Violetcrumbles, tie your hair back. (I've been waiting like 5 years to make that joke.)

Yeah, I mostly chose this one cause the game-playing scenes are so funny. I could take or leave the textbook stealing plot.

I like to imagine Simon was sitting around his house with George Pelecanos one night and off handedly said something innocuous like "There really hasn't been a deep show about the world of porn. Someone could probably do that." Then a drawer jumped open and an HBO Executive popped his head out, yelled "Greenlit!" and…

You can pencil me in for VCR if no first-timers want to claim it.

Putting The Issue Into Perspective

They were planning on having to burn all the books in the library due to the bedbug scare anyways.

Football.

Are you watching the new season of OITNB? (I guess the lack of solid computer device could be a major obstacle there)

Suuuuuure, try telling that to Brian Jazz. Or ol' Sam Classical.

Lots of places have a South.

Like a lot of old school episodic drama shows, Star Trek has a tendency to basically adapt itself to versions of other genres for episodes, barely concealing them behind the sci-fi front. The best episodes may have some higher concepts, but they're not afraid to have, like, a locked room mystery ep or meet some space…

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Golden Wedding.

I'm only thru episode 4, so I can't read your entire post. But so far I love it. I continue to be impressed by how the show brings the best out of so many actresses.

I am one contented white dude.

I went to see Jurassic Park in the theater at a friend's birthday party (possibly a second run theater). I remember thinking it had some cool parts, but as a whole was kind of a letdown. I think I wanted more of the dinosaurs, with like a sympathetic dinosaur hero fighting the other dinosaurs or something. I remember…

In the age of the internet, I feel pretty comfortable saying that our spank banks are too big to fail.

I'm starting to wonder if we should have trusted him with that money.

There's a fortune in the middle of Deep Fried Oreos. It says "You're not going to move for at least the next 20 minutes."

The US Women's Soccer team right now reminds me of basically any time I played an EA Sports video game (soccer, hockey, basketball, etc.) where I had a basic idea of wanting to play as a team that I would immediately abandon in favor of having individual players just try to attack the goal (or basket) because it's so…