The mailbox is Halderman!

It was interesting and stylish, and the soundtrack choices were great, but it does come across a bit too much as 'pity the plight of the extremely wealthy and powerful'.

In terms of required high-school reading, I hope it at least joins 1984.

I love the Pet Shop Boys, and I really liked your Gateway. Although personally I would recommend starting with Please and going forward. But you make a good case for their later work; I'm going to give Super a listen.

As a fairly long-time reader here (and as an unapologetic liberal), I think the problem is that they haven't been delivering the goods with its pop culture content. Too many great job internets and predicable thinkpieces, not enough television coverage, and don't get me started on Back In The Day when we had TV Club…

I think scratches were a not-uncommon effect in 90s dance-pop, often to punctuate the end of a verse line. The version of Depeche Mode's 'Walking In My Shoes' that got played on radio had them.

The year HBO decided it was a good idea to simultaneously air not one but two shows about psychiatry–one that would be on every night, another whose selling point was its explicit sex scenes–was when it was clear that the Golden Age of HBO had passed. They still have some great shows (I do really like Boardwalk Empire…

Damn sorry I hurt your feelings dude

Ralph Fiennes's Coriolanus is mediocre. I stand by my point.

Yeah but it includes the lines:

The saddest part of this is that Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, it's never been properly filmed, it is relevant to contemporary events, and now I can't read it or teach it without having to address this dickhead making a racist musical out of it.

stuff that doesn't make me think, 'the affected singing and bright electronic washes means this was recorded in the late 2010s'

'If there’s a widespread problem in modern American comedies, it’s that readiness to give up a good joke for some sorry excuse for a moral about family values, friendship, being yourself, yada yada yada.'

Between the indie lady voice and the car commercial/closing credits of Girls music, this is going to sound really dated really soon.

To fair, they have spent time wondering if Mike Trout would sign with the Yankees when he becomes a free agent.

I'm broke so I would talk to the Nazis or KKK for a half mil. Though I wouldn't give them my A material.

And now apparently Doug Glanville is gone, which is disgraceful. Hopefully MLB Network hires him.

His work as a Phillies beat writer was always solid.

WIlbon got a bit too ESPN-shouty for my taste, but Kornheiser + guest host is usually pretty good.

I stopped watching ESPN after they failed to fire Curt Schilling after one of his racist/crazy rants. When they finally did fire him I realized I didn't miss ESPN's baseball coverage that much. (It doesn't help that they only seem to care about the Yankees, Red Sox, and Cubs.)