If only he had used more hair gel.

Only ONE hammer metaphor? Jeez, step up your game, Dowd.

In other words, every porn movie that Ron Jeremy's ever been in.

Bring Me the Payslip of Alfredo Garcia

Fine, be different.

I'm sure I could read Bockris' bio for the true story, but when Lou says he fed chickens and cut down trees for the money to buy a guitar, I thought he grew up on suburban Long Island with an accountant for a dad. Nevertheless, this is a touching interview, and what little I did read of Bockris' book makes it clear…

Another Phantom Stranger reader—I thought I was the only one. I got pilloried here earlier for saying that I liked the title, but while the recent issues have been interesting and different, they're pretty talky and I want to see him… doing more, aside from wondering why he can't be a husband and father again.

That's not a whiskey bottle.

His 89-page paper on the subject was absolutely fascinating.

I am framing this thread and hanging it on the wall of my rumpus room.

Superhero tv shows are so easy to get wrong (looking at you, The Cape), but then you've got Arrow and hell even Smallville, so maybe a Daredevil show would work. Strange, because you'd think the episodic nature of both comics and tv would be a perfect fit. But after the Affleck movie and the Hulk TV movie with…

It's how I made my fortune—
in shivs.

[Puts on nerd glasses] Romans also liked their buff dudes hairless. But you're right, they didn't use chest wax; they had people (slaves, tradesmen, I'm not sure) called defoliators at the public baths whose job it was to pluck the body hairs out of their customers, one by one.

Loved Under Your Skin. Their best song, easy.

My pet peeves: "Upping one's game" and "taking it to another level." And the many, many variations.

Hayes and Mullaley are great performers, but their roles on this show were so broad and self-congratulatory that I never got why either characters within the show or people watching it would want to spend time with them (and Messing was more over-the-top hyperventilating than either of them). Admittedly, I only…

In what part of the Internet do you reside where members of either political persuasion have gone silent? Because I'm willing to bet that even at My Little Pony fansites you've got people raging against Obama/Ted Cruz/your congressman here.

Are we talking about Frank McCourt here?

[spits coffee across desk]

Keep in mind that ahead of that first debate, Romney was running around channeling Dan Quayle, making blunders right and left, insulting the Olympics organizers and other European hosts, and so forth. I don't blame Obama for going into that first debate thinking there was no need to prepare himself.