He looks pretty much like he always did. Saggy-er, sure. But he always looked middle-aged and glum. Clips of this new record are available on Amazon. They sound just like them in the '80's without any hooks. If the sound is magic to you that might not matter. I think I liked the hooks. One addition to the…

Such a terrible show
Why am I still watching? I really have no idea. "Everyone in front of and behind the camera is just trying to wheeze their way to the finish line, so they can get started looking for another job." Yes. I don't know if I've ever seen a fight scene as badly shot as the one in the parking garage.…

I hope there's a South Park episode about Osama in paradise. I don't think he'd really like it. Everyone's deathless? No one can be threatened? There are a lot of non-Wahabbis? There's nothing for him to do, and nobody's making videos anymore.

Max Headroom
is the. first show I remember being sad that there was no more

Part I
He may have had a better chance of making his money back in DVDs and ancillary if he hadn't announced that the movie is now the orphaned first part of a trilogy that will never be finished. There must be some business genius reason for saying that that I don't understand.

Sacks Romana, in fairness to the writers, mercury was famous for causing madness in hatters in the 19th century. Thus the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carrol. But those guys were walking dead, yes. So I like your idea that the group wasn't actually mercury poisoned, but on something else like mold or mushrooms that you…

There's no mercury in paint, you're probably thinking of lead. Having googled, apparently all heavy metal poisoning is gross, and the mental symptoms are towards the end of the death spiral, so it's not a great cause for temporary insanity. But I just love them in the white room in straitjackets. Does anybody know…

Re: food deserts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

It's not stretching. That's the least apt possible description. It's condensing days into 40 some-odd minutes.

Hush your mouth! I never want to think of Nate Fisher again. It's totally wrong to giggle and clap when someone, even a loathsome TV character, strokes out and dies, but that's what I did. Fortunately Peter Krause is so good as Adam that I never confuse the two.

Stan and his employees are likely members of the Teamsters. I don't know if that's where they're going with this, but of course the Teamsters (not all of them) have a long history with racketeering. Also, that could loop back into the political part of the story, with Thompson needing the labor vote controlled by…

I thought the ending scene opened up the possibility that Bell and Walter were wrong when they assumed that Olivia was just locked up in her own subconscious while Bell was running her body. I don't know if it was ever addressed where Bell thought he was between the time of his death, in another universe, and his…

I think Jewel Staite would be good as Laura (Shadow's late but mobile wife).

This isn't up on Hollywood Forever's site yet. There's a show up later in June, but not this one. It sounds too good to be true - this music in a cemetery. Please be for real.

Michael Mann AND Paul Haggis, that's OK? I don't have a good feeling about it at all.

There is still a big goth subculture in Mexico, parts of alto Mexico like my neighborhood, and, Google says, Spain. There could maybe be a fresh enough take on The Crow with goth + Mexican death culture to justify a remake. However, casting a greasy slice of anglo canned ham like Bradley Cooper in the lead would…

People get violently angry, you should call the police. If you mean people get vehemently angry, that's different. Didn't you say you're a teacher?

I don't know what you mean exactly. But he certainly contributed to the incredible clusterfuck of funding from ballot initiatives in California whereby we came to pay for an anti-smoking ad during this year's Superbowl, and millions in television ads just celebrating the success of the great California anti-smoking…

Agreed. I don't know what the school food is like in Chicago. But allowing a cafeteria trade in cartoon-branded fructose could give parents less choice than they think they have. The principal's explanation was just that she saw kids with only chips and sodas for lunch. That sucks too.

The show-and-tell of LAUSD meals was good television, for sure. I was still picturing old fashioned canned then warmed institutional slop. I see that it's worse now.