I think I was the only person in NYC who agreed with Joe Lhota about not shutting down the subway for an hour to save a couple of feral cats.  Those fucking things scream all night long outside my window.  It boggles my mind that it's illegal to poison them.

@LJo1:disqus Correct, all bourbon is whiskey.  Bourbon is made primarily from corn; rye (the most common alternative to bourbon in the US) is made primarily from rye.  But it's all whiskey.

June 16, 2004 was the 100th anniversary of "Bloomsday," the date on which the action of James Joyce's novel Ulysses takes place.  I wrote an email to a literary friend of mine with a tongue-in-cheek encouragement to celebrate the day by doing things that protagonist Leopold Bloom does during the novel, including…

Arnaud's is amazing.  And hit up Hermes Bar for cocktails.

Those beignets are like cocaine.  Just make sure to wipe the powdered sugar off your nose before you leave, or people will think you really have been doing cocaine.

Do you live in Nunavut or something?  Doesn't seem like it should be that cold in the morning yet…

I just liked your comment.  Now it says "1 like" next to the timestamp; click that link and the list of names will come up.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the vehicle pictured has no rear-view mirror?

Yeah this is the most tedious trend in media today, worsting even Hollywood's insistence on franchising every movie that turns a profit.  Hey let's split up the last Harry Potter movie!  And the last Twilight movie!  And let's make three(!) fucking Hobbit movies!

I'll grant you it's open to interpretation, but I don't know what "laying down" would have to do with driving a manual transmission:

I always loved "Automatic":

There's a bunch of X-Files episodes that would have worked here too: Kill Switch, Field Trip, Demons… probably others.  I'd say maybe they were avoiding sci-fi series where an alternate reality would be too likely to occur, except they threw in a Star Trek episode.

In time you'll see the sign, and realize your sin.

My inner 10 year old always thrills to Axl Rose's "Why don't you just… FUCK OFF!" in "It's So Easy."  And of course my actual 10 year old self thrilled to it way back in 1987.

Yeah EWS was my first thought too.  Much as I wish we got to see more Kubrick movies, I love that the last line of dialogue in his last movie is just "Fuck."  Really sums up the movie, too.

The funniest bit in the whole season to me was the narrator of the Scopes Monkey trial segment convincing himself the correct name was "Williams Jenning Bryant" and then saying it over… and over… and over again.  Props to the editor for including what felt like a hundred instances of that mistake.  A someone who went…

This is way too well known to make the show, I think, but the assassination of Julius Caesar would be mine.  I would get sooo lost in the different relationships and the endless backstory of the decline of the Republic.  I would put those editors through their paces.

I actually ditched the Catholicism a long time ago, but I still have a soft spot for Notre Dame.  Don't see them making the title game this year, though.

I was hoping it would be Josh Brolin singing "Daisy."

I bought it because that's a time period I'm mostly ignorant of - I know my Roman history ok (for a non-historian, mind you) and my Middle Ages Europe ok, but from about 500-1000 is mostly a blank.  Seemed like I should find a way to connect those dots.