Next week they're going to tell us that, before he died, Charlie was examined for a concussion and cleared to return to work by an NFL team physician.

Back in that day, I was at an Irish bar and some guy asked the bartender "Do you have any dry beer?" and the bartender (in a brogue, naturally) yelled back "NO! And we don't have any ice beer either! It's time you learned to drink like a man!"

If Miami Vice is only one season we don't get the "Crockett marries Sheena Easton but she gets killed by a drug lord in an act of revenge, sending Sonny into a dangerous spiral of self-destructive behavior, leading him to take on increasingly dangerous assignments, culminating in him going undercover as hitman Sonny…

Fun (perhaps) Facts: The video for this song was filmed from the roof of AJ Demarest Middle School in Hoboken, formerly AJ Demarest High School, whose most famous attendee was Frank Sinatra. The park across the street is Church Square Park, which appears in "On The Waterfront".

EDIT: Never mind. And you weren't seeing things, Handjob. See??? http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Shit, how will I be able to resist imbedding the Pavarotti and Lou Reed "Perfect Day" duet into every thread?

Man, the casting department is on a roll. Young Eli absolutely nailed Shea Wigham's voice and mannerisms, and (it's getting pretty fucking obvious) Older Tommy has Michael Pitt's half-stoned distracted delivery down to a T.

I hate to be that guy, but that was not a cockroach.

I finished Perfidia a couple of weeks ago (got an advance reader's copy from a well-connected friend). It pains me to say that it's pretty bad. There's a completely ridiculous "Dudley Smith's in love" subplot (wait until you find out with whom), an even worse subplot about a documentary, a character in her early 20s…

For all things Whitey, his brother, the FBI, etc., you need go no further than reading the tremendous "Black Mass", written by two Boston Globe reporters who were there when it all went down. It was written right after Whitey disappeared, so obviously nothing about his recapture or trial, but it's absolutely…

Philip Glass listened to the score and said "Jesus, this is fucking repetitious!"

I eagerly await the episode where Tywin goes to the Iron Bank to take out a second mortgage on Casterly Rock.

Yeah, that could work too, I am just figuring you have to have the dragons and the giant snow zombies (or whatever the hell they are) duking it out at some point, and having Bran help the zombies both levels the playing field re their vulnerability to dragons, and also keeps the Stark storyline front and center.

I haven't read the books, but last season when they had that scene where Bran controlled Hodor's mind and the other magical kid said "no one else can do that", I immediately said to myself "this whole thing is going to end with Bran using his Very Special Abilities to control the White Walkers and use them to lead the…

Yeah, that was awful. After the end of the episode last week, I thought the explanation was going to be that he wore a green ear-protecting headset (like the airport guys do) while riding his mower. Who the fuck gets paint on their ears?

Any Ellroy fans out there who have not heard his DVD commentary on the obscure 50's noir "Crime Wave" should rectify that situation immediately. It's hysterical.

Or as they are known in the industry, "coshmos"

I saw The Trial of Billy Jack in the theater, quite possibly on opening night. The place was packed, and when Billy Jack started taking off his shoes the crowd went nuts. That was fun.

I have been to a shit-ton of shows, and Sinatra was the most riveting performer I have ever seen, and he was fucking old and reading the lyrics off a teleprompter. The second time (of 3) I saw him, at Radio City Music Hall, he did "I've Got You Under My Skin" and the hairs on my arms stood up. That's never happened…

By all accounts I have read it was done out of necessity, not out of arrogance. By the time Duets rolled around Sinatra was not in great shape mentally and could not have handled learning a bunch of new duet arrangements. So they just brought him into the studio and had him sing his regular arrangements live with a…