I find it strange to have an article considering the business model of HBO that doesn't even mention boxing.  Boxing is a huge cash cow for HBO—it's their football, really, and it brings in a lot of subscribers.  Add to that the fact that they don't have to deal with studios and therefore can keep all that lovely DVD…

They played the trailer before Django on Xmas day, along with that Tom Cruise sci fi thing, the Franco-Rogen apocalypse comedy, that really shitty looking Hostel-guy horror movie set in Chile, something else I've forgotten, and the new Die Hard.  So that's how I heard about it and it looked terrible.

Lurking is the way of the internet.  I read the reviews for the shows I watch (and from now on I'll be better at clicking "I Watched This" though I'm not fond of grading episodes) but I rarely comment.  By the time I've watched the episode someone in the comments has said what I would have anyway, so I just "like" and…

I admit I'm pretty meh about An Innocent Man generally.

Vienna gets played a lot but it would have been welcome here, or Movin' Out (or god, ANYTHING off The Stranger that isn't … that song).  Maybe something off 52nd St like Big Shot or My Life?  These were huge singles off some of the biggest albums of his career; I'm not talking deep album cuts here.

Man, that Billy Joel selection is ROUGH. I really like him but I don't much care for any of those songs.

Man, that Billy Joel selection is ROUGH. I really like him but I don't much care for any of those songs.

Well, Gail says in her blog that it wasn't a unanimous decision, and that she wasn't one of the votes for Kristen to go home.  So I bet if that truth had come out, Gail would have pushed harder for Josie to go home—and Tom certainly implies that he would have gone along with that.  Padma might not have changed her…

Totally cosign everything you just said.  Since I can't have my planned Christmas Leo double-feature, I'll just put Gatsby on my packed with action (Star Trek, Iron Man) May movie schedule.

Totally cosign everything you just said.  Since I can't have my planned Christmas Leo double-feature, I'll just put Gatsby on my packed with action (Star Trek, Iron Man) May movie schedule.

Oh god this movie is so terrible.  And it isn't just that Davey is seriously unlikable, or how badly everyone treats Whitey, or the horrific stereotypes including Whitey's poor sister.  What really slammed me was that the kid is orphaned and then because he doesn't have any relatives who can take him in, he ends up…

Oh god this movie is so terrible.  And it isn't just that Davey is seriously unlikable, or how badly everyone treats Whitey, or the horrific stereotypes including Whitey's poor sister.  What really slammed me was that the kid is orphaned and then because he doesn't have any relatives who can take him in, he ends up…

Carla got to the finale of her season basically by making pie all the time. At this point everyone going on TC should have a rock-solid dessert in their back pocket because if you can pull it off, the judges will notice.

Carla got to the finale of her season basically by making pie all the time. At this point everyone going on TC should have a rock-solid dessert in their back pocket because if you can pull it off, the judges will notice.

Socially acceptable by whom? and how can you order something without talking? and that's better than checking your watch to see how the movie is pacing? and if you get caught you deserve to be shamed on the internet?

Socially acceptable by whom? and how can you order something without talking? and that's better than checking your watch to see how the movie is pacing? and if you get caught you deserve to be shamed on the internet?

I'm still having trouble understanding how talking and texting during a movie is terrible, but having table service of a beer and a hamburger isn't.

I'm still having trouble understanding how talking and texting during a movie is terrible, but having table service of a beer and a hamburger isn't.

I spent some of the morning trying to think of something I wanted less, and couldn't come up with anything.

I spent some of the morning trying to think of something I wanted less, and couldn't come up with anything.