It puts the lotion on it's skin
The background shot above of the AV Club offices looks a bit like Buffalo Bill's basement. Put some of your hoards of gold coins into redecorating, for Cripes sake.

Bow ties & granny glasses

Order Up
Give me a Stoli and Virgin's Blood, barkeep!

Can I be Mrs. Jefferson? I've always liked Mrs. Jefferson.

The Thurman Munson biopic is begging to be made.

I'll give her some peacock feathers in her hair…

Or 'Mind of the Married Man'. Or '227'. Or 'Family Matters'.

Oh, but the warm delight of butter and honey nestled in those nooks and crannies is well worth the horrible burns.

Fabulous!! Fierce!!

This is a great idea. America is indeed a fine country!

My bitch can't get enough waffles.

Nothing intended. I didn't even realize I was a first. Kismet I guess.

Yes, Ladykillers & Intolerable Cruelty - Burn After Reading, for that matter, all left me wanting. It's the Coen Brothers, for God's sake, and each left me wanting.

Norman Lear
changed television. He brought to my young suburban white mind a different world view. Life in the projects, single mothers, abortion, rape, racism and more…..my first view into these topics came from frim unconventional sitcoms. I believe I'll be purchasing this boxed set.

Yes. And Eli's gentle behavior with Hakan before she drains him from the hotel ledge speak to the reciprocation of that love.

By the time I turned 18, Drunk, I had learned the hard lesson that the goodness I assumed was in the world and other people was nearly always never there - or at least I became blind to it. The innocence and beauty I saw into things in my childhood became blurred and gone.

Falling Hakan
The shot of Hakan falling from the hospital window and striking the darkness of the dumpster, thudding into the whiteness of the snow, ranks right up there for me in some of the best images I've seen put to film.

I agree. A great read Tasha.

Swedish Cinema
Caught the film On Demand this weekend and wow - deeply moving and unsettling. I highly recommend it.

But why does something like that need to be communicate the instant it's thought? Twitter seems a bit OCD. Perhaps this sort of technology is indicative of man's increasing feelings of meaninglessness in an ever growing world and perhaps, by blurting out their love of pasta sauce or crocs or whatever it makes them…