I've been hoping they get Kyle MacLachlan to play the incumbent mayor in the election subplot. Just a wink that they happen in the same world.

And enough with trying to make Enterprise a terrestrial ship. I came across the beginning of the second movie the other day and it pissed me off all over again.

Ian Holm was always Norrell in my head, but he was already too old when the book was published. Eddie Marsan was awfully good, though, much better than I expected.

The book-Neitherlands as empty city with plaza upon plaza upon plaza with no vegetation seemed like the most CGI-able thing out there in my head as I read it. The changes they made make sense with the other changes they've made, plotwise, though.

Yes, it's mentioned that Plover was molesting Martin, at minimum, but it's handled completely differently. No haunted house, no re-enacting past traumas, etc. It comes near the end after all kinds of other stuff has happened, explaining why the Chatwins were so desperate to get away from Plover. Literally a couple…

I worked in a music/video place in the early '90s and picked up Failure's "Magnified" out of a bin of promos the store wanted to get rid of. I think I got Ween's "Chocolate and Cheese" in the same haul. Two amazing albums I got because major labels were signing bands left and right they had no idea what to do with.…

Nice, I have a '67 Coronet, myself, similar situation. Actually, I might have the money now, but it's three (big, western) states away right now. I *love* those B-bodies. Those early R/Ts were scarily serious machines, I'd believe that they had to de-tune it.

Oh, be easy on the Blues Brothers, they were clearly spoofing the car chases then in excess. Don't blame them if they became the standard for a bit (and Elwood was no slouch).

I'm partial to late '60s muscle, but, damn, that chase has two of the sweetest cars Detroit has ever produced. My favorite Mustang and my favorite Charger. They ugly up the Dodge to make it more menacing, but that's fine, it's playing a menacing part. The bit that rings false, though, is Bullitt in his Mustang…

They'll try to have Brett Favre on as a guest, but he'll keep slipping and falling all over the place.

Speaking of "Slacker," "Tangerine" reminded me a lot more of Linklater's ultra-low budget first film than did Smith's. Both used small, cheap cameras to get into the small corners of their worlds and tell stories about outsiders. Both really loved their characters, no matter how weird or grating they could be.

That frustration is shared by Avery's attorneys, who were barred by the judge from speculating about anyone else during the trial. They had to dance around that throughout.

Maybe "Bernie" was the sine qua non of Jack Black roles and he's just done from here on out.

Yep, there is always good stuff to stream on both Netflix and Hulu, but they make me dig so hard to find it. Roku's cross-platform searching helps if I know what I'm looking for, but neither does a good job of recognizing the weird shit I watch and suggesting more weird shit I'd be interested in.

If only that vindictive prick weren't truly gone, and not driving his fine state into the ground.

That's what makes it inessential, I think. It couldn't decide if it was an episodic show about Hodiak or a serial about Manson, and failed at both.

Unless you're really starved for stuff to watch, or a completest, stop after season 4, season 5 tops. 4 is the emotional peak. I enjoyed 5 more than most, but it falls squarely in the "inessential" category. 6 is bad and 7 and 8 deal with the fallout from 6, ending with one of the cheaper finales on record.

An ancestor of mine from the late 19-century married three sisters in succession (twice widowed). Especially in smaller, isolated farming communities it was sometimes the most logical thing to do.

I liked her, and I like what she's doing in her new job. It's all good.

The way I look at it, the fleet was running on resources borrowed from whatever they had at the start, and they'd pretty much run out. Galactica's back was broken and the rest of the fleet wasn't much better off.