Love to see these pieces on the Larry Arms. Along with Alkaline Trio (yeah, midwest/Chicago punk rock is an incestuous bunch of bands), they're the group that's been a consistent part of my life from high school to today (spanning college, graduate school, multiple jobs, a wife and now a baby). But the band has grown…

Well, Single File came out back in what, 2000? And Oh Calcutta! was 2005 … yes, it's only five years apart, but seriously I feel like the two years represent two different Americas (and styles of punk music as well). So to me it seems hard to compare the two records as from the same "era" - maybe that's just me. I was…

I have heard that California knows how to party. Is this true?

In reading a few more interviews with her, she seems to recall things a little bit different than the show suggests. In a few of the Vulture articles she makes it sound like they all knew Furman was going to be a risk, and that they understood the impact of race on the case. I would imagine a bit of that is true and a…

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I want to make a Ross joke that's like "Juice is never on a break from being the Juice!" but can't get the wording right. So I'll just be super literal about it like this, see?

I would say that "justice triumphed" in this case because the defendant was a wealthy, well-known handsome man who was able to overcome the evidence because of his previous reputation, a few lucky breaks (Furhman, the glove, etc.) and literally the best defense team money could buy.

I'd want to blow my brains out after being sequestered for a week let alone 8 months.

Me too. I was about 12, and only knew OJ as a cool football sideline guy. I obviously felt Marcia Clark was a stone cold man hating bitch who deserved everything she got for trying to put an obviously innocent black main behind bars …

The show makes Marcia Clark look like a very competent attorney, who has absolutely wrong instincts on anything cultural (hairstyles, the impact of race/gender, etc.).

WHAT'S THAT FLASHING!?

"Newark, May 17. A man yelling profanities in a park turned out to be upset about a story in the local newspaper about his recent robbery arrest. He was searched and arrested again, for illegal possession of drugs."

I also love the reaction of the anchors back in the studio. It's almost mock concern - i don't feel like real people would react that way. Even watching it now i want to gasp and be like "oh my God are you okay lady!?" and freak out. They're just like "ohh no … i think she's really hurt, yeah."

Glad I could help *hat tip*

There's no better blooper video than this one (please watch with sound on).

That's exactly right. Unions lost big in Iowa in the 1980s, and what were once middle class jobs for small town white people went to Mexicans and Central American migrants. I'm not trying to sound or be racist - I love the cultural impacts immigrants have had in the state of Iowa in the past few decades.

"You've really distinguished yourself for how you brought the Northern Territories into the fold. We have a pretty plum gig to keep moving you up the ladder - you know our paper product subsidiary? Well, we just happen to have a sales office in Scranton, Pennsylvania with your name on it."

I think KC was most likely "officially" desegregated by 1979 - it's more Midwest than South. That's not to say there wasn't a huge amount of latent racism, but there was never any Jim Crow in KC.

lackluster ending? Bullshit.

I've driven through Owatonna like 100 times on the way to MSP from Iowa. But the fact that its adjacent to I-35 really opens it up for any number of interesting crime plotlines.