Dining with Doug and Karen

"I'm in bed, the next day, he brought me a nonfat pumpkin spice latte, gives me the newest Mother Jones. My nips feel like concrete."

Sometimes it's a gimmick. But sometimes it gives an entire group of brilliant creative minds the chance to absorb and change the meaning of a text that they're traditionally excluded from, and when that happens, the world is a better place.

Brass ovum has a nice ring to it…

I was tickled by the subject matter & Hodgman's delight with the parrot.

I think her laughing distracts from the fact that she can be very funny & charming. But I have a low tolerance for people laughing at their own podcasts. (I'm looking at you, We Hate Movies). Except PFT. He can laugh as much as he wants.

Yeah, I just hate it when rock stars are unstable and wild and screwed up….

No Stephen Merchant, no dice.

I know she's gets plenty of crap for her acting, but I liked her non-actor approach. Sometimes it was so refreshingly natural. 

I just rewatched Crime & Punishment/War & Peace, and I ended up obsessed with the set designer. She or he is freakin brilliant— even Jackie & Fisher's apt was so stuffed with pitch-perfect objects— the wicker-looking bookcase, the cactus on the drum, the black boom box on top of the black stereo system, the MC Esher…

So true. As a lower middle kid, it meant the world to me. The combination of showing a family that actually stressed over money, they'd do an entire show about a Sunday afternoon at home or a family trip to the mall— which is actually where a lot of the drama and lasting memories of my childhood came from.

I prefer looking forward to visits from the Rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.

I prefer looking forward to visits from the Rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.

I don't find reality stars interesting at all, however, I find her obsession with them wholly entertaining. Without her, I never would have known that matchmaker reality star Patty Stanger is made out of garbage and snakes.

I don't find reality stars interesting at all, however, I find her obsession with them wholly entertaining. Without her, I never would have known that matchmaker reality star Patty Stanger is made out of garbage and snakes.

I agree. The shows selected skew toward interviews— I tend to love the ramblers (PFT, Julie Klausner), and Smartest Man is nothing but a spectacular ramble. His 10-minute discussion of Joan of Arc in "Condors" is fantastically entertaining. And although this may scare off potential new listeners: sometimes, he reads…

I agree. The shows selected skew toward interviews— I tend to love the ramblers (PFT, Julie Klausner), and Smartest Man is nothing but a spectacular ramble. His 10-minute discussion of Joan of Arc in "Condors" is fantastically entertaining. And although this may scare off potential new listeners: sometimes, he reads…

I know that more men CONSIDER themselves funny… but…

I know that more men CONSIDER themselves funny… but…

St Clair and Lennon Parham seem to kill always all the time always.