There's certainly a virulent strain of "Ross. Hackney, Halfback" in it. But as I said in the review, I find that more charming than irritating.

It's true — the last few chapters are masterful. And I doubt it's just runners who'd think so.

It was great, as were the "I'm pregnant, no you idiot I'm not pregnant" moments. I was a little disappointed when Barney freaked out at the thought of Robin pregnant. Wouldn't that whole in-love thing change that reaction?

I find it a little disturbing when the Wii Fit asks my children if they notice I've been looking "more toned."

Fixed! And thanks. You're my proofreadin' cuz.

It's the other way around; the West Wing smackdown was based on a previously existing Dr. Laura smackdown circulated via e-mail.

This guy is a really, really good writer. In fact, the whole time he's writing about working in Martha Stewart's operation, I just wanted to scream at him: "What the hell are you doing marking time and wondering about your destiny! Start writing already!"

I don't have a memoirs-are-superior attitude, but if it makes any difference to you, this really reads like fiction — in the sense that the prose is so well crafted and the characters are so precisely drawn.

The chapter is isolated — it doesn't go anywhere. The sexual abuse is only stated in the last sentence, and never referred to again. So it comes off like a cheap trick — too many memoirs have played that card already, so you've got to go big or leave it on the cutting room floor, in my opinion.

Unfortunately for Catholic up there, Jesus rose early Sunday morning. All four Gospels make a point of saying that the women went to the tomb very early on the first day of the week, as soon as the Sabbath was over.

The thrills may not come directly from politics, but WAGES OF FEAR is plenty political, what with the colonialism and the economic slavery and so forth.

The explosion was a completely surprise to me. And while I recognized that "Duck and Cover" snippet (which I first came across in ATOMIC CAFE), the turtle connection didn't register. So kudos to the two commenters who picked it up!

Well, I wrote about it briefly a few weeks ago when the video was first made available on the AMC website.

Anyone who uses "tolerably" in a one-sentence comments-board post is going to enjoy P&P with or without Z.

Noel points out that my enjoyment of the episode might be influenced by that Chicago Tribune column, which really gives me a good feeling that the writers are on top of things and we're moving toward some satisfactory developments. But honestly, I laughed like a maniac at this episode. It was zippily paced,…

There's a hyperlink. It's hard to see, but it's there.

What's so bad about it? The advance copy I got had "Diciple" [sic] on the spine, but I actually thought the cover art was pretty striking.

Not only read it but also reviewed it.

He goes in with that attitude, but is disabused of it very quickly. Although some things remain strange, he ends up perplexed and saddened by them, not anthropologically titillated.

Very well said, and accords perfectly with the way the behavior of Christians affected Lobdell's adherence to Christianity. Kierkegaard is my hero, too, by the way.