How was The Wire big?  That show got Luck-level ratings, and the only people that loved it when it was on were mostly critics.  It didn't become a big part of the culture until after it was over.  Mad Men's never been a show with huge ratings, having averaged a series best two and a quarter million viewers for the 4th…

If I had to guess, it would be the color of santorum.

Goddamn, I envy you.  For watching Deadwood for the first time, that is, not John Carter.

Angry warehouse dancing equals a win.  I've never seen Footloose, but I'm assuming that it's played for laughs there, too.

Continued Mad Men marathon, in hopes of catching up in time for the new season.  Between that, Game of Thrones, and Bob's Burgers, looking forward to TV bliss on April Sundays.  Three episodes left in season 3.  Poor Sal.  At least AIDS is still hanging out in Africa.

Gum and nuts, together at last.

I was physically ill after reading those chapters.  I didn't think for a second that Arya had been killed, but it was still brutal nonetheless.  I can't wait to see that scene filmed.  It's already so cinematic with the drunkenness and the drums.

Cersei, while awful, at least has some motives beyond pure malevolence.  She loves her children and she loves her brother, and she correctly feels the best way to protect them both is to advance her family at the expense of all others.

Pretty appropriate that the deus ex machina was a sky baby.  Nicely done, Katims.

I take it back.  All that sexual anticipation was making him dance like a jittery seven year old.

Drew dancing is making me sad.  Dude just got laid, pick your game up a little bit.

I guess Starz is officially leaving Netflix streaming at the end of the month because there a crap-ton of movies expiring on Wednesday.  I watched 7 of them over the weekend, plus the last few episodes of Party Down:

There is so little catharsis in Clash of Kings, it's kinda ruining my day to think about it.

I read all the ASoIaF books over the summer, and even though its the shortest, Feast for Crows took me the longest to read.  I had blasted through Storm of Swords pretty quickly and Feast just didn't have that propulsive force going forward.  I'd probably like it better on a re-read, but at this point looking back, I…

You and I, FigPlucker, are of a mind.  Midnight in Paris might have been my most-hated movie from last year.  Best Original Screenplay for a bunch of stock characters coming to a conclusion that could have been formulated by a high school sophomore.  Maybe I'm just anti-Semitic…

You think I'm gonna kid about spins??!!

It is, although that's not the newest season 2 trailer.  Find the newest one with a Varys voiceover.  Good stuff.

May he reign for 1000 years.

L'il Carmine Lupertazzi.  Come on, Excitable, you made me name the reference.  Ya blew it.

Ah, yes.  The sacred and the propane.