The opening bit can be hit or miss but the interview is almost always great. Maron is anything but an idiot. I really like the ones where he's talking with a comedian from a completely different realm than his own, and the ways he tries to figure them out. I haven't listened to the Michael Ian Black episode yet, but…

Yeah, I liked it for a few episodes, but there's a point where I just don't find assholes finding ever more creative ways to express their assholishness entertaining anymore. The same thing happened for me with Curb Your Enthusiasm and South Park.

Only if you're comically robotic, insincere, thin-skinned and wear funny underwear.

Earlier this season on Fringe there was a character on the run in a Subaru Forester exactly like the one I drive. Since Subaru isn't a sponsor, they digitally removed all the badging when showing the vehicle directly from behind. The rear door just looked weird with nothing on it. To top it off, they didn't remove…

Anna Torv's an Aussie. Sometimes her accent slips in weird ways.

I sort of love how Fringe does product placement. It's usually thuddingly obvious, but done where it doesn't matter if it pulls me out of the show a bit. I treat it like another easter egg. Spot the Observer, there's a lens flare, they're using Ford's in-dash navigation system to get somewhere, etc.

I think the emergence of full-season DVDs, Netflix, Hulu, Netflix streaming, etc, render these sorts of comparisons problematic at best. It wasn't that long ago, but X-Files aired in a completely different environment as Fringe. To be exact, X-Files (and Buffy) were at the very earliest edge of where we are now.

You should see my fuckin' cook outs, man. When I was back in Seattle, I had the goddamn spoon man from the Soundgarden videos coming to my shit.

I saw the ads for this on TV and was totally uninterested. It looks like Salt or somesuch. Then I heard that it was one of Soderbergh's crowd-pleasers and got instantly excited (I like Soderbergh's non-crowd-pleasers, too; he's one of those filmmakers where I know he's going to do something interesting. Even if I…

Damn, I love this show, happy to see it get the treatment. I watched it week to week when it was new and then picked up the DVDs for cheap and re-watched it binge-style a year or two ago. It just never seemed slow to me. A great hangout show, indeed. I loved John from Cincinnati as well, so that's probably just how my…

Norton's show is different than the American ones being discussed in that he usually has all his guests out at once and counts on them to at least somewhat interact with each other as well as him. There always seems to be one that gets left out, though, and I like seeing him try and draw them in.

Napster is nowhere near stone-age. It's at least past the agricultural revolution. Stone-age would be downloading games from a BBS on a C-64 over a 300 baud modem.

Yeah, I immediately thought of the Jamaican place with the great food but bad staff and lousy presentation. The staff was the owner's family (direct and adopted) and they sort of rolled in when they felt like it, worked as hard as they wanted. It was fun to see him guilt trip them all about how they were taking…

Back when The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover came out in theaters, the local movie critic who had both a newspaper and TV gig raved about the movie without really describing what it was like or about. The suburban multiplex I saw it in was nearly full.

You could pretty much start by sampling the Moffat episodes in each season, they're consistently excellent. "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" from the first season was the point for me where New Who looked like it could be really good.

The World's Fastest Indian had a fun motorcycle race set on a beach that was non-boring.

Are you sure she's wearing panties?

Yep, timey wimey, neat as a bow.

If you're covering American Horror, you can hardly skip Lovecraft. I'd love to see a well-done creeping dread, Things Man Was Not Meant To Know type of Lovecraft series as opposed to the Cthulhu stuff (though it would be fun for Cthulhu to show up  in the shadows like Rubber Man did in the Halloween episode). Murphy…

Stephen Root, awesome in so many ways.