Wut!? Was he supposed to be Brady? Would have gone a long way to making sure he wouldn't be typecast, I guess. Also, Brendan Gleeson is inspired casting for Hodges. He is who I pictured in my head the entire time. Much in the same way that I envisioned Alan Rickman as Snape.

So was Benjamin Franklin. Now they have TWO things in common!

MAN, those glasses make him look like his grandpa!

How nice for the U.S. that they put a Ben Franklin impersonator at the end of the line for the White House.

Once, I interviewed a woman who played tournament level scrabble with Kinsella. They were in the same category, so they often played each other. She showed him my finished story at one tournament and he sent her back with a handwritten note encouraging me to keep writing. It was very cool. And I promptly put it in a…

You can get a Smarties McFlurry still though, right?

It's the Skor blizzard. Which is the best.

Nothing better than Ruffles all dressed chips with salsa.

ET ate Reeces Pieces, which, I recently learned from the podcast How Did This Get Made?, are in some regions of the U.S., pronounced REESIES PIECES.

In Saskatchewan, to. I would've thought that went out to cut down on packaging, but nope! Still there in the ol' Co-op.

I get my mom to mail me Old Dutch All Dressed chips from the prairies because they're the only flavour I can't find with any regularity in Ontario. They also hurt my mouth, but they hurt so gooooood!

Lay's Ketchup chips are garbage. I SNEER at them when I see them on the shelf.

He has also starred with Polley before. He had a very memorable turn in Don McKellar's great Canadian apocalypse movie Last Night.

Patterns are of the devil. Who needs such cheap, tawdry decoration?

When in reality, they can't enjoy it anymore because it was cancelled.

Man, you're right!

The thing I always remember him for on Homicide is this exchange between Crosetti and Lewis in the toilet:

I saw him do the full thing in Toronto and it was kind of cool because The River is my favourite album, but man, the second half of that record is just like "Who wants to get real low? I mean, like, REAL low? Just really fucking slow and depressed. But in a beautiful, sad way?" Usually, the answer is: "Me! I do,…

IT'S really unnecessary.

If there was any justice in the world, Thrush Hermit would've been bigger.