There was bad blood between Batt and Weiner. You do not piss off the EP and get to work on the show again.

Fan fact: in a sideline from his day job as a roundly despised public douchebag, John Mayer is also an extremely nerdy wristwatch columnist. Nerdy enough to write sentences like " For instance, they could have used a white gold tang buckle, as they usually do on watches in the $50k range, but they went with a…

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Objectivism, Objectivists claim, is a philosophy of reason, individualism, and science. So naturally the trailer for the adaptation of its airport thriller-cum-bible is a bunch of scary noises and vague oogedy-boogying about Society as talk show hosts intone <3 <3 <3 Ayn Rand's <3 <3 <3 name.

Objectivism, Objectivists claim, is a philosophy of reason, individualism, and science. So naturally the trailer for the adaptation of its airport thriller-cum-bible is a bunch of scary noises and vague oogedy-boogying about Society as talk show hosts intone <3 <3 <3 Ayn Rand's <3 <3 <3 name.

Fables is probably my favorite, though I think a case could be made for pretty much any of the first eleven (and maybe for Collapse into Now).

I've been very happy with this series so far, because I love reading well-researched and -equipped enthusiasts argue passionately for the musicians they love, and grapple with their feelings when those musicians fail them. I was particularly looking forward to Part 4 because I've defended this period of R.E.M. in the…

I hope the poster for S2 of Revenge is Emily Thorne in a red dress and chef hat boiling the Graysons alive in a giant cauldron

"You're not even a top three Jonathan." - Jonathan Franzen, drunken voicemail left in the inboxes of Jonathans Safran Foer, Lethem, Ames, Taylor Thomas, and Joshua Ferris [sic], 3:18-3:42 AM EST, January 7 2012 
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Ys is probably my favorite album of the last decade, and while it's her most impressive record, Have One On Me (which contains '81) is probably more accessible for beginners. The first disc especially.

I got Wolfe, Capote, and maybe a little Dominick Dunne. The title of this episode has to be a reference to Infamous, the Capote biopic released a year after the Hoffman one.