The reviews and the discussions are so much better than the actual show.  After an appropriate amount of episode-bashing, the comments often turn to serious politics.  Talked much more about Citizens United there than I thought was possible.

I would like to remind you of Neal, the Bigfoot-seminar-giving troll hunter.

You.  Monster.

Sounds like Les Winan needs to do more thinkin', and less whinin'!

Here's something fun to think about: Mad Men's final season and Breaking Bad's final season will be competing against each other at the 2014 Emmy's.

That's what the money's for!  Bitch!

I'm saving the newest Emmy podcast for next week, but yeah, after something like a 10 month break between episodes, I'm just glad they've already topped their entire 2012 output.  The Mad Men/Gandolfini episode was great, the guests add a lot, especially Sims, and I like that I don't have to listen to old episodes…

I haven't seen this one yet but I have seen all the Black lists and Latino lists.  What those taught me is that black people are more interesting than Hispanic people.  We'll see where gay people fall on the continuum.

FUCK YOU, THE KILLING

Movies:  In In the Loop, the scene in which he and the assistant secretary of state use a child's toy to calculate necessary troop numbers.  Twelve!

It felt like after 2012, with really strong roles in Killng Them Softly, Zero Dark Thirty, and Not Fade Away, he was finally getting back into the spotlight.  He absolutely had a Best Supporting turn in him in the future.  Pretty upset by this…

Two days before a friend's wedding, in which I was an usher, he had a very modest bachelor party at his dad's house.  Just the wedding party and older relatives hanging out, drinking and smoking cigars.  After many beers, we were all telling stories about the groom in a circle that included the bride's father.  I…

I pulled a hamstring last week and a horrific-looking dark bruise rose up around my knee a few days ago.  I went to the doctor expecting the worst, especially since my insurance has a $5000 deductible (my own decision).  Turns out it's just a strain!

Watched Bronson for the first time last night.  The second-billed actor in that movie should be Tom Hardy's dong.

I went on a Vegas trip in the throes of a pretty severe gut infection caused by antibiotics.  The antibiotics I had been prescribed to cure it had strict no-alcohol-consumption side effects, such that if I drank while on them, I'd react as if I was taking Anabuse.  The infection was bad enough that my desire to cure…

I would agree, but I haven't yet figured out how to avoid the sliminess when I'm making it myself.

My friend claims his Big Green Egg essentially changed his life for the better.  He and his wife grill/smoke nearly every night now.

The Pump Room sounds like an area of the mansion in Eyes Wide Shut.

Eh, she seems annoyingly strident in her environmentalism.  We get it, the bees are dying.

Tonight, I'm pretty sure I saw Fred Willard's balls.