ATM's being well looked after, but I kind of felt like it was shenanigans that that particular ATM would have been allowed to remain outside. I've seen hundreds of those little plastic independent ATM's, but I've never seen one that was not within sight of the register for all the…

Mike is so cool. He was hesitating leaving Walt because he had seen the scythe on the pavement, and was weighing whether to lay his cards on the table about how much his intervention may have saved him, and because he was getting the lay of the land for the future. You could do a whole series about a guy like,…

Only the clean, fully focused Jesse would have even recognized the opportunity to bully that cashier with his charm. Here's a possible twist I see coming, Jesse's clean—Walt starts using. Why not? He's already out of control.

I think it's interesting to bring up the Coens in this context, because 'Road to Perdition' feels like a response or a companion to 'Miller's Crossing' in terms of style, subject matter (Irish gangsters) and treatment. There are even similar themes of love, loyalty and possible betrayal of the aging, greying boss…

I don't suppose it was an omen…
that 'Road to Perdition' is the movie my exwife and I went to see when we were on our honeymoon.

'Passion of the Christ' in slow motion
I got maybe halfway through it before deciding to watch the remainder on fast forward—which cut the time down, eliminated the egregious slow maotion, and since it was subtitled, had not effect on the dialogue. Yeah, I guess I missed out on the music, but otherwise it was an…

Yet they never answered mine (Does anyone know what that PBS show with the mustachioed pastel artist who illustrated young adult novels like 'The Outsiders', 'A Wrinkle in Time' and 'The Ghost Who Belonged to Me' was?). And if you thought that shit was boring, a coupla weeks ago the focus of this here feature led to…

I have to disagree—'Following the Equator' is a much more funny and more human version of what Twain was doing with 'Roughing It' and there is no better refutation of the context argument in relation to the discussion of race in American literature than the wicked 'King Leopold's Soliloquy'. The guy got old, the guy…

Don't call it "A Comeback".

I don't mind the feature as it is—but I miss the version of 'Ask the AVC' it replaced. I don't see why they couldn't do both somehow.

Yes it was 20 years. Exactly 20 years ago last night 'Twin Peaks' debuted. They said so on Fresh Air yesterday.

Sometimes, in a sincere but hyperbolic effort to make the case that something is not as great or important as conventional wisdom would have us believe (or at least it isn't to us), we can make an argument that goes too far in the other direction. For example, I have famously done that many times with regard to…

Well golldang, I ain't heard the old "they're just conforming to nonconformity" criticism of Punk since I was in short pants. The rebellion of Punk is cultural first and foremost and only political in some cases and then often as an afterthought. People who claim that it changed everything for better or worse are…

from the LA times:

Again, Amen.

Relax—I may have missed my mark, but I was more trying to put the snooty PBS Anglophile on the spot than the series itself (which I guess counts as collateral damage)—by which I mean that class of American who fetishizes anything British as defacto intellectual.

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Whatever you say, "Pants". I've sampled your comments after this and the Lydon interview, and it's all too clear whose side you're on, so I'm not going to try to change your mind. And yet I can't help but wonder why it matters to you that the world not accidentally give the dearly departed McLaren his due.

Andy Pants—I must respectfully disagree. Have you heard 'Cowboy', Baby Oh No', 'Louis Quatorze', 'Where's My Snake', 'Orangutan', 'See Jungle' or 'El Boss Dicho'? Even a bunch of Bow Wow Wow's post McLaren output is worthwhile ('Do You Wanna Hold Me?' and 'Roustabout' in particular). So what if Annabella Lwin was 15…

What bothers me is that all of 'Firefly' is now available on Netflix streaming—and since I only caught it piecemeal on SyFy, but loved the 'True Grit' in space aspect of the dialogue, I finally sat down and watched the whole thing last week—but in the order the episodes AIRED instead of the intended order. Why would…