The Buoys— Timothy

My favorite movie of his is Race for the Double Helix. He plays James Watson, Tim Piggott-Smith is Francis Crick, Juliet Stevenson is Rosalyn Franklin, and they all add up to a pretty great little movie. My wife and I watch it every year in the fall on a dreary rainy day.

You might notice that liking the things on my list does not preclude liking the things on your list. That was kinda my point.

I hope this show is a hit, because then Al Madrigal won't be on the Daily Show anymore.

I agree with the short list of things Ellroy favors by the process of elimination (dogs, women without tattoos, restaurants with A ratings). That's a pretty good list. He probably should have stopped there.

Dad!!!

PETA is really going to have a problem with the new Cinnabonobo ad.

That doesn't say much about King's endings, which are terrible more often than not.

Because showing black people living in caves and wearing animal skins would be cultural theft of white history, specifically The Flinstones.

But it was a real house, right? And they were a real family?

… Based on a Book by Sapphire

I like Young Girl as a song, but it is definitely creepy.

It would be interesting to follow the money on the post-mortem Spillane books.  Would I forgo modest literary credit in exchange for an assured big cash payday?  You bet your ass I would.  Well, I guess that is kind of the definition of ghost-writing.

Yeah, Americans are so stupid.

I had no idea that anyone dared to dream a dream of being on the Price is Right.

Remember the Lusitania!

I just checked, and iTunes has Kaylan's book for $25, while Amazon has it on Kindle for $15.  Glad to see that Apple really learned its lesson from the recent price-fixing case.

I was skimming the responses looking to see if someone stood up for Flo and Eddie.  Their "incredivoices" technique was great.  It made Get it On a hit, the same way that it made Springsteen's Hungry Heart a hit years later.

The show continues past the pilot????  Geez— thanks a lot, Todd.

I thought that the Star Trek re-boot was pretty terrible.  Good actors and better than average special effects, but a lousy story.  I was still excited about Into Darkness, until I found out that Cumberbatch was Khan.  That just seemed so lame that I kind of lost interest.  And I think that about does it as far as my…