but isn't renner also supposed to be taking over the mission impossible franchise when tom cruise drops out?

there is a real difference here.
moore's appropriation of these characters was using them as a jumping off point to say something new about them, about their context, and about literature.
the watchmen prequels are not doing anything new.  they are merely trying to continue what moore has already done but without his…

<serious> i have made very similar arguments for the value of reading single issue comic books as they are published.  one additional, irreplaceable element is the way you as a person grow and develop as the series unfolds.  you change as the series does, and the two processes are linked.
when i was in high school and…

that's the Jewish new year, which is based on a lunar calendar which is modified by the solar calendar every few years, when they repeat the month of Adar. that's how the new year is always in september/october, whereas in the muslim calendar, the holidays shift through the solar calendar, since it's a pure lunar…

i think it was "luxury, desSert, i'm a warrior poet, man!"

you're not allowed to be on the internet and like everything.  you have now been expelled from the web.  sorry.

comics writer david goyer wrote the screenplays.

erin knowing what a flying jib was was not without context.  from their shared look it was clear that andy taught it to her when they were going out.

this sounds like an overly testosteronized, adolescent version of montesquieu's "persian letters"

i read this series in floppy form, starting from the beginning,  and it was a book i read as i went through school, reading the last issue in my senior year of college.  when i finished the last pages, i was close to weeping, 1) because it was a terrifically tear jerking read, and 2) because i had grown up with these…

no "yuuup" is as good as aisha tyler's, in "archer."

doesn't the guy on the far right look like zach quinto?

i like hadag nachash a lot.  they're pretty great.  also, idan reichal.

the great melting pot, as long as you want yankee bean soup or some kind of chowder.

don't you diss mandy patinkin.  prepare to die!

there is nothing to be snarky about with janelle.  she is that awesome.

i also did not recognize her, but i am a HUGE fan of hers from ronna and beverly.
she and jessica chaffin are two of the greatest improvisors ever.

she breast fed her sisters', i.e. her sisters' kids.

zach de la rocha wrote a great poem about OWS, actually.  no, for serious.  http://www.spin.com/article…

this is a great segment idea, but maybe in the future it could involve more discussion between the audience and the author…