As someone who works in TV (meaning I'm an office production assistant—so take this as you you will):

Lily got to drag Barney away from the "Stand by Me" duet. Twice. That whole scene was a classic bit of Newsradio style blocking becoming comedy brilliance.

Britain started the slave trade, and didn't have as many race issues (though they certainly did have some) as the USA because they didn't have as large a black population. But tell the black, Indian and Arab populations of Britain (and, hell, the Irish) that it's the more progressive country and that it doesn't have…

Beautiful day out there. Perfect cane weather!

Sidestepping the instigation, they already had released it. This is just a new transfer with more special features. Also, Blu-Ray.

I think GOB feeding the seal a fish and a cat ending up in there as well was in season 1. Of course the whole seal bit was for certain introduced in season one ("I sell seals! Why can't you remember that!").

The first episode I saw (and still a favorite) was Marta Complex. It was a double bill night, and Beef Consomme immediately followed it ("Thank you mon frere. That's French for brother. I took four years of Spanish!.") I was hooked from that point on.

Lexicondevil (and this might be the most appropriate post you've ever had, considering your handle): I'd agree with you if it were THE punk of punks. A punk of punks, however, sounds to me like a grouping.

wolfmansRazor: if I could favorite that comment, I would. Genius.

I see Lovecraft In Brooklyn as fallen prey in the comments to the thing many other have commented on accidentally doing to the article.

I always read it as being all in his head, but a friend of mine in college whose opinion I really respect always said no, it was real (except for "Feed me one stray cat" and the outrageous violence after that), and he got way with it simply because everyone is self involved and look exactly the same. Really, there's…

I recently designed my business card, and when I showed the design to a few people to get their opinion more than a few of them said "I like it. It reminds me of American Psycho." I don't know if that's a good thing.

My favorite scene is the one Scott mentions disliking for it's ironic use of a great song. I think the smash cut of Bateman moodily and creepily peeling off the herbal face mask (as his voiceover says he is not real, only illusory plays, along with a moody score) to "Walking on Sunshine" is hilarious, culminating in…

I get what you mean about the ending of Fight Club (book) being a cop out, but not entirely. There's that last chapter…

"Judas priest as an exclamation in place of "Jesus Christ" is from 1914"
- Found here: http://www.etymonline.com/i…

I like that the word "underscore" is in Cookie Monster's vocabulary. And "deference."

Please tell me: Yeah, the public transit point only really works for New York, Chicago and DC (maybe San Francisco, though it can be a pain in the ass there), but everything else stands for almost all big cities. Los Angeles, despite it's rep, has incredible numbers of cultural institutions, for example. Diversity of…

Also re: Malingerer's list, specifically #14: An area I loved to get food from in NYC: E 6th Street between 1st and 2nd ave, aka "Curry Row"—tons and tons of Indian restaurants, many quite good. An area I love to get food from in L.A.: Koreatown, with it's Korean BBQ, Soon Tofu houses and Korean hot wings (love that…

Malingerer: amen, my man. first thing to pop into my mind was art museums and independent movie theaters. Growing up in NYC, living now in L.A., I can't imagine life without one of either group of The Film Forum and the Angelica or the New Beverly and the Arclight.

I grew up in Brooklyn myself, and yeah, Warren Oates, I'm with you—it's amazing how many neighborhoods have utterly changed around me. I mean, I grew up in Park Slope, but I remember when it was a decidedly middle/working class neighborhood surrounding by poorer areas before it quadrupled in both wealth and size,…